Today I was visiting a site that has a selection of sound effects and music, and it made me wonder how many people have ever made their own Audio Book?  With the technology that is available to record and save your recordings, then mix with background sound or music, it doesn’t seem impossible…I’m going to do a little research and see if I can find some “how too” information for you in my next post.

I remember when my grandmother was ill years ago, and bedridden, living hours away, I wanted to do something to cheer her, but was busy mothering young children.  The idea occurred to me that I could read to her, so I made my own audio tapes to my grandmother, talking to her and reading to her from books.  I loved doing this…and at that time recording was done with a small tape recorder and cassette tapes.

Now to think what I could do with my computer, recordable CD’s, and some music and sound affects from a site that offers free sound effects, music, and economical downloads, just tickles my imagination. I guess there are things that would have to be looked into, for example, I couldn’t just read ANY book and offer it for sale because of copyright laws, etc., but if it was something I had written myself, and wanted to makes my own audio of it, then it should be okay.

Thanks to audiomicro.com for inspiring my curiosity, I’m going to go look around a bit and see what I can find any information doing an audio book, and hope to be back with a post for you soon.

Enjoy the rest of the weekend!