Audiobooks

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

Available on Creator and above. Open it from a book's rooms on the bookshelf, or from the room switcher at the top of the screen.

The pages

1. Narrators and voices — the two narrators, their voices and what each costs. Every voice has a free sample.
2. Performance direction — the reading plan, character voices, cues and the auto-director.
3. Recording and cost — passages, re-recording only what changed, pricing and cancelling.
4. Proof-listening and checks — listening along, approving takes, and the automatic check.
5. Delivery and stores — the mastered files, and where you can actually sell an AI-narrated audiobook.
6. Listening — the player that follows you around the app.
7. The narration assistant — what the Narration Director sees and offers on each stage.

Four stages

① Voice — choose the narrator and the voice, cast characters, and fix pronunciations. Listen to any voice before you spend a credit. ② Script — decide what is read (credits, front and back matter, headings, pauses) and how each passage is performed. ③ Record — record, listen along, approve takes, give a passage a new take, and check the audio. ④ Release — pick the stores you'll sell on, build the mastered release, and download each store's files, named the way it wants them.

These are a running order, not a progress bar. Moving between them is always free; only the actions gate, and only on real state — no voice chosen, nothing recorded.

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 recorded again, and only those are charged. Fix a typo on page 200 and you re-record 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

In ② Script and ③ Record the main object is the script itself, with each passage a card carrying its state. Recorded, approved and verified are three different marks: recorded means there is audio, approved means you listened and accepted it, and verified means the automatic check heard the right words. A passage nobody has checked never displays as having passed.