How much does it cost to produce a full audiobook?

$5-$49 per book depending on voice tier and length. The Novel credit pack ($9 / ₹599) covers a typical 80,000-word novel on Standard voices. Premium voices cost 3x credits. Compare: an ACX human narrator costs $2,000-$4,000 per book.

Is voice cloning legal?

Voice cloning is legal when you have rights to the source audio. AudiobookMaker's cloning is consent-gated — you confirm rights to the uploaded sample. Common legal uses: clone your own voice, clone a voice you've licensed from a hired narrator with consent, clone public-domain audio. Don't clone celebrities without permission.

Do you deliver to ACX/Audible?

M4B exports meet ACX/Audible specs — chapter markers, RMS levels, peak levels, max chapter length. Validate-for-ACX runs before each export. You upload the finished file to ACX yourself. Direct ACX submission is on the roadmap.

What's the difference between MP3 and M4B export?

MP3 is a single audio file with no chapter awareness. M4B is the audiobook standard — single file with embedded chapter markers, ID3 tags, and cover art. Audible, Apple Books, and most audiobook platforms require M4B. Use MP3 for podcast distribution or your own site, M4B for audiobook retailers.

How long does each chapter take to render?

Roughly real-time on Standard voices — a 30-minute chapter takes about 30 minutes to generate on Qwen3-TTS via Replicate. Premium voices are faster but cost more credits. You can preview chapter 1 within seconds while the rest of the book renders in the background.

Is AudiobookMaker suitable for Indian authors?

Yes — and it's the only AI audiobook tool with INR pricing. The Novel pack is ₹599. Author subscription is ₹1,499/mo. Most competitors charge USD only ($9-$50+ per book), which prices Indian indie authors out.

Can I use a free trial?

Yes. Free tier is always available — 10 minutes per month on Kokoro open-source TTS, watermarked preview. Enough to test the workflow on your first chapter before committing to a paid plan. No credit card required.

Can I assign different voices to different characters?

Yes — automatically. Open the Voice Cast panel. AudiobookMaker detects character dialogue from your manuscript and lets you assign one voice per character. Narrator voice plays prose, character voices play dialogue. True audio drama from a single workflow.

AudiobookMaker

AI Audiobook Studio

Studio narrator: $4,000. Audio engineer: $800. Distribution prep: $400. Us: $149.

Drop your manuscript. Pick a voice. We render, master, and ship a studio-quality audiobook with chapter markers and Audible-ready M4B. Hours, not months.

No watermark. No subscription. One-time $149.

Here's what an audiobook actually costs.

A friend hired a professional narrator for her novel last year. The studio quoted $4,200 for the narration.

Then $800 for the audio engineer to master each chapter to broadcast loudness.

Then $400 to package the M4B with chapter markers and metadata for Audible.

Then 25–40% of every sale to ACX. For life.

$5,400 up front. Royalty share forever.Six months of back-and-forth. Most authors don't do it. They publish ebook-only and tell themselves it doesn't matter.

We rebuilt the whole stack. Same outcome. $149. You keep 100%.

30×

Cheaper than studio production

70+

Languages supported

Royalty share — you keep all of it

Hours

Not months

Three steps. No timeline.

Drop your manuscript.

DOCX. EPUB. PDF. Paste from anywhere. We auto-detect chapters and clean the formatting.

Pick a voice. Or your own.

70+ studio voices. Or clone your voice from a 3-second sample. Pro casts characters separately.

We render. You ship.

Confidence-checked. Mastered to -23 LUFS. M4B with chapter markers. Audible-ready. Done.

The Pipeline Moat

Models are commodities. Pipelines are products.

Anyone can call ElevenLabs. We do, when it's the right tool. We also call Fish Audio S2 Pro (TTS-Arena #1), Hume TADA (zero-hallucination single-pass for full chapters), and Sesame CSM-1B (3-second voice cloning, Apache 2.0).

But the model is 60% of the answer. The other 40% is the editorial pipeline that nobody else runs:

Whisper-large-v3 confidence QC. We re-listen to every chapter and regenerate any sentence below 92% confidence. You never hear a mispronounced name.
EBU R128 mastering. Loudness-normalized to -23 LUFS, silence-trimmed, declicked. What broadcast engineers do for podcasts.
Story-bible IPA pronunciation lock. Character and place names auto-extracted, phoneme-locked, and injected as SSML across every chapter. Your protagonist sounds the same on chapter 1 and chapter 27.

The pipeline is the product. The model is just the tool we hand the pipeline.

What you get vs what they sell.

We're the only row with all of these.

Feature	AudiobookMaker	ElevenLabs	Fish Story Studio	ACX/Audible	Speechki
Studio-grade quality				yes (human)
Confidence QC + auto-retry				yes (human)
EBU R128 mastering on every chapter				yes (human)
Pronunciation lock from bible		manual SSML		yes (human)
Multi-character casting	yes (Pro+)	manual
Voice cloning	yes (Pro+)	yes (premium)
Audible-ready M4B
Indic languages		limited
Royalty share	0%	n/a	n/a	25–40% for life	n/a
Time to finish	hours	hours	hours	3–6 months	n/a
Price per book	$149–499	API metered	subscription	$2,000–4,000	$50+ + ads

Three tiers. Per book. No subscription.

Sample 1 chapter free at Base quality before you commit. No watermark.

Base

$149/book

Studio-quality single-narrator audiobook. Yours forever.

Fish Audio S2 Pro (TTS-Arena #1)
Confidence-checked rendering
EBU R128 mastering pass
Pronunciation lock from your bible
MP3 + M4B with chapter markers
Unlimited re-renders for 30 days

Most picked

Pro

$249/book

Multi-character + emotion + voice cloning included.

Everything in Base
ElevenLabs v3 (70+ languages)
Multi-character casting
Emotion control via Hume Octave 2
Voice cloning (your voice, 3-sec sample)
5 free re-renders for chapter edits

Max

$499/book

Premium polish. Distribution prep. Human QA.

Everything in Pro
Hume TADA (700-second single-pass)
ElevenLabs Pro Voice Clone (long-sample)
Audible / Apple / Spotify metadata
Human QA review of first 3 chapters
Priority queue + dedicated support

Voice clone add-on +$49 (one-time, reusable across all your books). Available on Base; included in Pro/Max.

A year from now.

You could still be the author with the ebook-only catalog.

Or your readers could be listening on Audible.

We can't make you publish. But we can make sure "an audiobook costs $5,000"isn't the reason you didn't.

Real questions.

The stuff people email us about before signing up.

Your readers want to listen.

The audiobook market grew 25% last year. You have 80,000 words ready.

Sample 1 chapter free at Base quality. No watermark.

AudiobookMaker

AI Audiobook Studio

Studio narrator: $4,000. Audio engineer: $800. Distribution prep: $400. Us: $149.

Drop your manuscript. Pick a voice. We render, master, and ship a studio-quality audiobook with chapter markers and Audible-ready M4B. Hours, not months.

No watermark. No subscription. One-time $149.

Here's what an audiobook actually costs.

A friend hired a professional narrator for her novel last year. The studio quoted $4,200 for the narration.

Then $800 for the audio engineer to master each chapter to broadcast loudness.

Then $400 to package the M4B with chapter markers and metadata for Audible.

Then 25–40% of every sale to ACX. For life.

$5,400 up front. Royalty share forever.Six months of back-and-forth. Most authors don't do it. They publish ebook-only and tell themselves it doesn't matter.

We rebuilt the whole stack. Same outcome. $149. You keep 100%.

30×

Cheaper than studio production

70+

Languages supported

Royalty share — you keep all of it

Hours

Not months

Three steps. No timeline.

Drop your manuscript.

DOCX. EPUB. PDF. Paste from anywhere. We auto-detect chapters and clean the formatting.

Pick a voice. Or your own.

70+ studio voices. Or clone your voice from a 3-second sample. Pro casts characters separately.

We render. You ship.

Confidence-checked. Mastered to -23 LUFS. M4B with chapter markers. Audible-ready. Done.

The Pipeline Moat

Models are commodities. Pipelines are products.

But the model is 60% of the answer. The other 40% is the editorial pipeline that nobody else runs:

Whisper-large-v3 confidence QC. We re-listen to every chapter and regenerate any sentence below 92% confidence. You never hear a mispronounced name.
EBU R128 mastering. Loudness-normalized to -23 LUFS, silence-trimmed, declicked. What broadcast engineers do for podcasts.
Story-bible IPA pronunciation lock. Character and place names auto-extracted, phoneme-locked, and injected as SSML across every chapter. Your protagonist sounds the same on chapter 1 and chapter 27.

The pipeline is the product. The model is just the tool we hand the pipeline.

What you get vs what they sell.

We're the only row with all of these.

Feature	AudiobookMaker	ElevenLabs	Fish Story Studio	ACX/Audible	Speechki
Studio-grade quality				yes (human)
Confidence QC + auto-retry				yes (human)
EBU R128 mastering on every chapter				yes (human)
Pronunciation lock from bible		manual SSML		yes (human)
Multi-character casting	yes (Pro+)	manual
Voice cloning	yes (Pro+)	yes (premium)
Audible-ready M4B
Indic languages		limited
Royalty share	0%	n/a	n/a	25–40% for life	n/a
Time to finish	hours	hours	hours	3–6 months	n/a
Price per book	$149–499	API metered	subscription	$2,000–4,000	$50+ + ads

Three tiers. Per book. No subscription.

Sample 1 chapter free at Base quality before you commit. No watermark.

Base

$149/book

Studio-quality single-narrator audiobook. Yours forever.

Fish Audio S2 Pro (TTS-Arena #1)
Confidence-checked rendering
EBU R128 mastering pass
Pronunciation lock from your bible
MP3 + M4B with chapter markers
Unlimited re-renders for 30 days

Most picked

Pro

$249/book

Multi-character + emotion + voice cloning included.

Everything in Base
ElevenLabs v3 (70+ languages)
Multi-character casting
Emotion control via Hume Octave 2
Voice cloning (your voice, 3-sec sample)
5 free re-renders for chapter edits

Max

$499/book

Premium polish. Distribution prep. Human QA.

Everything in Pro
Hume TADA (700-second single-pass)
ElevenLabs Pro Voice Clone (long-sample)
Audible / Apple / Spotify metadata
Human QA review of first 3 chapters
Priority queue + dedicated support

Voice clone add-on +$49 (one-time, reusable across all your books). Available on Base; included in Pro/Max.

A year from now.

You could still be the author with the ebook-only catalog.

Or your readers could be listening on Audible.

We can't make you publish. But we can make sure "an audiobook costs $5,000"isn't the reason you didn't.

Real questions.

The stuff people email us about before signing up.

Your readers want to listen.

The audiobook market grew 25% last year. You have 80,000 words ready.

Sample 1 chapter free at Base quality. No watermark.

Studio narrator: $4,000. Audio engineer: $800. Distribution prep: $400. Us: $149.

Here's what an audiobook actually costs.

Three steps. No timeline.

Drop your manuscript.

Pick a voice. Or your own.

We render. You ship.

Models are commodities. Pipelines are products.

What you get vs what they sell.

Three tiers. Per book. No subscription.

Base

Pro

Max

A year from now.

Real questions.

Will this sound like AI?

Why $149 when ElevenLabs is metered?

Can I clone my own voice?

Does it work for non-English books?

What about ACX / Audible distribution?

Per book or subscription?

What if a chapter sounds wrong?

Your readers want to listen.

Studio narrator: $4,000. Audio engineer: $800. Distribution prep: $400. Us: $149.

Here's what an audiobook actually costs.

Three steps. No timeline.

Drop your manuscript.

Pick a voice. Or your own.

We render. You ship.

Models are commodities. Pipelines are products.

What you get vs what they sell.

Three tiers. Per book. No subscription.

Base

Pro

Max

A year from now.

Real questions.

Will this sound like AI?

Why $149 when ElevenLabs is metered?

Can I clone my own voice?

Does it work for non-English books?

What about ACX / Audible distribution?

Per book or subscription?

What if a chapter sounds wrong?

Your readers want to listen.