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.

Our First B2B Publishing Integration

Our first B2B publishing integration marks a major milestone in connecting external author platforms directly to the Spoken Studio. (Yep—we’re taking the show on the road!)

Through this new integration, authors can now seamlessly transfer their manuscripts into Spoken from partnered platforms to then proceed through the automated narration process, whether using single, dual, or multi character multi voice. 

This is a key step toward our mission to empower authors with world-class audio tools, making professional, multi-voice narration accessible from the platforms where they already produce and distribute their written work.

More integrations are on the way—this is just the beginning.

Voice Prompt Clarity (Custom Voice Creation)

When creating a custom voice, users will now get clearer input feedback when entering prompts:

• A live character count now displays: “X characters (100min – 300max)”

• The input field now enforces a 300-character limit to avoid silent errors

• The Generate button clearly disables when the prompt falls outside the allowed range

This helps eliminate confusion and improves usability during voice creation.

Stability Improvements for Narration Flow

To protect your projects during heavy processing, we’ve introduced automatic locking of editing tools while narration is in progress. During generation, casting, or narration:

• Controls for voice changes, passage edits, or deletion are temporarily disabled

• Users can cancel the process manually at any time, which unlocks all options again

This change prevents workflow conflicts and ensures a smoother narration experience.

Additional Fixes & Improvements

We’ve added automatic cleanup for empty passages, resolved inconsistencies in channel tag display, and ensured updated voice prompts appear immediately in the interface. Character order in the Voices tab now remains consistent across installments.

Multicast Upgrades Are Coming

We're on the verge of a transformative upgrade to our multicast passage preparation, making it faster, smarter, more automated, and more scalable. This will be a significant leap forward in how multi-voice projects are built and perfected.

Stay tuned—this one’s big.

Spoken Beta v0.9.0 Release Notes: Automated Narration with Magic Button, and Self-Service Downloads

Spoken gets even more powerful with the v0.9.0 release. We’re continuing our mission to make audiobook creation as seamless—and magical—as possible. This release introduces full manuscript automation via the new “Feeling Lucky?” toggle, letting users generate a fully narrated, fully cast project in one click. We’re also rolling out automated delivery of downloadable project files, removing friction for authors who want to take their audiobook with them.

Automated Audiobook Creation (The “Magic” Button)

We’ve always said Spoken should feel like magic—and now it does.
With the new “Feeling Lucky?” toggle, authors can choose to let Spoken take the reins completely.

After you’ve selected Auto-Generate a Custom Voice for every character, this incredible new feature becomes available. When you enable it, the familiar Make Spoken button becomes Make Spoken Magic, triggering a fully automated process that:

• Generates custom character voices across your manuscript using either Hume AI or ElevenLabs

• Automatically narrates every passage using those voices

• Delivers a complete, polished audiobook with zero manual effort

No casting. No narration setup. Just one click, and your story comes to life—ready for intros, mastering, and publishing.

Self-Service “Take It With You” (TIWU)

With our new Self-Service Take It With You system, authors receive their fully mastered, industry-standard audiobook files instantly via email—dispatched directly into your inbox the moment you hit download. The entire process is fully automated, with files packaged and delivered into your hands.

Here’s how it works:

• Click Download on any published project, then click on “Take It With You (TIWU)”

• Spoken will email you the full TIWU package, with MP3 files for every installment

Instant access to your files, whenever you need them.

Spoken Integrates Hume AI to Help Storytellers Tell Stories With More Emotion

Spoken has integrated Hume AI’s Text-to-Speech as the team here strives to offer intuitive, engaging audio performances for its authors. "Spoken's integration of Hume AI is empowering authors to create more emotionally resonant, performance-driven audiobooks. The voices are studio grade, emotive, and, with Hume, we’re now able to cast voices for teen and children characters. That’s something our fiction authors in particular have been asking for,” said Spoken CEO and Founder Phil Marshall. 

Hume AI Chief Operating Officer Janet Ho elaborated on how Spoken is utilizing Hume’s voices. “Phil and his team have designed an intuitive technology that’s evolving at a fast pace. We’ve witnessed their progress in beta and are excited to see their product in full production. When they came to us in search of a voice partner, our focus on highly empathetic voices was a perfect fit. Now, as we listen to the stories that are streaming on Spoken with Hume AI voices, we can hear for ourselves what a great collaboration this is.”

As Spoken nears the end of its beta phase, we’re positioned to be a go-to resource for authors and their publishing and distribution partners. Breakthrough and bestselling authors alike are using Spoken’s studio and Hume’s voices to create audio projects that never would have been heard before, whether single narrator, dual narrator or multi-cast, and across every genre.

Spoken author Jessica Wheeler shared her recent experience in using the platform’s automated option for voice generation, “I absolutely love the generator. I feel like the quality is even better.” She also elaborated on the addition of Hume voices to Spoken’s library. “I”m very excited about the different ages for voice selections. The Hume voices are really good! Getting a child's voice is huge and I know other authors on Spoken are requesting that quite a bit.” 

Marshall is utilizing the Spoken studio to narrate and promote his own debut science fiction novel, Taming the Perilous Skies, which is scheduled to release in September. “We founded Spoken to give indie authors like myself an accessible and affordable path to success with producing high-quality audio. We’re thrilled to partner with Hume AI to help us achieve that goal.” 

Some of the most sought–after creator features in AI narration are found within the Spoken studio experience, including:

• Automated analysis of story for summary, comparable works, smart topic tags, and safety ratings

• Automated analysis of narrative style and every character for automated custom voice narration

•  Emotive voices across all languages and demographics 

•  Fine-tuning control over pitch, emotion, volume, speed and delivery of every passage, with audiobook quality mastering to ensure a great end result

• Options for single, multi-cast and dual narration (we heard ya, romance writers)

• Personal voice cloning and real-life voice recording for personalized introductions

• Custom pronunciation lexicon to ensure unique words sound perfect (yep, we heard you too, sci-fi crowd)

• Marketing assets to use on social channels, websites and newsletters

• Chapter excerpts to use as lead magnets teasers for multi-chapter audiobooks, sample projects, short works, etc.

To listen to or create a narrated audio project on Spoken, visit www.spoken.press and follow @spoken.press on social. 

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