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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.

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Music
SFX

Grandpa Spuds Oxley · the Mississippi opening · porch blues over a riverboat bed

"Porch Blues" -- Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com), CC BY 4.0

How it works

From manuscript to on sale everywhere.

1

Send your book.

Start with your first chapter, free. Finished, scored audio in your inbox within 24 hours. If you love it, we produce the whole book.

2

We produce it.

We cast the voice with you, then score, mix, and master every chapter: narration, music, and ambience. A human checks every line before anything ships.

3

You sell it everywhere.

Spotify, Apple Books, Google Play, Kobo, and libraries. You keep 100% of royalties and all rights. Nothing is exclusive. The audio is yours forever.

Get your first chapter freeWhere you can sell it

Case studies

Books we shipped, start to finish.

Living indie authors across a 4×3 shelf of niches that sell: romance, romantasy, fantasy, thriller, crime, sci-fi, espionage, cyberpunk, historical. Every one has a full production write-up you can read.

Humans in SpaceTime… What a Shock cover

Philosophical science fiction

Humans in SpaceTime… What a Shock

Agron Shehu, writing as A.Z. Shehu

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Virgin Killer: Sick with the Fairies cover

Medieval fantasy

Virgin Killer: Sick with the Fairies

Timothy R.J. Eveland, writing as Jon Stone

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Meet Me in Cedar Ridge cover

Small-town contemporary romance

Meet Me in Cedar Ridge

Brynn Winslow

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Arena Thieves cover

Romantasy

Arena Thieves

Madison Zehring

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Guardians of Legend: A Prophecy Awakens cover

Epic fantasy

Guardians of Legend: A Prophecy Awakens

Manuel Lambert

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The Portal cover

Thriller / suspense

The Portal

Melane Bower

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Damage Inc. The Hit List cover

Crime thriller

Damage Inc. The Hit List

Brett McKay

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Split Rock cover

Rockstar romance

Split Rock

K.A. Finn

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Project GrandSlam & The Zhongguo Orchestra cover

Espionage / Christian mystery

Project GrandSlam & The Zhongguo Orchestra

Jos Ilagan

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Dr. Shrimply: Out of Time cover

Sci-fi / historical thriller

Dr. Shrimply: Out of Time

Jon Bamberger

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Watchers cover

Cyberpunk thriller

Watchers

Brian Weimer

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Darkspire Conspiracy cover

Norse epic fantasy

Darkspire Conspiracy

Joseph Chaput

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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.

Bob Neufeld
Partner narrator

Bob Neufeld

Real voice · 90 LibriVox titles

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Project Hail Mary

Rocky

As Rocky, warm, engaging

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Hear the full Rocky & Grace scene →
J

Jane

Strong, experienced

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J

John

Deep, grave

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D

David

Confident, calm

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A

Allison

Inviting, velvety

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R

Rob

Experienced, strong

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G

Geeky Scientist

Quirky, animated

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H

Hope

Calm, soothing

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M

Max

Friendly, clear

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S

Serafina

Sensual, confident

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10,000+More narratorsBrowse the full directory — accents, languages, and partner talent.

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 chapter

Voiceover and Studio packs

Pro narrators

Names listeners trust.

Attach a name listeners already follow. A partner narrator records a short sample; Lex extends their voice across the full book. Credited and paid. Their audience discovers your title.

Browse narrators →Partner model

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 us

Pricing

Pay once. Keep the hours.

No subscription, no reset. Buy finished hours and they're yours.

Free

$0

First chapter free. Finished audio in 24 hours, no card.

Start free

Voiceover

$49once

10 hours of finished narration. Multi-voice casting, your cloned voice, commercial license, 320kbps downloads.

Studio

Popular
$99once

10 hours, fully scored. Music beds, ambience, and SFX mixed in: the production you hear in our showcase.

Publisher

$199once

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, and libraries, with an optional Lex Premium catalog listing. Disclosure handled. 100% of royalties, zero exclusivity.

Each pack is 10 hrs. Multi-title? Set quantity at checkout. Extra hours: $5–20 depending on package.

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.

OptionPricePer finished hourWhat you actually get
Lex VoiceoverThat's us$49 once$4.90Pay once, no subscription, the hours are yours to keep. Finished narration: multi-voice casting, mastering, commercial license. You upload a manuscript; we hand back chapters.
ElevenLabs Creator (DIY)$22/mo~$11Monthly subscription. Same DIY workflow, smaller bucket, about a fifth of a novel per month.
Hume Octave 2 Pro (DIY)$70/mo~$14Monthly subscription. Raw Octave 2 output — the engine in our compare section. Re-renders, chunking, mastering, and multi-voice casting are on you; two billing cycles is typical for a 10-hour book.
Cartesia Sonic 3 Scale (DIY)$299/mo~$30Monthly subscription. Same Sonic 3 engine you hear in our compare section. Scale tier for novel-length commercial generation; still raw TTS — not a mastered, scored audiobook.
Human narrator$2,500–$6,000/book$250–$600Pay per book, not a subscription — but per-finished-hour rates still price out most authors and small publishers.

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.

Hear your first chapter free

Hear your own book.

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  • Case study: Humans in SpaceTime
  • Case study: Arena Thieves
  • Case study: Meet Me in Cedar Ridge
  • Case study: Guardians of Legend
  • Case study: Watchers
  • Case study: Dr. Shrimply

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