Narrate your book without booking a studio
Studio narration bills by the finished hour, and it bills again when chapter twelve comes back from your editor with three changed sentences. That arithmetic is what keeps most manuscripts out of audio. Here the arithmetic runs the other way: generate the chapter, listen, edit a line, and regenerate only that line — every untouched paragraph replays from cache without being charged again.
Dialogue gets a real cast instead of one narrator doing voices. Label speakers the way a screenplay does, assign each character a voice once, and the scene renders as a single seamless track — level-matched, with a natural beat at every turn. Your protagonist sounds the same in chapter one and in the epilogue of the sequel.
The volume works for book-length projects: an eighty-thousand-word novel is roughly 450,000 characters, comfortably inside a single month of the mid-tier plan. Character allowances are sized for manuscripts, not samples — the plans below show exactly how many characters each includes.
No signup needed — the demo speaks up to 500 characters.
✏️ Try changing CRANE's line — only that line re-renders.
How it works for authors & audiobook creators
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Add character names, place names, and invented terms to the pronunciation dictionary before chapter one, so every voice in the cast says them the same way.
- 2
Paste a chapter with speaker labels on dialogue paragraphs, assign each character a voice in the cast panel, and keep your narrator as the default voice.
- 3
Generate the chapter as one seamless, level-matched file and skim it against the manuscript with the companion captions.
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When revisions land, edit the changed lines and regenerate — only those lines are charged, and the re-stitched chapter is ready to re-export.
A cast, not a narrator doing voices
Each character keeps one consistent voice across every scene, chapter, and sequel — assigned once in the cast panel, never drifting.
Revisions cost the revision
Editing one line re-bills only that line. The rest of the chapter replays from cache, so a late copyedit doesn't re-buy the book.
Names spoken your way
Invented places, fantasy names, foreign terms: pronunciation rules lock them once and hold for hundreds of pages and every voice in the cast.
Chapters in bulk
Upload a CSV with one row per chapter and download a zip of finished files. A bad row fails alone — and is never charged.
26 studio voices · 20 output languages · SRT captions and bulk mode on every plan
Pricing that doesn't punish volume
Simple monthly plans plus one-time top-up packs that never expire.
free
$0/mo
Try everything, every month
- 10,000 characters/mo
- 3 AI scripts/mo
- Bulk: 5 rows/batch
- SRT captions
- Spoken outro on audio
creator
$7/mo
≈ 3 hours of audio
- 300,000 characters/mo
- 50 AI scripts/mo
- Bulk: 25 rows/batch
- SRT captions
- No watermark
channel
$15/mo
≈ 7.5 hours + priority queue
- 750,000 characters/mo
- Unlimited scripts
- Unlimited bulk batches
- SRT captions
- No watermark
- Priority queue
agency
$39/mo
≈ 20 hours + 3 seats
- 2,000,000 characters/mo
- Unlimited scripts
- Unlimited bulk batches
- SRT captions
- No watermark
- Priority queue
- 3 seats
- API access (coming soon)
| Entry paid plan | Price | Credits / chars | Audio / month | Cost per hour |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ToneCraft | $7/mo | 300,000 chars | ≈ 3 hours | ≈ $2.33 |
| ElevenLabs (Creator) | $22/mo | 121,000 credits | ≈ 1.2 hours | ≈ $18 |
| Murf (Creator) | $29/mo | —* | 2 hours | $14.50 |
* Murf's Creator plan is sold by voice-generation time (2 hours/month), not a characters or credits pool — so we leave that cell blank rather than invent a number.
≈ hours assume ~100,000 characters per finished hour; where a provider sells characters or credits we convert with the same rule. Verified against published pricing as of July 13, 2026 — check their sites for current plans.
Questions, answered
How many characters is a typical book?
A useful rule of thumb is that one minute of narration is about a thousand characters. An eighty-thousand-word novel runs roughly 450,000 characters — around seven and a half hours of finished audio — which fits inside a single month of the mid-tier plan, with room left for revisions.
Can different characters have different voices?
Yes — that's the point. Start a dialogue paragraph with a speaker label, assign each label a voice in the cast panel, and the scene renders as one continuous, level-matched track. Unlabeled narration uses your default narrator voice, and the label characters themselves aren't charged.
What does a revision cost after the chapter is generated?
Only the characters in the paragraphs you actually changed. Unchanged paragraphs are served from cache at no extra charge, so a proofreading pass that touches ten sentences bills ten sentences, not the chapter.
Do I own the audio, and can I sell it?
You own what you generate: our speech provider assigns output rights to the generating account, and we pass them through to you in full — including for audiobooks you sell. One rule carries through from those terms: don't present generated narration as a human recording where that would mislead your listeners. A plain note that the audiobook is AI-narrated keeps you covered.
What happens if a chapter fails partway?
Failed generations refund automatically — the characters go straight back to your balance without a support ticket. Retrying also reuses everything already generated successfully, so you never pay twice for the same paragraph.