Text to speech for publishing
Produce audiobooks across a whole catalog without a studio per title.
- Long-form synthesis for book-length text
- Consistent narrator per title via voice ID
- 30+ languages for international editions
- From $6 per 1M characters
Definition
For publishers, text-to-speech turns a catalog of manuscripts into audiobooks without a studio session per title. The economics change: instead of booking a narrator and a booth for each book, production becomes a synthesis pipeline that runs the same way for the first title and the thousandth.
Catalog scale production
A backlist is the hard part of audiobook production, and the place TTS helps most. Adding a title means running its text through the pipeline, so hundreds of books become a batch job rather than years of scheduling. Each title keeps a fixed voice ID, so its narrator is consistent front to back.
Quality that holds
Readers notice flat narration. SSML controls paragraph pauses, pacing, and emphasis so a synthesized audiobook reads as a performance, not a screen reader. For a flagship title or an author brand, clone a narrator voice and reuse it.
International editions
Publish the same title in more markets by re-synthesizing a translated manuscript with a multilingual voice across 30+ languages, without hiring a narrator per language. See the audiobook narration page.
Pricing
Per character, from $6 per 1M on Scale. See the pricing page.
Frequently asked questions
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Produce audiobooks across a whole catalog without a studio per title.