audiobook

noun au·dio·book \ ˈȯ-dē-ō-ˌbu̇k \

Updated on: 11 Apr 2018

Definition of audiobook

: a recording of a book or magazine being read aloud

Recent Examples of audiobook from the Web

Reading aloud to another is like a personal audiobook!

— david g. allan, CNN, "Reading is fundamental -- to the family's happiness," 3 Apr. 2018
Hardcover and paperback fiction books, audiobooks, VHS tapes, CDs and DVDs will also be marked half off.

— linda mcintosh, sandiegouniontribune.com, "Women's Club plans fashion show," 30 Mar. 2018
Podcast help The Podbean app can help podcast fans find new content to listen to with suggestions based on what users have listened to in the past, and offers free audiobooks of classic works.

— staff, The Christian Science Monitor, "Top Picks: Superorganism's album, the documentary 'Jane,' and more," 23 Mar. 2018
The cofounders trained deep neural networks on hundreds of speech samples to produce a bank of customizable near-perfect voices for use in audiobooks and voiceovers.

— sandra upson, WIRED, "At Y Combinator's Demo Day, The Age of Overpromises Is Over," 20 Mar. 2018
But whatever profundity King might have intended for his inaugural audiobook exclusive is hard to find amid the story’s humdrum execution.

— kira bindrim, Newsweek, "Stephen King Audiobook ‘Drunken Fireworks' Fizzles," 5 July 2015
There’s a lot of demand from indie authors interested in making audiobooks, and this new proposal from Smashwords and Findaway Voices would answer that demand.

— shannon liao, The Verge, "These two indie platforms are partnering to help authors produce audiobooks at affordable prices," 23 Mar. 2018
An audiobook version is also available on Audible.com, read by actors Jim Parsons, Jesse Tyler Ferguson, John Lithgow and RuPaul.

— mike scott, NOLA.com, "John Oliver published a children's book to troll Mike Pence. It's now a bestseller.," 22 Mar. 2018
As the New York Times reports: The tale also comes in the form of an audiobook voiced by a string of celebrities including Jim Parsons as Marlon Bundo and John Lithgow as the stinkbug, as well as Ellie Kemper, Jesse Tyler Ferguson and RuPaul.

— luke darby, GQ, "Mike Pence's Gay Rabbit Is the Newest Kid-Lit Sensation," 21 Mar. 2018

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