This release brings major upgrades to how your Spoken projects are cast, customized, and shared. With v0.8.8, we’re introducing a new voice service into both the voice library and custom voice generator, groundbreaking one-click custom voice automation for every character in your story, and marketing kits to equip authors with high-value Spoken assets built for promotion.

Hume AI

We've now integrated Hume AI, featuring their emotionally intelligent voice generation, into both our voice library and custom voice tools. Hume-powered voices support a broad range of character types, accents, and emotional performances.

Automated Custom Voices

Automated Custom Voices allows authors to choose between 11Labs or Hume voices and, with one click, have Spoken analyze their story, identify every character, and generate a unique custom voice for each one. No manual voice selection—just an instant, ready-to-edit cast waiting for you in Passage Editing. Available to use across any of our narration formats.

Child and Teen Character Voices

We’ve added dedicated Child and Teen voices to the Spoken voice roster—ideal for middle grade fiction, YA, or flashback scenes. These new voices are available via Hume.

You’ll find these voices:

Auto-selected when characters are detected as children or teens.
Available in the voice picker listed as “Child”.

Want your young adventurer to sound exactly right? Now they can.

Marketing Kit

You can now promote your Spoken story with professionally packaged assets that come ready to share.

Every published project automatically generates a Marketing Kit with branded cover art formatted for social media. Find your kit on your Project Page after publishing.

Note. The project must be set as public, and have mastering enabled.

Formats available:

Square Image (Instagram)
1080x1920 Vertical Format
1600x900 Horizontal Format

Global Speed and Volume changes

Instead of adjusting speed and volume one passage at a time, you can now set global speed and volume for each character directly from the Voices tab. Just select the voice you want, make your changes, and click Continue—your adjustments will apply across your entire project.

Other Fixes and Changes

We’ve removed the “Basic,” “Enhanced,” and “Advanced” voice tiers. All voices are now categorized simply as Premium or Voice Actor for a cleaner, more consistent experience and higher quality voice choices.

We’ve also removed the Performance Insights button from user profile pages due to its inaccuracy. Users should reply on the play and like counts on project pages.

Lastly, we removed estimated costs of narration because we're still evaluating the options for how best to have our users pay for narration.

Spoken Beta V0.8.8: Hume AI, Automated Custom Voices, and Marketing Kits