Spoken Beta: V0.9.6 Release Notes: API Unleashed, Multi-Cast Upgrade, and the Sound of Spoken

Another Leap Forward in Full-Cast Narrative Cohesion – Spoken Studio API Unleashed with an Easy-Peasy Integration Option – 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.

MCMV (Multi-Cast/Full-Cast narration): Another leap forward

We’ve continued refining our MCMV (Multi-Character Multi-Voice) system from our previous release, expanding the engine’s ability to generate expertly accurate emotional cues and natural pacing for complex, cast-driven projects. These enhancements unlock tremendously more immersive, natural, and studio-quality performances for full-cast audiobooks.

Spoken Studio API Integration Framework

This release marks a major milestone: Spoken’s B2B tools are now live and publicly available. Whether you’re a developer, publisher, or platform looking to supercharge your user experience, API.Spoken.press unlocks fast, scalable, and high-quality audio production—programmatically.

The fastest, easiest way to create full-cast audiobooks—now open to all.

Spoken Studio API Easy-Peasy Integration Option

Industry partners can seamlessly connect users to a fully pre-configured Studio environment with a single authentication and project-driven link. Great for distributors of indie-author works!

Pass in your own external Project ID and Client ID to spin up audio projects instantly.

Full Spoken Studio API for full-service partners

Fully integrate project creation, management, and narration of all types of works using Spoken's Studio API.

Scalable Audio Workflows

From demos to full-scale rollouts—Spoken powers millions of listening experiences.

Learn more and explore documentation at API.Spoken.press

New: “Made With Spoken” Audio Logo

Every Spoken story now opens with a cinematic jingle and voiceover tag—“Made With Spoken”—crafted with our in-house HumeAI voice. It’s crisp, distinct, and unmistakably us.

Listen to it HERE

Faster Performance

Expect noticeably faster analysis and parsing across the board. We’ve implemented infrastructure-level speed improvements that make the Studio feel more fluid and responsive.

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.

Smarter Parsing, Natural Performance

Our parsing mechanic now operates at a more granular level, adjusting rhythm and spacing to reflect the natural cadence of your story. Padding logic has been reworked to better mirror the expectations of professional audiobooks—introducing well-timed pauses at punctuation, line breaks, speaker transitions, and more. The result is narration that flows with intention, clarity, and a distinctly human rhythm.

Emotional Cueing—Leveled Up

We’ve enhanced our emotional detection and instruction engine, enabling deeper, more expressive performances from every voice. We now generate more specific, fine-grained emotional instructions for each passage and line of dialogue, resulting in noticeably richer and more nuanced performances. It’s a major step forward in capturing the emotional heartbeat of every story.

A Milestone in Multi-Character, Multi-Voice (MCMV) Narration

This release pushes our MCMV narration to a new level. As more creators adopt multi-character formats, Spoken is becoming the definitive platform for layered, cast-driven storytelling at scale. This upgrade lays critical groundwork for even more transformative leaps coming soon in multicast preparation.

Terms of Service Update

We’ve updated our Terms of Service to clarify how Service-Narrated Content may be accessed and distributed. Please review the latest version in your account settings for full details.

https://ihave.spoken.press/tos

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.