Spoken Studio · Magic Mode™
The Spoken Studio Guide to Vivid, Immersive Audiobooks
A complete walkthrough of Spoken Studio's agentic production workflow — from a raw manuscript to a published audiobook, full cast, duet-narrated, or single narrator. Everything you need to produce an audiobook listeners love.
Before You Begin
What is Spoken Studio?
Spoken Studio (with Magic Mode™) is Spoken's agentic path from manuscript to a professionally narrated audiobook — full cast, duet narration, or single narrator, your choice. Upload a manuscript in multiple formats and Spoken detects every character, builds a pronunciation lexicon, casts a distinct AI voice for each speaker, and assembles chapter-by-chapter passages ready for review — without you ever stepping into a recording booth. Across a long-form work, it holds every character's voice consistent, keeps the performance cohesive scene to scene, and reads context closely enough to inflect a line the way the page intended.
Every step stays editable. Nothing here is a black box: override any voice, correct any pronunciation, drop in your own audio, and flag anything that needs a second listen before it ever goes out the door.
This guide walks through the entire workflow end to end — Getting Started, Lexicon, Voices, Passages, and Publish — using real screens captured directly from Spoken Studio.
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Section 01
Getting Started
Project Manager
Upload a manuscript, and Spoken commences a deep analysis of the entire work.
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Welcome to Spoken Studio
Every project starts on one screen: start a brand-new project, jump back into an existing one, hire a Spoken-certified producer, or clone a story just to practice on.
Click Start a New Project to begin from scratch, or Select Existing Project to jump back into one already in progress.
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Upload the manuscript
Name the project, then bring the manuscript in however it already exists — Word, ePub, PDF, or plain text.
Name the project, then click Upload Docx or ePub File — or Manually Add Text — to bring in the manuscript.
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Spoken ingests it instantly
Spoken parses chapter breaks automatically, whatever format the manuscript arrives in — no reformatting and no markup to add. It accepts the file and starts working immediately.
No extra step needed — once the file's in, Spoken starts chapter detection and analysis automatically.
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Classify the work, switch on Magic Mode
Once analysis completes, Spoken auto-detects language, category, subcategory, and genre. From here, switch on Magic Mode™ for Spoken Multi-Cast™ — full cast or duet narration — or choose a single narrator instead; both paths are right on this screen.
Confirm the genre fields, choose Multi-Voice or Duet Narration, then turn on Magic Mode to produce Spoken Multi-Cast™.
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Auto-generate voices and set the read
Magic Mode runs a deep analysis of every speaking character and generates a prompt-driven voice derived from exactly how you wrote them — gender, age, accent, timbre, and vocal quality, all inferred from the text. Auto-generating is optional: change any voice it creates, or skip it and cast every character by hand from the start. Narrator accent and default pacing are set right here too.
Click Yes to auto-generate a voice per character, pick the narrator's accent from the dropdown, and set a default pacing.
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A back-cover summary, written for you
Magic Mode reads the full manuscript and drafts a publish-ready summary automatically — editable any time.
Read the drafted Summary and edit it directly in the box, or click Chapter Summaries for a chapter-by-chapter version.
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Fine-tune the narrator's accent
Set the primary narrator's accent in one dropdown to match the story's setting — and the same control is available per chapter, back on Project Manager, for books that shift setting partway through.
Open the accent dropdown to reset the narrator's voice any time — the same control sits per chapter back on Project Manager.
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Discovery tags, generated automatically
Mood, tropes, and setting tags — plus comparable titles — arrive as ready-made Spoken-produced suggestions alongside the summary, saving hours of manual metadata work.
Click the x on any tag to remove it, or Add a Tag to include your own — the Comparables list below works the same way.
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Section 02
The Lexicon
Getting Pronunciation Right
Invented names, foreign phrases, and unusual places are exactly where AI narration goes wrong — Spoken discovers them before narration ever starts.
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Spoken Studio goes to work
Behind the scenes, Spoken runs character analysis, context extraction, and passage generation to support lexicon and voice assignment. You'll get an email when it's ready to review — no need to wait around.
No action needed here — Spoken emails you the moment analysis finishes and passages are ready to review.
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Let's get this right
Spoken surfaces every unusual name, place, and phrase it found — Coeurs Sauvage, Rublevka, Chalet Sauvage. Preview each one to hear exactly how the AI pronounces it, and if it's off, add a phonetic alias and save the correction. Lexicon lists can be saved and carried into future productions in the same series, so a name only ever needs fixing once.
Click the play icon beside any word to hear its pronunciation, add a phonetic fix if it's off, then click Prepare Voices and Passages.
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Section 03
Voices
Casting Your Story
A full cast, duet, or single narrator — auto-assigned, with a review panel, a voice-actor library, and personal voice cloning whenever you want more control.
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Every character, cast automatically
Spoken reads the full cast and assigns a distinct custom voice to every speaking character — even the one voice in a crowd who shouts “It’s a bird, it’s a plane!” and is never heard from again. Word counts next to each name show exactly where every voice is used.
Click Manage beside any character to open their voice options, or Merge Characters at the top to combine two into one.
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Audition and approve
Open every character, preview the assigned voice, and — like Matthew here — go in and change it easily: a full audition panel gives a written voice description, adjustable volume and speed, and one-click preview before it's locked in.
Click a character's name to open the audition panel, adjust Volume and Speed, then Preview This Voice before locking it in.
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Write the voice as a prompt
Change the prompt however you like, generate three new samples at a time, and select the one that fits best. Any custom voice built this way is saved to your account, ready to reuse — and reassign to a new character — on future projects.
Select A Custom Voice, write or edit the Prompt describing the voice, then click Generate to create three new samples.
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Or choose the voice yourself
Filter Spoken's voice-actor library by gender, age range, and accent to hand-pick a performer for any character.
Switch to the A Voice Actor Voice tab, filter the library by gender, age, and accent, then click Select This Voice.
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Or narrate it yourself: My Voice
Upload or record a sample of your own voice to clone it as a Personal Voice, then assign that clone to any character, including the narrator. It's saved to your account and ready to reuse on future titles the same way a custom voice is.
Switch to the My Voice tab and click My Personal Voice to upload or record a sample, then assign the clone to any character.
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Make Spoken
Once every character has a voice, one click sends the manuscript into full narration.
Once every character has a voice, click Make Spoken to send the manuscript into full narration.
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Section 04
Passages
Review, Refine, Personalize
Line-by-line control over the finished narration — down to replacing any single passage with your own audio.
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Track every chapter
The Passages tab shows exactly how much of the book is narrated, chapter by chapter, so you always know what's left before publishing.
Click any chapter row to jump into its passages, or drag the handle on the right to reorder chapters.
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Read along, color-coded by character
Every line is highlighted in its speaker's color, so multi-voice dialogue is easy to follow — play the finished narration back right in place.
Click a character's tab at the top to reopen their voice module and adjust the voice assigned to their passages, then click Play to hear the finished narration in place.
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Line-level control
Every passage can be fine-tuned in place: adjust volume and speed, regenerate a line that hallucinated or popped, edit the underlying text directly, or use Speak It to record a take straight into your computer's mic and have it come back synthesized in the character's voice — your exact performance intact.
Click on a passage to open the passage editor, then use Renarrate to regenerate the line or Speak It to record your own take.
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Upload your own MP3
Upload an MP3 directly to any passage in Spoken Studio — including passages Magic Mode created — and place it exactly where it belongs. Insert a passage, change its type from “Magic” to “Upload,” and add the file; an existing passage can be replaced with your own audio the same way. Music, sound effects, author commentary, a special performance — once uploaded, it becomes part of the production, right where you want it, as part of the story.
Click on a passage, then click Magic and select Upload to switch its type — add your file, and it drops right in.