Narration
Locked AI voice, a pronunciation list built from your names and terms, automated checks, one full listen-through with every flagged segment redone, mastered to retailer specs.
From $200 per finished hour.
Audiobooks
Audiobooks with AI narration, directed and proofed by a person.
I turn finished manuscripts into audiobooks. The voice is AI, and I direct it: pronunciation locked chapter by chapter, emotion checked line by line, and every take listened to before it ships.
I built this process on my own audio drama, Blue Veil, about 2.8 hours across its first two chapters, released free on YouTube. Every production I deliver is labeled as AI narrated.
Options
Pick how many times a person listens
A finished hour is about 10,000 words. These are starting prices. The final quote comes after a short sample from your own manuscript.
Narration with proofing
Everything above plus a second listen-through on a different device, redone segments rechecked in context, and a spot-check you can audit.
From $250 per finished hour.
Narration with atmosphere
Either option above, plus ambience, a handful of effects and a music bed where the story calls for it.
Add $75 to $150 per finished hour.
The review scale
How defects come down with each pass
A raw AI take is not a finished chapter. On varied, emotional fiction, about 20 to 45 percent of segments need a redo on the first listen. Each human review pass cuts that down. These are typical figures, and I report the real ones from your sample chapter.
First generation
About 20 to 45% of segments flagged. Not delivered at this stage.
After pass 1 (included)
About 5 to 12% still flagged. A person listens to the whole chapter at normal speed, marks every misspeak, bad tonal shift, clipped word or mispronounced name, and each marked segment is redone. Standard: up to 10% minor artifacts, no wrong or missing words.
After pass 2 (proofing tier)
About 2 to 5% flagged. A second listen on a different device, with redone segments rechecked in context. Standard: up to 5% minor artifacts.
After pass 3 (on request)
2% or less. A phonetic listen-back of every name, place and custom word against the pronunciation list, then a final spot-check. Quoted per book.
How it works
From manuscript to finished files
1. Send the manuscript and a few notes. Tone, who the narrator is, any names that are hard to say.
2. Hear a short sample. I produce a few minutes from your own text so you can approve the voice and the delivery.
3. Production. I build the pronunciation list, generate the narration chapter by chapter, and check every segment against your text so nothing is cut or skipped.
4. Review passes. A person listens, marks problems, and I redo them, as many passes as the option you chose.
5. Delivery. Mastered files in the format your retailer asks for, plus the AI-narration disclosure line for your listing.
Timing. You get a date with the quote, based on the length of the book.
Straight answers
What to know before you hire me
Where it can be sold
Disclosed AI narration is accepted by retailers such as Spotify, Kobo and Google Play, and by Audible through Amazon's own programs. ACX requires a human narrator, so I do not promise ACX. Retailer rules change, so check each one before you publish.
Your manuscript
I process text on paid AI service tiers, where the provider states it does not use your content to improve its products. I will tell you which voice service I used on your book.
Rights
You confirm you hold the rights to the text. I do not clone real people's voices without their written consent.
Proof
The work behind this
Blue Veil is my own adult science-fantasy audio drama: written, narrated with AI voices, sound designed and scored by me, and released in 30-minute parts on YouTube as LoveBrain's Cinema Sound. Here is the start of Chapter 1, Part 1, which is the full production at work.
Blue Veil, Chapter 1, Part 1, starting where the story begins. Adult content: Blue Veil is rated R, for mature listeners.