The Talking Bible®a compact, solid state digital audio Bible player
with a built-in single-voice narration of the entire New Testament 
Easy to Use!
Passport Size (3.5"x5")
Entire audio New Testament
Select Book and Chapter ( + / - )
On / Off / Rotary Volume Control
Scroll to favorite Scripture passages
External six (6) volt DC and earphone jack
Locater reference button to assist visually challenged
Owner's Manual
Watch a Talking Bible demo video The NEW digital Talking Bible is currently available in 11 languages! Please Note: Entire audio New Testaments have been produced in over one hundred different languages. Many of these audio narrations are available at our FREE Bible listening site. Additional Scripture recordings are in various stages of production. The entire audio Bible is also available on Mp3 CD in Russian, Mandarin, Hebrew and English languages.
Analog Talling Bible
The first Talking Bible ever produced was TBI, Inc.'s analog model developed in India.
TBI, Inc.'s Version 1 analog Talking Bible was the first product to deliver the benefits of a dedicated audio player to mass-market users, delivering essential everyday opportunities to access God’s Word in a completely new way. The analog Talking Bible is now in use by tens of thousands of delighted users worldwide. Digital Talking Bible The latest version of the Talking Bible is TBI, Inc's digital solid-state model shown below.
With the Digital Talking Bible, it gets even better. Now people can access God's Word using solid state audio players.
The digital Talking Bible
The Talking Bibleby Dr. Harvey T. Hoekstra, D. Miss., Board Chairman Talking Bibles International NONREADERS AND THE BIBLE - More than half of all adults in our world are unable to read. Among them are millions of new believers from oral cultures. These new believers need to have access to God’s Word if they are to grow strong in their faith and not fall away. And multitudes of others still need to hear about Christ for the very first time. NEW TESTAMENTS ALREADY TRANSLATED AND PRINTED - Dedicated missionaries have already completed and printed New Testament translations in more than one thousand languages. Most of these translations were completed with painstaking effort and at great cost. But most of the people for whom they were translated cannot read them! These people will be able to learn God’s Word only by HEARING it. THE ADVENT OF THE TALKING BIBLE® - The audio Scripture movement made a great step forward with the advent of The Talking Bible®. The Talking Bible® contains a complete audio New Testament in a sealed unit that has the appearance of a regular Bible. Instead of turning printed pages to read, the non-reader presses a button to hear. Talking Bibles® are already available in many different languages. New ones will be produced in hundreds of other languages as resources are made available. MOBILIZING CHURCHES AND MISSION ORGANIZATIONS - If Talking Bibles® are going to be made available for all who need them, thousands of churches and scores of mission organizations will have to become involved in the Talking Bible® Movement. Churches will have to make the Talking Bible® Movement a high priority in their praying and giving. Many will have to include the financial support for Talking Bible® Projects in their annual mission budgets. And many mission organizations will have to recruit dedicated people who are eager to learn how they can produce and distribute Talking Bibles® for non-readers around the world. TALKING BIBLE® SUNDAYS – Talking Bibles International is challenging every church to observe an annual Talking Bible® Sunday. On this Sunday congregations will be made aware of the urgent need for Talking Bibles® in a world where most adults are not able to read. They will also be challenged to give and to pray so that those who cannot read will have the same opportunity to learn God's Word by HEARING that others have by reading. LEARNING MORE – Talking Bibles International is working in cooperation with many different organizations and churches including national Bible Societies to produce and provide Talking Bibles® in many of the world's languages. Please pray that God will bless the Talking Bible® Movement so that in every church God's people will respond positively to the challenge to provide non-readers around the world with a Talking Bible with God's precious Word in their own language. VITA Dr. Harvey Thomas Hoekstra  Harvey Thomas Hoekstra was born on November 20, 1920. He was the fourth of six brothers. His boyhood was spent on the farm where he grew up in the atmosphere of a Christian home. He was out of school for four and one-half years between grade school and high school. During this time he had three major operations and spent some forty-five days in the hospital. Through this experience he came to know Christ as personal Savior and was called to the ministry.
He began high school in 1938 and graduated with honor completing his work in two and a half years. He graduated Cum Laude with an A. B. degree from Hope College, and received his B. D. degree from Western Theological Seminary of the Reformed Church. He was student pastor of the Hope Reformed Church in Grand Haven, Michigan for three years while taking his theological training.
Post graduate work included the Summer Institute of Linguistic course with Wycliffe at the University of Oklahoma, a year of post graduate study at Scarrit and Peabody Colleges in Nashville, Tennessee. He also studied during two furloughs, with a term at Princeton Seminary and a semester at the Kennedy School of Missions in Hartford, Connecticut.
He received the Doctor of Missiology degree from Fuller Theological Seminary in 1978. At that time he was awarded the Donald Anderson McGavran Award in recognition of the excellence of his dissertation on the subject of the World Council of Churches and Its 'New Mission'. This study was published in 1979.
While in college, he was married to Lavina Irene Hoffman. With their children they have served as missionaries in the Sudan and Ethiopia for 30 years. In the Sudan he reduced the Anuak tribal language to writing, worked in the area of literacy and evangelism and translated the entire New Testament into the Anuak language which was printed by the American Bible Society. He also translated into the Murle language Mark, John, Acts and Romans which was printed by the British and Foreign Bible Society using both the Roman and Arabic script.
In Ethiopia he, with his family, pioneered work among the Majang forest people in the Southwestern part of the country. Here he developed the use of cassettes in evangelism aimed at reaching a number of previously unreached people groups with the Gospel, each in its own language. Beginning in 1977, the Hoekstras returned overseas annually serving as founder / director of Portable Recording Ministries' (PRM) World Cassette Outreach (WCO) program.
 Majang man speaks into microphone.
Dr. Hoekstra founded Audio Scriptures International (ASI) in 1989 to provide Scripture on cassette in languages needed by ministries among ethnic peoples who have left their homelands and now live in other countries.
In 1979 Dr. Hoekstra was elected to serve as moderator of the General Synod of the Reformed Church in America. The Hoekstras make their home in Escondido, CA,
In 1995 Dr. Hoekstra was awarded the “Outstanding Alumnus Award” by Western Theological Seminary.
Dr. Hoekstra is currently serving as Chairman of the Board of Talking Bibles International.
The Hoekstras have six children. Three of their children are full time missionaries.
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