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Studio-grade, cinematic audiobooks at a fraction of the cost, powered by bleeding-edge voice generation models and licensed music and sound effects.

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  • Hume
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Directed scene
by scene

Project Hail Mary

A director works the manuscript with the narrator line by line, until the performance carries the book.

Your readers are already listening.

3 in 5

US adults have listened to an audiobook

Your next reader has headphones in.

APA
1 in 2

Spotify Premium users have pressed play on a book

They're in the app right now. You're not in it.

Spotify
45%

have listened to an audiobook on YouTube

When there's no audio edition, someone else supplies one.

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Hear it, don’t take our word

Real chapters from real books. Voice, score, and sound design, mixed by people.

Huckleberry Finn

Grandpa voice · porch blues · riverboat

The Odyssey

Commanding voice · leitmotif score · ocean

Jekyll & Hyde

British voice · dark piano · dockside

The Great Gatsby

Warm, wry voice · ragtime piano · speakeasy

Alice in Wonderland

Bright voice · fairytale waltz · forest

Music by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com), licensed under CC BY 4.0.

Project Hail Mary sample is a demonstration of production style and is not affiliated with or endorsed by the author or publisher.

The voice is AI. The performance is human.

AI performs the read; humans direct every line, cut the score, and sign off every take. Raw engines read a chapter and stop. We hold the performance.

Direction

Direction marked on every line

Tone, pacing, and the silence before a line are set before we render. Not a raw pass through an engine.

Affect and delivery tagged line by line

Beats and pauses held where the scene turns

Human QA on register, seams, and takes

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Mix

The Letter on the Table

Strings, Sparse, Ch. 4

1m 12s68

He Did Not Look Up

Piano, Restrained, Ch. 4

0m 48s72

You Already Knew

Cello, Low, Ch. 4

1m 30s60

Out Through the Hall

Strings, Rising, Ch. 5

2m 04s84

Sound design made by hand

Score, ambience, and effects are chosen for your book and mixed under the voice cue by cue. Not one bed laid over a whole chapter.

Score per scene, cut once and then out

Ambience and effects locked to word timestamps

Mixed by hand so the voice always wins

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Cast

A full cast when the dialogue needs it

One narrator for the whole book, or a separate voice for every character. Multicast plays as a scene between people, not one reader doing impressions.

A distinct voice cast per character

Dialogue rendered as a scene, not impressions

Single narrator or full cast, your call per book

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How we work, and what you keep

No royalty share, no rights grab, no surprises at the end of production.

Full ownership

The book and the finished audiobook stay entirely yours.

No royalties

One production fee. Every sale after that is yours.

Manuscript privacy

Nobody trains on it, nobody keeps it.

Human-led production

A producer and director own the result from first chapter to final master.

Professional sound design

Score, effects, and ambience selected and mixed by audio engineers.

You direct the director

Notes at every stage, not one reveal at the end.

Books we’ve produced

Authors who sent us a chapter, then sent us the rest.

Humans in SpaceTime… What a Shock cover

Humans in SpaceTime… What a Shock

10 hrs · 41 chapters

Virgin Killer: Sick with the Fairies cover

Virgin Killer: Sick with the Fairies

One narrator · Fully scored

Meet Me in Cedar Ridge cover

Meet Me in Cedar Ridge

5 voices · 3 revision rounds

Guardians of Legend: A Prophecy Awakens cover

Guardians of Legend: A Prophecy Awakens

Epic fantasy · Full scored audiobook

The Portal cover

The Portal

Thriller · Full scored audiobook

Arena Thieves cover

Arena Thieves

Romantasy · Scored chapter sample

Damage Inc. The Hit List cover

Damage Inc. The Hit List

Crime thriller · Scored chapter sample

Split Rock cover

Split Rock

Rockstar romance · Scored chapter sample

Watchers cover

Watchers

Cyberpunk thriller · Scored chapter sample

Darkspire Conspiracy cover

Darkspire Conspiracy

Norse epic fantasy · Scored chapter sample

Three levels of production

Paid once, for the whole book. Human studios charge more for a single finished hour.

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Voiceover

$49one-time

  • 10 finished hours included
  • Extra hours at $5+/hr
  • Expressive narration
  • Character voice casting
  • Pronunciation review
  • Production editing
  • Mastered chapter files
  • Author feedback round
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Studio

$99one-time

  • 10 finished hours included
  • Extra hours at $10+/hr
  • Everything in Voiceover
  • Music
  • Ambience
  • Sound effects
  • Custom sound direction
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Publisher

$199one-time

  • 10 finished hours included
  • Extra hours at $20+/hr
  • Everything in Studio
  • Full cast of narrators
  • Published to Spotify, Apple Books, Google Play, Kobo, and libraries
  • 100% royalties, zero exclusivity
  • Dedicated producer
  • Priority turnaround
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Distributed on

  • Spotify
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What authors ask before they send a chapter

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One chapter, free. Directed, scored, mixed, back in about a day.

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