How do I listen to the Audio Bible and choose a reader?
Recordings play on the site, in a bar at the bottom of the screen. Not every translation has them: those that do are marked with the icon.
The easiest way is to open a chapter and press “Play” in the player bar at the bottom of the screen. To choose a reader and a book, use the “Audio Bibles” page:
- In the “Bible” menu, choose “Audio Bibles”. On a phone, the button opens the menu.
- Open the tab of the language you need.
- Choose a reader.
- Choose a book.
- Press a chapter number: the recording starts playing in the bar at the bottom of the screen.
- Go to other pages of the site: the recording keeps playing.
When another page is open, the chapter name in the player bar becomes a link.
- Press the chapter name in the player bar: its text opens.
- If another chapter is open, the player bar shows a button with its name: it plays this chapter instead.
If the chapter has only one reader, the list does not open.
- In the player bar, press the reader’s name.
- Choose another one: their recording starts at once.
- In the player bar, press “Play”.
- Press “Settings”.
- Under “Speed”, choose a value from 0.75 to 2.
- Open “Settings” again, and under “Sleep timer” choose 15, 30 or 60 minutes or “end of chapter”.
If you press the clock, the remaining time with a minus sign appears instead of the chapter length. On a phone the clock may be hidden.
“No audio for this chapter”: in the open translation the chapter has no recording. “Audio follows the ‘…’ edition — the text may differ”: the reader read a different edition, and the words may not match.
The site is open in another window or tab, and the sound is playing there. Press “Listen here”, and the recording continues from the same point.
On a computer, in any keyboard layout: P — play or pause, [ and ] — 10 seconds back and forward, < and > — the neighbouring chapter, M — mute, + and - — volume.
Yes, in this browser and separately for each reader: in the same chapter the recording continues from that point. When the player is closed, you can continue on the home page:
- Listen to a chapter for at least 5 seconds.
- On a page without its own recording, for example “What we believe”, pause the recording and close the player with .
- Go to the home page and press in the “Continue listening” block: the recording continues from the same point.
What plays next is set by the “Continue” item in “Settings”: “chapter by chapter”, “to the end of the book” or “this chapter only”.