Amazon-owned audiobook firm Audible has launched over 100 audiobooks on Alexa totally free. Customers will be capable of entry these titles totally free by way of a voice assistant. The buyer solely must depend on voice instructions for Alexa to begin studying these books.
Audiobooks may be accessed with a voice command like “Alexa, read Sherlock Holmes” or say the identical factor in Hindi. The consumer has to specify the identify of the e-book that must be learn. Keep in thoughts that solely 100 titles are free, for the remainder of the audiobooks, you continue to want an Audible subscription.
According to Audible, free titles embrace a choice of instances from Sherlock Holmes, The Complete Chanakya Niti, A Tale of Two Cities, 21 Best Stories by Prem Chand, Shiv Purana, and extra. There are additionally another free audiobooks on the market, The Mystic Sinner by Proyashi Barua, On the Double by Tanushree Poddar.
Audiobooks may be accessed on the Amazon Echo and Fire TV vary and different Alexa built-in gadgets. The firm plans so as to add many extra titles within the coming months.
Customers may also get a seamless, hands-free expertise whereas switching customers from one gadget to a different to allow them to proceed to remain on one gadget, and choose it up on one other Alexa gadget seamlessly.
How to Access Free Audiobooks on Alexa
Users can merely discuss to Alexa and ask ‘What’s free on Audible?’. Commands may be given in Hindi and in English.
Users will then be directed to an inventory of Audible’s free titles on Alexa.
They can then say the identify of the audiobook and ask Alexa to learn it out loud.
How does Audible work?
Audible is the corporate’s audiobook app. The subscription value in India is Rs 199 per 30 days, though the primary 90 days are free. Customers get one credit score a month to obtain and use on any title to maintain. Otherwise, titles must be bought at a further value. So customers can both apply their credit score to buy the e-book or pay the price of the title if they’ve run out of credit score.
Users can obtain their audiobook titles to their library and pay attention offline. Audible additionally has podcasts on its platform.
Earlier this yr, the corporate launched a brand new Audible ‘Plus’ catalog for customers in India, which incorporates 15,000 new titles in Hindi and English, together with Audible originals, audiobooks and podcasts. These new titles have been made a part of the prevailing Audible subscription at no further value. These audiobooks which are a part of the Plus catalog may be accessed by the consumer with out utilizing their credit or paying further.
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With inputs from TheIndianEXPRESS
