Editing Audiobook (section)

==Charitable and nonprofit organizations==
[[File:Bolkonskij-frontal.jpg|thumb|Example of an audio studio for professional readings. The studio is surrounded in [[sound baffle]] panels to mitigate [[reverberation]] from the speaker, allowing the microphone to pick up clearer audio.]]
Founded in 1948, [[Learning Ally]] serves more than 300,000 K–12, college and graduate students, veterans and lifelong learners with [[print disabilities]], i.e. who cannot read standard print due to blindness, visual impairment, dyslexia, or other learning disabilities. Learning Ally's collection of more than 80,000 human-narrated textbooks and literature titles can be downloaded on mainstream smartphones and tablets, and is the largest of its kind in the world.

Founded in 2002, [[Bookshare]] is an online library of computer-read audiobooks in accessible formats for people with print disabilities.

Founded in 2005, [[LibriVox]] is also an online library of downloadable audiobooks and a free non for profit organisation developed by Hugh McGuire. It has public domain audiobooks in several languages.<ref name=librivox>{{cite web|title=About Librivox|url=https://librivox.org/pages/about-librivox/|website=Librivox.org|access-date=9 December 2015|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303174231/https://librivox.org/pages/about-librivox/|archive-date=3 March 2016}}</ref>

Calibre Audio Library is a UK charity providing a subscription-free service of unabridged audiobooks for people with sight problems, dyslexia or other disabilities, who cannot read print. They have a library of over 8,550 fiction and non-fiction titles which can be borrowed by post on MP3 CDs and memory sticks or via streaming.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://calibre.org.uk/page.aspx?sitesectionid=86&sitesectiontitle=Calibre+Services |title=Calibre services |publisher=calibre.org.uk |date=28 March 2013 |access-date=28 March 2012 |url-status=live |archive-url=http://archive.wikiwix.com/cache/20120328151530/http://calibre.org.uk/page.aspx?sitesectionid=86&sitesectiontitle=Calibre+Services |archive-date=28 March 2012 }}</ref>

Listening Books is a UK audiobook charity providing an internet streaming, download and postal service to anyone who has a disability or illness which makes it difficult to hold a book, turn its pages, or read in the usual way, this includes people with visual, physical, learning or mental health difficulties. They have audiobooks for both leisure and learning and a library of over 7,500 titles which are recorded in their own digital studios or commercially sourced.

The [[Royal National Institute of Blind People]] (RNIB) is a UK charity which offers a Talking Books library service. The audiobooks are provided in [[DAISY Digital Talking Book|DAISY]] format and delivered to the reader's house by post as a CD or USB memory stick. There are over 30,000 audiobooks available to borrow, which are free to print disabled library members. RNIB subsidises the Talking Books service by around £4 million a year.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.rnib.org.uk/livingwithsightloss/readingwriting/Talkingbooksanddaisyplayers/Pages/talking_books_daisy.aspx |title=RNIB Talking Books Service |publisher=Rnib.org.uk |date=8 June 2012 |access-date=2 August 2012 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120724163250/http://www.rnib.org.uk/livingwithsightloss/readingwriting/Talkingbooksanddaisyplayers/Pages/talking_books_daisy.aspx |archive-date=24 July 2012 }}</ref>