Spoken Into Existence Ep 4: Inside The Studio
In Episode 4 of Spoken Into Existence, listeners are invited behind the curtain—into a digital writer’s workshop where story meets sound, and authors transform into audio directors in real time. (Thanks to two bestselling authors, Joseph Nassise and Tom Leveen, for letting us hang out with them.)
This episode is about craft. Specifically, the craft of performance—how every line in a story becomes a sonic event, sculpted with precision inside the Spoken Studio.
We’re no longer simply writing books. We’re building experiences.
Welcome to the Spoken Studio: Creative Control Redefined in the Studio of the Future
This is the future of audiobook creation—interactive, iterative, immediate.
Inside the Spoken Studio, authors like Joseph and Tom aren’t just uploading manuscripts. They’re entering a dynamic production environment where every element of their story—narrator tone, character timbre, emotional pacing—can be dialed in, down to the sentence.
Here, you can:
Generate voices with surgical precision using structured vocal prompts
Adjust performance at the passage level—modifying speed, tone, even emotion
Preview dialog in-scene, evaluating how voices interact in dramatic sequence
Edit narration like you would dialogue in a play, removing unnecessary attributions and letting the voice do the storytelling
And it happens in minutes, not months.
What You See. What You Hear. What You Control.
Watch the manuscript light up with color-coded voice tags. Click into a line. Update the voice, the emotion, the pacing. Need a whisper? Select it. Want a shout? It’s two clicks away. Don’t like how the line lands? Rewrite it—instantly—and generate the new read in seconds.
In the traditional process, these changes would cost time, coordination, and thousands in studio fees. Here, they cost a few keystrokes.
Even complex moments—like summoning the voice of a supernatural antagonist—become part of the toolkit. A blend of AI modeling and manual finesse makes it possible to test, reject, revise, and relaunch a vocal performance until it resonates with narrative intent.
One character (Moxie) might be the testing ground, but the episode reveals something bigger: the blueprint of a new kind of authorship.
This Isn’t Audio Production. It’s Story Architecture.
What we’re witnessing is a tectonic shift in how stories are made.
The Spoken Studio is more than a tool. It’s a co-creative space where authors no longer hand off control—they own it, wield it, and remix it on demand. Just as screenwriters evolved into showrunners, authors now step into the role of sound architects.
It’s not about replacing the page—it’s about building the performance layer. So the question becomes … “When storytelling becomes a form of sound engineering, how does your role as an author evolve?” Discover the answer to that question by entering the studio at Spoken.
Learn more about Joseph Nassise.
Learn more about Tom Leveen.
