Audiobook Production

Audio is where a meaningful share of book consumption now happens, and it reaches readers who will never buy a print copy: commuters, walkers, people who read with their hands busy, and readers with visual impairments or print disabilities.

It starts with the narrator, which is the decision that matters most. You audition candidates reading a passage from your actual book — not a generic sample — and choose. Accent, age, warmth, pace and the ability to hold distinct character voices all matter, and the right choice is specific to your book.

Recording happens in a treated studio to retail audio specification. A director sits in for fiction and memoir, catching mispronunciations, flattened emotional beats and inconsistent character voices while they can still be fixed in the same session rather than in a costly pickup.

Post-production is invisible and essential: editing out breaths and mouth noise, correcting room tone between takes so the join is inaudible, mastering to the loudness and noise-floor requirements retailers enforce. Then proof-listening — a person listening to the entire book against the text, catching skipped words and repeated lines that automated checks miss.

Files are delivered chapter by chapter, correctly named and tagged, at retail specification. Pricing depends on finished hours, narrator and whether direction is included, so it is quoted after we see the manuscript.