Spoken is the AI Studio built by authors for authors. It enables writers to transform their manuscripts into expressive, studio-grade audiobooks. This is a logo the tagline "Help storytellers. Tell stories."

Your Book, Spoken

For the first time ever, writers can create quality, multi-cast, AI audiobooks within a studio built for authors, by authors

Audiobook creation has never been this easy, or as affordable. (Or, this good.)

Spoken Studio helps authors take advantage of the latest AI technology — all without sacrificing creative rights. 

Spoken deeply analyzes each work and character to recommend or custom generate the perfect voices. These voices, whether of voice actors or character-generated, are used to craft the perfect single, dual or multi-cast narration.

Spoken Studio helps authors create digitally-narrated audiobooks they can download and publish. Spoken performs unparalleled analysis of each story to recommend (and create) the perfect voices. Choose from clones of real voice actors , or create custom-generated digital voices designed for how you wrote your characters – performed with great, natural delivery.

  • "I’m so appreciative of what Spoken.press is doing for indie authors. This service is a total game-changer."

    — Marty Ray Watson

  • “I’ve been experimenting with AI voices off and on since 2020, and the Spoken Platform is the best I’ve used so far."

    – Franetta McMillian

  • "I can't wait to see how this product moves forward, because it is already leaps and bounds ahead of everyone else.”

    – Carmi Cason

  • “As an indie fantasy author, Spoken gave me a studio-quality way to narrate my own books with the flexibility and control I needed – something I hadn’t found anywhere else."

    – T.M. McEvoy

  • “Using Spoken to bring my writing to life has been an absolute walk in the park."

    – Brian Robertson

  • "The incredible library of included voices combined with their new media packages has opened up creative possibilities I never had with other AI audio alternatives."

    – Jeffrey Zyjeski

  • "After listening to one of Spoken’s staff picks, I was impressed by the production quality. Creating my own, I was equally struck by the platform’s intuitive design and ease of use."

    – Steve Lance

  • “I love the choice of narrators. They are so expressive when they read the story, and it makes the audio creation easy.”

    – Karen Roberts

  • “I found the process simple, easy to use, and entertaining. And the customer service was... GASP... real people.”

    – Gina X. Grant

  • "I am so honored to be part of this pioneering community of creators and sincerely grateful for the role that Spoken has played in my development as a writer and storyteller."

    – Jessica Wheeler

  • Spoken Studio makes producing audiobooks an absolute snap. Far faster than anything else on the market.

    – Tiffany Kohnen

  • I think what Spoken provides for me, as a screenwriter, content creator, and indie film director, is absolutely unprecedented.

    – Ken Klein

Clips from inside the Spoken Studio -- a cutting-edge AI studio built by authors for authors, for the purposes of producing high quality Audiobooks for distribution and streaming

A New Era of Storytelling 

And Spoken is the Gateway for Authors

Listening is the new reading, and more people are doing it every day. Now, indie authors can meet listeners where they are – with access to affordable, high-quality AI audiobook narration through the Spoken Studio.

Designed specifically for storytellers, by storytellers, Spoken offers a seamless studio experience that’s intuitive, timely and always improving. We’ve been testing multi-voice AI narration in beta for nearly a year, incorporating feedback from New York Times bestselling authors as well as emerging writers. Whether writers prefer single narrator, dual narrators, or a full-cast of them, Spoken creators are able to publish and download their audiobooks, opening a whole new gateway of income, discovery and momentum in their author journeys.

STORIES

SPOKEN

STORIES SPOKEN

In a skewed mirror universe, a mentally ill young man searches for his grandfather’s killer while battling inner demons and manipulative forces that surround him.

Book cover for 'Broken Mirror' by Cody Sisco, Made With Spoken -- the one-of-a-kind AI Narration Studio built by authors, for authors.

A teenage girl cursed as the Horseman of War must stop an immortal enemy from rewriting creation with stolen biblical relics—or watch humanity fall into something worse than Hell.

Book cover for 'Sackcloth and Blood, Vol. 1: War. Written by acclaimed authors Joseph Nassise (New York Times Bestseller) and Spawn Author Tom Leveen. Made With Spoken.

In Kill Your Darlings, a writer discovers a macabre anthology penned in blood—and a mysterious pen that may hold dominion over life itself.

A cozy, rustic living room with a stone fireplace, leather armchairs, and a large window showing a man overlooking a rainy mountain landscape. Spoken's very first mutli-cast/full-cast AI audio novella.

Thanks to the Spoken Beta Authors

Spoken is a unique platform. We combined familiar elements of social, community, and streaming apps with cutting-edge creative tools, including responsible AI analysis and advanced voice technology.

We haven’t seen anything like it before. We wanted to do it right. And through the help of our Beta users, we have.

Since July 22, 2024, the Beta has been free for all, authors and listeners. As a small bootstrapped startup, we have accepted authors by request into the Spoken Studio. (Our team reviewed each request personally.) We’ve met many of them at conferences and have interviewed them from afar to find out how we could meet their needs (and blow their minds away) with advancements along the way.

As we come out of Beta this summer, we’re ready to help authors give voice to their writing in ways they’ve never been able to before — affordably and with the highest quality available in AI audiobook narration. Thanks, Beta users! You’re part of our story, and we’re honored to be part of yours.

The Spoken Chronicle
Spoken Into Existence Speaks Volumes (Literally)
Spoken Into Existence Speaks Volumes (Literally)
Spoken Beta: V0.9.6 Release Notes: API Unleashed, Multi-Cast Upgrade, and the Sound of Spoken
Spoken Beta: V0.9.6 Release Notes: API Unleashed, Multi-Cast Upgrade, and the Sound of Spoken

Spoken Studio is now open to the world. Our public API lets publishers and platforms generate full-cast audiobooks programmatically. Since our last release, we’ve supercharged MCMV even further. With deeper emotional cues and wickedly smart cadence. Spoken’s performances now sound more alive than ever. And with every first installment, listeners will hear our new audio logo—’Made With Spoken’—paired with our jingle. A signature sound for a new standard in spoken storytelling.

Spoken Beta: V0.9.4 Release Notes: Natural Cadence, Emotional Precision, and Massive MCMV Level Up
Spoken Beta: V0.9.4 Release Notes: Natural Cadence, Emotional Precision, and Massive MCMV Level Up

Spoken just got sharper, smoother, and more emotionally tuned. This release introduces a significant upgrade to our parsing and narration engine—fine-tuning padding mechanics and emotional cueing to deliver professional-grade pacing and performance across all narration formats.

Spoken Beta v0.9.2 Release Notes: Publishing Integration, Voice Prompt Clarity, and a Multicast Transformation on the Horizon
Spoken Beta v0.9.2 Release Notes: Publishing Integration, Voice Prompt Clarity, and a Multicast Transformation on the Horizon

We’re excited to announce our first publishing integration partnership and several improvements to voice creation, narration clarity, and interface behavior. With major updates to multicast passage preparation just around the corner, this release lays the foundation for faster, smarter audiobook production tools.

The Spoken Chronicle

Use your words.

Trying new things is better with friends! We’ve set up a Subreddit and Discord server for feature requests, help, sharing work, and community updates.

By Storytellers. For Storytellers. 

We believe that giving voice to writing isn’t just for those with resources to create elaborate productions or patience to navigate complex publishing hoops. Spoken was created by a small team of storytellers based in Portland, Oregon who believe in empowering self-publishers.