NWRL Connect vs Talefall

Companion library catalog app for the Northwest Regional Library in Minnesota. Search books, place holds, renew loans, and access ebooks and eaudio. To use this app, you need a library card at a participating member library.

Talefall — a player for the audiobooks you already have, and a studio for the ones you imagine. Listen to your own audiobooks in a player built for long listening, and read along as the text is highlighted. When you want something new, describe an idea and Talefall writes and narrates an audiobook for you (AI creation is a subscription feature). A PLAYER BUILT FOR AUDIOBOOKS • Resumes to the exact second — every book remembers its place • Speed from 0.75× to 2×, ±15 s skips, chapters, sleep timer with a gentle fade • Bookmarks, highlights, notes and in-book search • Background play, lock screen and AirPlay • Import MP3, M4A, M4B, AAC, FLAC and more — files, folders or ZIP, from the Files app or over Wi-Fi from your computer • Catalogs: LibriVox audiobooks (also via Internet Archive) and Project Gutenberg texts READ AND LISTEN, TOGETHER Import an EPUB, PDF, FB2 or TXT, or paste text. Narrate it with an Apple system voice right on your iPhone (works offline, uses no hours) or in the Talefall voice on our service (subscription, uses hours). Turn an audiobook into text with on-device speech recognition, then read and listen together. The audio never leaves your iPhone. CREATE AN AUDIOBOOK FROM AN IDEA (SUBSCRIPTION) • Describe a story, an explainer or a how-to in a few sentences • Choose the language (English, Russian or Spanish) and the length, from 15 minutes to 5 hours • An AI model writes the text, and Talefall narrates it chapter by chapter • Chapters arrive as they are ready, so you can start listening before the whole book is done. If you allow it, Talefall can send a "book is ready" notification • Books are saved on your iPhone, with a copy in your iCloud when it is available; our server copy is deleted after delivery One AI sample story is included and remains available without a purchase. Other books shown are imported LibriVox audiobooks and a sample EPUB; these files are not included. ONE APP, THREE TABS My Books, Create and Search. Search looks through your books and the catalogs at once. PRIVACY No ads, no account, no tracking. Before your first AI order, Talefall asks your permission to send your ideas, settings and text directly to OpenAI (OpenAI OpCo, LLC), under our contract and data processing agreement with OpenAI. No model training, no sale, no advertising. OpenAI may keep requests up to 30 days for service delivery and abuse prevention, longer if required by law or to protect against harm; no single maximum applies. Fiction only: do not include real personal or health information about anyone, including yourself. AI-written explainers and how-tos can contain mistakes. Anonymous usage counters are optional and stay off unless you turn them on. AVAILABILITY Creating books and narration on our service are for adults (18+) in supported countries. They are not available in the EEA, the UK, Switzerland and some other countries. Supported countries: https://ownplace.net/talefall/ai-studio-territories PLANS • Player: try it for 3 days, then unlock it permanently with a one-time purchase. The trial is for the player only and does not start a subscription • Talefall Subscription (monthly, auto-renewing): books from your ideas and narration in the Talefall voice — 5 hours of new audiobooks and narration each month. Monthly hours renew each billing period and do not carry over. Listening never uses hours. The player is included while the subscription is active • If your remaining hours are not enough for an order, subscribers can buy 5 extra hours. Extra hours do not expire, but an active subscription is required to use them Payment is charged to your Apple Account. The subscription renews automatically unless it is cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. You can manage or cancel it in your Apple Account settings. Terms of Use: https://ownplace.net/talefall/terms Privacy Policy: https://ownplace.net/talefall/privacy Questions? contact@ownplace.net