DIY-Audiobooks & Podcasts

Your words, your voice - transforming your writing into audio: A 5 Step Fast Start Guide

Covering the 5 Essentials to Recording Good Audio: what-you-need-to-know areas to start right.

Hello there fellow writer!

Here you will find out about recording your written words using your own voice.

Your recordings can be used in:

• Newsletters

• Podcasts

• Audiobooks

• Videos 

Maybe you dream of hosting your own podcast show or narrating your own books, but are worried about sounding like an amateur and turning people off.

Join us to learn my 5 Essentials for Recording Good Audio.

1. Time — How much time is involved?

2. Terms — What are all these new terms? 

3. Tech — What equipment do I need? 

4. Space — Where should my recording space be? 

5. Sound — How fast should I talk? 

The 5 ToddCasts get you started FREE, and before you know it, you’ll go from silence to sound !

Free subscribers get

• The Essentials Toddcasts

• Full access to the newsletter with tips and helps

• Additional monthly podcasts and 

• Article Directory - a Table of Article Contents

Paid Subscribers have access to

• Additional occasinal ToddCasts covering Essentials in-depth

• Subscriber only weekly helps and hints articles

• Monthly Chats

• First Recorded Audio Evaluation

  Subscribe

My starting point

Way back when, my day jobs were in radio broadcasting and commercials, and I didn’t know beans about audiobooks, podcasts or home recording.

So when I was invited by a fellow broadcaster to take a masterclass for audiobooks in 2016 I jumped in. Today have books on Audible, Audiobooks.com, on Chirp, on Spotify, plus I do voiceover for explainer videos, gaming apps, phone systems, events announcements, commercials. And I’m the Voice of Epaphras Prays on Substack and Spotify

Mostly because I took the ACX Masterclass from David H. Lawrence XVII and Dan O’Day and grew from side hustle to regular gigs. (And I recommend them to you).

You probably don’t want to do all that, just record your own writing. If so, then you’re in the right place.

Want me to be your narrator instead? Start Here on my Audiobook Page for more.

NOTE: I’m also available for radio as needed. Find my Radio Resource page here

What’s Next?

By now you must be thinking: Is my voice good enough to record like this? How long will learning it take? What will it all cost? 

Decide if you want the tortoise process or the hare pace:

Tortoise = $ubscribe here for weekly articles

Hare=personal live video sessions

• We’ll go through the 5 Recording Essentials one at a time.

• We’ll let you see and hear about the what and the how.

• We’ll do 5 Zoom sessions at your pace: 5 days if you’re in a hurry or 5 weeks to give you time to absorb the material and get that step setup.

Let’s get started

First, follow or subscribe so you’ll be notified when new episodes drop, listen through them and either:

• Subscribe ($) for more Toddcast Instructions (the tortise ) 

OR

• Learn more about my training and coaching

My Coaching

Sound good?

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I can’t wait to hear👂you,

Todd

toddeflin.com

(that E as in Edward, F as in Frank, L-I-N)