For Yoto families
Grandma's voice, on the Yoto player.
Your kid already falls asleep to that little screen-free box. Here is how to make it play the voices they love most, step by step.
What you need
- A Yoto or Yoto Mini and the Yoto app
- A blank Make Your Own (MYO) card (sold in packs, a few dollars each)
- An audio recording of your person reading
That last item is the whole project. The card and the app take ten minutes; getting a good recording of Grandma is the part families stall on, so both paths below start there.
The DIY way
- Record the reading. A phone's voice-memo app, propped a foot away in a quiet room. Record each chapter or book as its own memo, and have them say the child's name at the start. It will take a few tries; that is normal.
- Move the files to the Yoto app. In the app, open MYO, create a playlist, and upload each memo as a track. Name the tracks so the display shows something friendly.
- Link the playlist to your blank card. Follow the app's linking step, then pop the card in the player. Done: their voice, on demand, no screen.
Honest caveats: phone memos pick up room echo and fridge hum, chapters recorded weeks apart will sound different from each other, and the original files live on one person's phone, where voice memos have a way of getting lost. Worth doing anyway; just know the trade.
The effortless way
Fablewood removes every step except the reading itself. Your family gets a story line: Grandma answers the phone (or calls it) and reads. We clean up the phone-line sound, split chapters into tracks, and the finished audiobook lands in your family library with a Yoto-ready export: tracks in order, named, sized for an MYO card, with printable card-label art carrying your child's name. You upload the pack and link the card, same as step 3 above.
The originals stay yours to download forever, so the recording is never trapped in any one player.
The easiest version of all of this
A loved one answers the phone and reads. Fablewood turns the call into a finished keepsake audiobook in your family's private library, ready for bedtime, the car, and every player below.
$99 for a year · unlimited stories · never auto-renews
Questions, answered plainly
Does Fablewood work with Yoto?
Yes. Every finished audiobook includes a Yoto-ready export pack: tracks in order, named, sized for a Make Your Own card, plus printable card-label art. You upload it with the Yoto app like any MYO playlist.
Does the grandparent need a Yoto or a smartphone?
No. They need a telephone. Any phone, even a landline, anywhere in the world. The Yoto end of things is yours.
How much fits on one MYO card?
Comfortably an evening's worth of stories; Yoto's cards hold many tracks. Longer collections simply become a second card, which children treat as a sequel.
Is the audio really their voice?
Always. We clear away phone-line noise and make it sound close and warm; we never generate, clone, or alter a voice with AI.
Yoto is a trademark of Yoto Ltd. Fablewood is an independent product, not affiliated with or endorsed by Yoto.