For authors & small publishers
Your book deserves a
cinematic audio experience.
In partnership with industry leaders
Scored audiobooks
Listen to a scored audiobook.
Real books our pipeline produced end to end -- narration, music, and ambience mixed into finished productions. Pick a cover, then swap narrators, soundscapes, and faders to build your own mix.
Tap a cover to listen. Swipe for more titles.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Mark Twain
A grandpa storyteller voice, lazy porch blues, and the creak of a riverboat -- the whole Mississippi in one press of play. Twain in first person needs a voice with tall tales in it, so we cast one.
Grandpa Spuds Oxley · the Mississippi opening · porch blues over a riverboat bed
"Porch Blues" -- Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com), CC BY 4.0
Every one of these cost less than a coffee to render. Yours is next.
Hear your first chapter freeThe craft
Built to sound human. Built to scale.
Indistinguishable from real.
Emotion, pacing, and breath that pass for a person, not a text reader.
Direct every detail.
Control tone, speed, emphasis, and pronunciation with simple tags. You're the director.
One voice, steady for 12 hours.
We handle the chunking and consistency so a single voice holds across an entire book or season, no mid-chapter drift, no robotic resets.
Same passage. Hear the difference.
See how Lex stacks up
Chapter XXII of War and Peace performed by leading TTS options.
Finished audiobook
Lex
Russian-accent narration, scored, with music and ambience, fully mastered.
PollyAmazon Polly
InworldInworld TTS 1.5 Max
CartesiaCartesia Sonic 3
EL v2ElevenLabs Multilingual v2
EL v3ElevenLabs v3
HumeHume Octave 2
Voice engines read the text. Lex produces the book.
Hear your first chapter freeMusic
Not just a voice, a soundtrack.
Score every production from a library of 55,000+ tracks. Tap any tile to preview.
Voices
A cast for every story.
A few of our narrators. Tap any to hear a real sample. The full library has thousands of voices, accents, and languages, each steady for chapters on end.
Jane
Strong, experienced
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John
Deep, grave
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David
Confident, calm
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Allison
Inviting, velvety
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Rob
Experienced, strong
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Geeky Scientist
Quirky, animated
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Hope
Calm, soothing
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Max
Friendly, clear
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Serafina
Sensual, confident
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Humans + AI
Your voice — or a name listeners already trust.
Hear the whole book in your own voice without months in the booth — or attach a credited pro narrator whose fans will follow.
Author voice
You narrate.
Nothing beats the author's voice. We know you don't have 60 hours for a booth session — record a short sample and Lex performs the full book in your voice. Memoir, essays, and the book only you can read.
Try it on your first chapterVoiceover and Studio packs
Pro narrator
Bob Neufeld
Attach a name listeners already follow. Bob records a short sample; Lex extends his voice across the full book. His audience discovers your title — credited and paid.
Pro narrator
Are you a pro narrator?
We partner with working narrators the same way — short session, full book, credited and paid. Help us build the next generation of audiobook production.
Apply to work with usPricing
Pay once. Keep the hours.
No subscription, no reset. Buy finished hours and they're yours. A human-narrated audiobook runs $2,500–$6,000.
Voiceover
10 hours of finished narration. Multi-voice casting, your cloned voice, commercial license, 320kbps downloads.
Studio
Popular10 hours, fully scored. Music beds, ambience, and SFX mixed in: the production you hear in our showcase.
Publisher
Everything in Studio, plus multiple voices per book so you can pick the cast that fits — and we publish it everywhere: Google Play, Kobo, Spotify, Apple Books, libraries, and the Lex Premium catalog. Disclosure handled. 100% of royalties, zero exclusivity.
Need more than 10 hrs? Pay $5–10 per extra hour.
The honest comparison
Do the per-hour math.
Every option below can put a voice on your words. Only one hands you a finished audiobook. And only one lets you pay all at once.
And yes, there are free options. Here's the catch.
- KDP Virtual Voice: Free, but Amazon-only: Amazon's stock voices, invite-based eligibility, distribution locked to the Amazon ecosystem, and you never get the audio files. Same trade Kindle Unlimited asks of your ebook — exclusivity in exchange for the catalog.
- Google Play auto-narration: Free, but limited stock voices and built around the Google Play catalog. Fine as a floor; it is not a performance.
If a free, locked-in stock voice is enough for your book, use it, genuinely. If you want a performance you own and can sell everywhere AI narration is accepted, that's what we build.
Beyond the bookshelf
Books first. Not only books.
Lex was built to get books into audio, for self-published authors and small publishers. The same engine narrates everything else long-form, too.
Documentaries & YouTube.
Narrate long-form videos and explainers with a voice that never gets tired or drifts mid-script.
Podcasts.
Record a full episode from a script -- intros, ads and all -- in one pass, week after week, in the same consistent voice.
Video games.
Voice every character, NPC, and line of dialogue, plus TTRPG, actual-play, and D&D content, without a casting budget.
Meditation & sleep.
Calm, steady narration for guided meditations, sleep stories, and ambient tracks, layered over the music and soundscapes built in.
Online courses.
Narrate every module, and re-record a single line in seconds when the content changes.
Your use case.
Ads, apps, call centers, and any other long-form project.
Hear your own book.
Send us your first chapter. Finished, studio-grade audio in your inbox within 24 hours, free.
No credit card · One chapter free · Pay once, keep the audio