Audible launches new feature that allows you to read your book

Audible is launching a groundbreaking caller characteristic that lets you bask your book by... reference it.

The audiobook app has started touting “Read & Listen,” which lets you publication on arsenic your book is publication aloud.

“Now astatine Audible, you tin publication pinch your eyes too,” said Chief Product Officer Andy Tsao.

"Audiobooks count arsenic reference ... Read & Listen gives book lovers nan champion of some worlds."

Tempting though it whitethorn beryllium to disregard this arsenic different lawsuit of instrumentality reinvention, it turns retired that Audible whitethorn beryllium onto thing here.

Research shows that this type of “immersive reading” supposedly boosts retention and makes it easier for group to sorb a book’s content, which tin beryllium useful for students and those learning a caller language.

Audible’s ain stats show that group who “listen and publication astatine nan aforesaid clip are amongst its astir progressive members,” reports Android Police.

The premise down Read & Listen is basic: if you ain some nan e-book and audiobook versions of a title, you should beryllium capable to bask them together astatine nan aforesaid time.

There are immoderate similarities pinch nan Whispersync for Voice characteristic successful nan Kindle app, which syncs your advancement betwixt nan 2 truthful you tin move betwixt reference and listening; however, now you tin do some astatine once.

When a book is compatible pinch Read & Listen, a elemental reference interface will appear, pinch a moving item that tracks which words are appearing successful nan narration.

For immoderate readers, this whitethorn evoke puerility memories of tracing on nan words arsenic a genitor publication a bedtime communicative aloud.

The characteristic is launching pinch hundreds of thousands of titles successful English, Spanish, German, Italian, and French.

It’s not yet wide available, only being rolled retired to prime Audible users crossed nan US; erstwhile it arrives, nan app will scan which of nan books successful your postulation has a compatible e-book, and springiness you directions to bargain it straight from Amazon truthful you tin publication your book arsenic it’s narrated aloud.

Audiobooks person skyrocketed successful fame successful caller years, and successful 2018, University College London researchers recovered that listening to them had a greater affectional effect than watching films aliases reference nan written word.

Scenes from 8 apical films and books were tested connected subjects, including A Game of Thrones, The Girl connected nan Train, Pride and Prejudice and The Silence of nan Lambs.

That investigation did not screen nan affectional effect of reference and listening simultaneously, which will soon beryllium offered to Read & Listen customers.

Audible is nan largest shaper and retailer of audiobooks successful nan U.S., and launched successful 1995 earlier becoming a wholly owned subsidiary of Amazon successful 2008.

Its existent catalogue includes much than 200,000 titles, pinch everything from H. G. Wells to Prince Harry.