Posts Tagged ‘Christian Audio Books’
A great software that can generate loads of kids audio books instantly!
Long ago, I used to have a software to convert text to audio. Its name was ReadAloud and it was open source.
I don’t know if anyone has tried this software (that still exists by the way), but it used to be quite painful to listen to the robot voice reading the text. You could barely listen to the voice more than 2 minutes, and you had to be extremely concentrated to be able to understand what was read.
Last week, while wondering if there had been any advance in that kind of software, I did some research, and I came across a lot of titles that pretend to read text. I did download all those I could find on the first two pages of google, and I can say that there has been a lot of advance in the text reading voices software field.
Now, instead of the robotic voice, the software titles come with many natural sounding voice options. The reading can be boring if the material we listen to is very long, but for a short kid story book or for classical children audio books, the result could be acceptable.
Below, I am including the link for one particular software that caught my attention because of the many options it has. For instance:
- It can convert any text including pdf and web pages to an audio format (mp3)
- It has many voice options, including american english, british english, french, spanish and german among other languages
- One of the optional versions (the educational one) comes with 1000 free ebooks
- One of the optional versions (the educational one) allows the creation of audio books with background music, echo, etc. which is great
This kind of software could be a great resource for parents looking:
- To easily and freely create children audio books for their kids of numerous kinds
- Improve their kids language skills
Please try it and give me your opinion.
Read Aloud
Christian Audio Books and Spiritual Development
In the hectic times we live or that we put ourselves into, and because we are busy all the time doing things for our work, for our home, for our family, and for our kids, we usually do not have enough time to develop ourselves spiritually. Throughout our life, we can become very rich financially, we can amass a large amount of friends and acquaintances, we can even reach to a point where we are at our best personally, but what it is of our spiritual development.
On Sundays, many times, we look for all kinds of excuses not to go to church. At times even we go, we are busy thinking about what will come next during our day, we get easily distracted by the voice of the priest, or what this and that person is wearing. This is especially true on occasions when we go to the church to witness the marriage of a friend or close person. In summary, we reach times where we are completely away from our christian and parish life, and by the same token from our christian values.
This emptiness in our spiritual life is not compensated for elsewhere. We barely read the bible, we rarely meditate, and on top of all that, our children follow our mediocre spiritual life, unconsciously by following our example. We later wonder why so many kids turn into delinquents nowadays, and we even tend to push away the thought that this may happen to our kids. In one sentence, we mask our eyes, and we make ourselves believe that things do not exist because we are not seeing them, while we have our eyes masked in the first place.
What if we can turn all this round in an easy way, not cumbersome, and rather easy to follow? What if we get ourselves to listen to christian audio books for a fixed number of minutes each day? What if we make it a habit not only to listen to christian audio books ourselves, but rather to play them or to play the bible for 5 or 10 minutes each day in family, and later meditate together about what we have just listened to? Would not that be an enriching experience both for ourselves and for our kids? Would not that put back on the right track to spirituality and self-fulfillment?
Today, we have incredible means to develop ourselves spiritually, in a fun and easy way, while involving all the family, and benefiting immensely from the experience. This can be done through the tens of christian audio book titles that we can find pretty everywhere, so we really have no excuse to remain on a dead road spiritually.
Children Christian Audio Books
Children Christian Audio Books are today one of the most important sources to teach kids about Christian values and the history of Christianity. Why?
- Because nowadays, children don’t like preaching
- Because priests and religion men are getting further and further from children and families
- Because children love stories and chistian audio books are told in the same way a story is told
Furthermore, kids tend to learn the stories they love by heart, and this has become a certainty with the advent of childrens audiobooks, especially that these can be played over and over, in the car, on mp3 players, at sleep time, etc.
So today is the good time to convert your children to chicken soup christian stories, instead of violent mangas and useless stories that are played all the time on TV and radio stations. This way, you are sure to put your loved kids on the right track, and with the large choice of suitable christian audiobooks available in the libraries and online, parents have no excuse today not to let their children indulge in the life beneficious christian audio books, and this is not only directed to christian parents, because christian audio books can suit all children from all religions.
I think I need an easy set up audiobook system for my children sleep time
Yesterday, my kids asked me to read them a story before sleep. Usually my wife takes care of that. To convince me, my oldest kid said “a small small story”. So I said to myself ”Let’s try it, this will take max 10 minutes”. I got up to choose a book, and they began asking for this and this and this story. No wonder, they know them all for having heard them more than one time, which reinforced my feeling that I needed to set up an easy system for playing childrens audio books at their room.
Since I didn’t know the story they chose, I couldn’t tell it by heart, so I began reading it page after page, line after line, like a machine… It was so boring!!! Not the story. The fact of reading it… Each time I was turning the page, I was trying to guess how many pages I still had to go through. At the same time, even though I was tring to sound interested by the kids audiobook, I was feeling my kids getting away with their thoughts, because of my monotonous tone. My wife who heard me reading told me later my voice was so boring that she wondered how the children were still awake by the end of the story.
What a relief it was when the story ended, maybe ten minutes later, but ten minutes that looked like an eternity for me, and maybe for the children as well. So, today, I have made up my mind. I will install a portable system in the kids room to play audiobooks at sleep time, and I will select a given set of chidren stories for them, and also a set of christian audio books to inspire them, some paragraphs from the bible, some relaxing music too.
I will tell you later how the experience will turn out!