Can I get spoken narration in background when pages are swiped?

Hello:
I have a 20-illustration picturebook currently in print publication. I've reworked all imagery from original AI files, and they look great, but I've hit a stumbling block in my efforts to incorporate spoken narration, page-by-page, of the 20 couplets which comprise the text for the book. (Actually, the text is contained within each illustration), but I still need a means to integrate an audio file per page, containing the spoken words of each couplet.
Actually, I intended also to have a musical, instrumental file playable in the  background...one-time activation button on first page, hopefully, with looping.
I've looked for answers for these querries, but all I find is many others with the exact same questions...how to keep an audio widget playing continuously as one swipes through the pages... Some people seem to suspect that this deficiency must already be in development, and it's sure to appear very soon. I'd love to know one way or the other, so I don't finish this up without any sound integration only to find it becomes available in iBooks Author a week later...!
Any suggestions, web sites, models of similar books out there already...would be greatly appreciated.
Geoff Thornton
Edmergentech

Liz Castro is one of the preeminant ePub experts sharing what they know on the web.  She discussed Apple's new "Read Aloud" feature for iBooks here.  Adding Read Aloud to a Fixed Layout ePub is precisely what you are asking for.  However, it's not  an easy solution as you'll read in Liz's article.  She's published an inexpensive ($5) mini-guide to help you create this kind of ePub file.  It will help to have and know how to use Adobe inDesign but you can also use this information to hand code this kind of ePub file with a plain text editor.
Another possibility is an iOS app called "Book Creator" by Red Jumper Studio.  It creates Fixed Layout ePub files to whick you could add the Read Aloud feature with hand coding.  You'll need to learn a bit about SMIL though.  It's not that hard.
So, yes, there are solutions for what you want to do but they are not easy to implement yet.  I have hope that Apple will add Fixed Layout to Pages ePub export and possibly Read Aloud as well.  You can petition Apple for enhancements such as this using the feedback function in the Pages application: In Pages do Pages > Provide Pages Feedback.
You should have an iTunes Connect account (it's free) so that you may access Apple's documentation and example files.  Sign up here.

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