Proof-listening and checks

A recorded audiobook is not a finished one until someone has listened to it. Stage ③ Record is built for that.

Listen along

▶ Listen from the start (or from the selected passage) plays the recorded passages one after another and follows them in the script, so the text is in front of you as you hear it — the way a proof-listener works.

Approve a take

Select a passage and choose Approve once you have heard it and are happy. Approval is your mark, shown on the card as ✓ approved, and the progress panel counts how much of the book you have heard. A new take of a passage clears its approval, because you have not heard the new one yet.

The automatic check

Check the recorded audio transcribes what was recorded and compares it with your text — with your pronunciation list applied, so a respelled name is not mistaken for an error. It catches the two failures of AI narration that are otherwise silent:

• a skipped or garbled line, and
• a stage direction read aloud instead of performed.

About 1 credit a pass. A passage it could not check is counted as couldn't check, never as a pass. Show flagged filters the script to what needs a look, and Tick all flagged selects them for a new take.

What to watch for

• Verified is not approved. The check hears the right words; only you can tell whether the reading is right.
• Numbers and abbreviations are read differently from how they are written (“19” → “nineteen”), so the check is deliberately generous about them.