Once again, Nokia Beta Labs released a nice application, Audio Books. This application allows us to play audio book stored in AMR-WB, which is codec optimized for speech.
Nokia Audiobooks is a beta concept that enables you to enjoy audiobooks while on the go. It uses a highly efficient audio compression technology optimized for voice (AMR-WB, 3GPP). The concept consists of a player application for S60 (Nokia Audiobook Player), and an audio converter tool for PC (Nokia Audiobook Manager). Whereas traditional music player applications are optimized for music, Nokia Audiobook Player is optimized for audiobooks, enabling you to browse chapters, set bookmarks, and automatically continue from where you stopped listening last time. you can easily store multiple audiobooks on your memory card - and still have plenty of capacity left for the other things (like pictures and videos) you find important.
Where can we get audio books?
- Firstly, you can download some sample files from Nokia Beta Labs.
- You can convert your current audio books (if you have ones) from CD or other digital formats, such MP3 and WAV. Nokia has released a tool to convert audio books, called Nokia Audiobook Manager. You can download it from the same link below.
- There are many public domain audio books available at LibriVox.