A studio audiobook. $149, not $5,400.
Drop your manuscript. Pick a voice — or clone your own. We render, master, and ship a studio-quality audiobook with chapter markers and an Audible-ready M4B. Hours, not months.
No watermark · No subscription · One-time $149, you keep 100%
Chapter One · The Lighthouse Keeper
Narrated by Aria · EBU R128 mastered
Cheaper than studio production
Languages supported
Royalty share — you keep all of it
Not months
What an audiobook actually costs
A friend hired a professional narrator for her novel last year. The studio quoted $4,200 for the narration. Then $800 for the audio engineer to master each chapter to broadcast loudness. Then $400 to package the M4B with chapter markers and metadata for Audible.
Then 25–40% of every sale to ACX. For life. $5,400 up front, royalty share forever, and six months of back-and-forth. Most authors don't do it. They publish ebook-only and tell themselves it doesn't matter.
We rebuilt the whole stack. Same outcome. $149. You keep 100%.
How it works
Three steps.
No timeline.
1.Drop your manuscript
DOCX, EPUB, PDF — paste from anywhere. We auto-detect chapters and clean the formatting.
2.Pick a voice. Or your own.
70+ studio voices, or clone your voice from a 3-second sample. Pro casts characters separately.
3.We render. You ship.
Confidence-checked. Mastered to -23 LUFS. M4B with chapter markers. Audible-ready. Done.
The pipeline moat
Models are commodities.
Pipelines are products.
Anyone can call ElevenLabs. The model is 60% of the answer. The other 40% is the editorial pipeline that nobody else runs.
Whisper-large-v3 confidence QC
We re-listen to every chapter and regenerate any sentence below 92% confidence. You never hear a mispronounced name.
EBU R128 mastering
Loudness-normalized to -23 LUFS, silence-trimmed, declicked — what broadcast engineers do for podcasts, on every chapter.
Story-bible pronunciation lock
Character and place names auto-extracted, phoneme-locked, and injected as SSML. Your protagonist sounds the same on chapter 1 and chapter 27.
The billion-reader Indic market
Hindi, Bengali, Tamil, Telugu, Marathi, Gujarati, Punjabi and more — on our own Sarvam Bulbul / IndicTTS worker. No other tool ships these.
Best model for the job
Fish Audio S2 Pro, ElevenLabs v3, Hume TADA, Sesame CSM-1B — we call the right one per task. The model is the tool; the pipeline is the product.
Your voice, reusable
Clone once from a short sample, then narrate every future book in your own voice. Apache-2.0 cloning on Pro, premium long-sample on Max.
What you get vs what they sell
We're the only row
with all of these.
| Feature | AudiobookMaker | ElevenLabs | Fish Story Studio | ACX/Audible | Speechki |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Studio-grade quality | yes (human) | ||||
| Confidence QC + auto-retry | yes (human) | ||||
| EBU R128 mastering on every chapter | yes (human) | ||||
| Pronunciation lock from bible | manual SSML | yes (human) | |||
| Multi-character casting | yes (Pro+) | manual | |||
| Voice cloning | yes (Pro+) | yes (premium) | |||
| Audible-ready M4B | |||||
| Indic languages | limited | ||||
| Royalty share | 0% | n/a | n/a | 25–40% for life | n/a |
| Time to finish | hours | hours | hours | 3–6 months | n/a |
| Price per book | $149–499 | API metered | subscription | $2,000–4,000 | $50+ + ads |
Pricing
Three tiers. Per book.
No subscription.
Sample 1 chapter free at Base quality before you commit. No watermark, no tricks — you pay once and own the files forever.
Base
Studio-quality single-narrator audiobook. Yours forever.
- Fish Audio S2 Pro (TTS-Arena #1)
- Confidence-checked rendering
- EBU R128 mastering pass
- Pronunciation lock from your bible
- MP3 + M4B with chapter markers
- Unlimited re-renders for 30 days
Pro
Multi-character + emotion + voice cloning included.
- Everything in Base
- ElevenLabs v3 (70+ languages)
- Multi-character casting
- Emotion control via Hume Octave 2
- Voice cloning (your voice, 3-sec sample)
- 5 free re-renders for chapter edits
Max
Premium polish. Distribution prep. Human QA.
- Everything in Pro
- Hume TADA (700-second single-pass)
- ElevenLabs Pro Voice Clone (long-sample)
- Audible / Apple / Spotify metadata
- Human QA review of first 3 chapters
- Priority queue + dedicated support
Voice clone add-on +$49 (one-time, reusable across all your books). Available on Base; included in Pro/Max.
A year from now.
You could still be the author with the ebook-only catalog.
Or your readers could be listening on Audible.
We can't make you publish. But we can make sure “an audiobook costs $5,000”isn't the reason you didn't.
FAQ
Real questions.
The stuff people email us.
Will this sound like AI?
Most listeners cannot tell. We use the SOTA models — Fish Audio S2 Pro, ElevenLabs v3, Hume TADA — and run every chapter through a confidence-check loop that catches mispronounced names and skipped sentences before you ever hear them. Then we master the audio to broadcast loudness. That last 10% is the difference between AI-as-toy and AI-as-studio.
Why $149 when ElevenLabs is metered?
Because raw ElevenLabs is a TTS API — you still need to detect chapters, lock pronunciations, run QC, master the loudness, build the M4B, and embed metadata for Audible. That's the studio's job. We do all of it. ElevenLabs (and Fish, and Hume) is one part of our stack.
Can I clone my own voice?
Yes. Pro tier ($249) includes a 3-second voice clone via Sesame CSM-1B — Apache 2.0, near-ElevenLabs quality. Max tier ($499) includes a premium long-sample clone via ElevenLabs Pro Voice Clone for the highest fidelity. Both are reusable across all your future books.
Does it work for non-English books?
Yes. ElevenLabs v3 covers 70+ languages on Pro/Max. OpenAI gpt-4o-mini-tts covers 29 more as a fallback. For Indian languages — Hindi, Bengali, Tamil, Telugu, Marathi, Gujarati, Punjabi and more — we run our own Cloudflare worker on Sarvam Bulbul / IndicTTS. No other audiobook tool handles the billion-reader Indic market.
What about ACX / Audible distribution?
Max tier ships Audible-ready M4B with chapter markers, embedded cover art, and the metadata bundle Audible/Apple/Spotify each require. You upload, you keep 100% of royalties. ACX takes 25–40% for life. We take a one-time $499 and never touch your sales.
Per book or subscription?
Per book. Always. No subscription. No recharge. No credit packs. You pay $149 (or $249 or $499), we render, you own the files. Sample 1 chapter free at Base quality before you commit — no watermark, no tricks.
What if a chapter sounds wrong?
Re-render it. Base includes unlimited re-renders for 30 days; Pro includes 5; Max includes them as part of the QA flow. The render pipeline is deterministic per voice — same input, same output — so you can edit your manuscript and re-render only the changed chapters.