Manuscript Studio

Audiobooks

The Narration Studio — AI narration in four stages, per-passage re-rendering, narrator engines, performance direction, quality checking and store-ready delivery.

Manuscript Studio narrates a book with AI voices and packages the result the way audiobook stores expect.

Available on Creator and above. Open it from the bookshelf's ⋯ menu, or the header's book menu.

The pages

  1. Narrators and voices — the engines, what each plan reaches, and auditioning before you commit.
  2. Performance direction — cues, cast voices, and the auto-tagger.
  3. Rendering and cost — passages, punch-and-roll re-rendering, pricing and cancelling.
  4. Quality checking — catching the two failures that are otherwise silent.
  5. Delivery and stores — what a store-ready package contains, and where you can actually sell it.
  6. Listening — the player that follows you around the app.

Four stages

① Setup — pick the engine and voice, and audition them. ② Tag — optional performance direction, by hand or auto-tagged. ③ Render — synthesise. Priced by length, quoted before you spend. ④ Edit — review, re-render individual passages, check quality.

Like the other studios, these are a running order rather than a progress bar. Moving between them is always free; only the terminal actions gate, and only on real state — no voice selected, nothing to render.

The idea that makes it usable

The book is cut into passages at scene and paragraph boundaries, and each passage is content-hashed.

Only passages whose content changed are re-rendered, and only those are charged. Fix a typo on page 200 and you re-narrate that passage, not the book.

This is punch-and-roll — the technique real narrators use — and it is what makes narrating a book you are still editing affordable rather than a one-shot bet.

The script is the canvas

Unlike the Cover and Promotion studios, which centre on a fixed-aspect artwork you zoom and pan, the Narration Studio's main object is a long scrolling script. So there is no zoom or fit here; it reads like the editor, with the transport where the zoom controls would be.

Each passage is a card carrying its state, and rendered and verified are two different marks — a passage that has never been checked never displays as having passed.