Making audiobooks?

Question

Books

Hello!
I would like to share some of my creations. I had 2 questions:
1. What is the best free software to use for this? Maybe there is something specific?
Platforms: Windows and, if so, iOS.
2. Where can I get free background music? Interested, of course, in lounge, ambient, chillout, relax, etc.
Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

Audacity

Answer 2

Of the free ones, the flagship Audacity has already been noted above. From the paid ones - Steinberg Cubase, SONY Sound Forge, etc.
Audacity is rather clumsy, as a result of which even the banal use of several real-time VST effects (through a special VST bridge) - like a compressor, reverb, equalizer and sidechain - turns into non-acidic hemorrhoids. If you are interested in just having fun without serious manners and spending money (and without a high-quality microphone and a special room with the necessary acoustic characteristics (booths), sound recording is out of the question, especially for an audiobook), then Audacity is what you need.

Answer 3

Do a Google search for the phrases
creative commons music
and
podsafe music
You'll have to go through a lot of tracks before you find something worthwhile. But good tracks come across.

Answer 4

Great tracks can be found here: ccmixter.org

Answer 5

There is a small overview of speech synthesizers here, it can help.

Answer 6

Music can probably be found at http://www.openmusicarchive.org/