About Talking Books
Talking Books are digitally published books that can play recordings while highlighting sentences.
Recording Audio in Bloom
You can record an audio recording of your book directly in Bloom.
Importing Recordings
You can import prerecorded audio recordings into Bloom.
Recording Audio by Text Box
By default, Bloom records audio sentence-by-sentence. You can also record (or import) the audio for an entire text box, and split the recording into sentence-sized chunks.
Installing Aeneas
To split a text-box recording into sentence-sized chunks, you must first install a helper program called Aeneas.
Fine-Tune Audio Timings
If you need to fine-tune the timing of the split recording, you can do with a timings file and the help of an audio editor.
Format Talking Book Highlights
You can change the color the Bloom uses for highlighting the text being played by a Talking Book.
Highlighted Text Styles in Talking Books
Publish a Talking Book
Bloom gives you many ways to publish your Talking Book.