Your manuscript, produced as an audiobook with a synthetic voice — generated, edited, proofed against your text and mastered to retail specification by the studio.
A different product to human narration, with a different price and one catch you need to know before you order: Audible and ACX do not accept AI-narrated audiobooks. Where it can and cannot go is set out below, before you pay.
Get started Booking now — next start —Most retail platforms do not accept AI-generated narration, and that includes the biggest one. ACX — the route on to Audible and Amazon — prohibits it outright. If Audible is where you need your audiobook to be, this product is not for you, and our human narration service is.
The same applies to a clone of your own voice. A voice being yours does not make the recording human-narrated in a platform’s eyes — it is still synthetic speech, and it is still refused.
We cannot appeal this, influence it, or work around it, and we will not try. Concealing AI origin from a platform is the fastest route to a terminated publishing account. Every order for this service asks you to confirm you understand all of the above.
This is the state of play as we understand it today. Platform policy on AI narration is changing quickly — in both directions — so we check it at the time you order rather than asking you to trust a table on a web page.
| Platform | AI narration | What that means |
|---|---|---|
| ACX / Audible | Not accepted | Prohibited in their submission rules. Audible has said it is working towards accepting third-party synthetic speech, with no date given. |
| Spotify | Accepted | Accepted with disclosure. You tick a “digital voice narration” box and Spotify adds a line to your description telling listeners. Spotify does not pass these titles to its referral partners. |
| Apple Books | Their own system | Apple accept synthetic narration produced through their own system, using their voices. Whether they will take an AI file made elsewhere is a separate question — we check it before you order. |
| Google Play Books | Their own system | As Apple: Google’s auto-narration uses Google’s voices. We confirm the position for uploaded AI audio at the time you order. |
| Amazon KDP Virtual Voice | Their own system | Amazon’s own voices only, clearly labelled on the listing. It does not accept an AI file produced elsewhere. |
| Everywhere else | Varies | Aggregators and library services each set their own rule and several are mid-change. Tell us your target and we will tell you what we know. |
A synthetic voice on its own is a rough draft. The work is what happens afterwards — and that is the part we do.
Enter your manuscript word count — the figure your word processor already shows you — and the price and delivery date are exact.
Not sure? A typical novel runs 70,000–90,000 words.
Earliest start is four working days from today.
Generation, editing and a proofing pass, in working days.
Word, PDF, RTF or plain text. Nothing leaves your computer unless the order is placed.
A clean spoken sample of the voice you want cloned. Only supply a voice you own or have written permission to use — you confirm this below, and it is recorded with your order.
Both boxes must be ticked before you can place an order.
Payable on booking — card, Apple Pay or PayPal. Your files upload once payment clears.
We can clone a voice from a sample you supply and narrate your book in it — your own voice, or one you have permission to use. It is the closest this product gets to a human read, and authors like hearing their own book in their own voice.
The calculator above is the quote. Book the slot that suits you.
Attach it to your order — Word, PDF, RTF or plain text — along with a voice sample if you want your own voice cloned. Files upload once payment clears.
Your book is matched to a current synthetic voice, or the sample you supplied is cloned.
The book is generated chapter by chapter. Pronunciation is corrected and regenerated, mistakes and drift are cut, every chapter is checked against your manuscript, and the set is mastered to retail specification.
Publish-ready files arrive in your dashboard on the date the calculator gave you.
From the day your book starts, your dashboard carries a live production tracker — every chapter and its status, the percentage complete, your manuscript on file, and the date we are working to. Chapters appear as they are finished, so you can listen to your book take shape rather than wait in silence for it.
It matters more here than on a human production. A synthetic voice can drift, mispronounce a name or lose the thread of a sentence, and you know your book better than anyone. If something reads wrong to you, flag it from the tracker and it goes on the fix list — logged, corrected and tracked to done, with no email chain.
No. ACX, the route on to Audible, prohibits text-to-speech, AI and automated recordings. That is their rule, quoted on this page, and it applies whether the voice is a stock synthetic one or a clone of your own. Audible has said it is working towards accepting third-party synthetic speech, but has given no date.
If Audible matters to you, order human narration instead.
You keep the files and we keep the fee. That is what the confirmation at the order step is about: the production is what you are buying, and it will have been delivered as ordered. We cannot control a retailer’s policy.
This is why we ask where you intend to sell it before you order, and why we will say so if the answer makes this product the wrong buy.
Yes, from a sample you supply and are entitled to use. You confirm that entitlement at the order step and it is recorded against your order. A cloned voice is still synthetic speech as far as a platform is concerned — it does not unlock Audible.
No, and we are not going to tell you it is. A synthetic voice does not act, and it does not make choices about a line. What it does do is read your book accurately, in a consistent voice, for less money than a human production — once we have taken out the mistakes, fixed the pronunciation and mastered it.
A voice you chose — including a clone of your own — and the studio work that turns a raw generation into an audiobook: pronunciation corrected and regenerated, mistakes and nonsense cut, every chapter proofed against your manuscript, and the whole thing mastered to retail specification.
You also end up owning the files. They are yours, in full quality, to take to any platform that will accept them — not locked inside one shop’s system.
The calculator gives you a working-day estimate from your start date: generation, editing, and a proofing pass. It is quicker than a human production because nobody has to book a narrator — but it is not instant, because the proofing is real.
Tell us where you need the book to sell and we will tell you straight — including if the answer is human narration, or nothing at all.
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