Short non-fiction or novella
40,000 words
$120
Complete, mastered audiobook with every export package.
Pricing
$3 per 1,000 words. That is the whole price list.
Narration is priced by the word count of your manuscript, so you see the exact price before you start and pay nothing else. Analysis, auditions, mastering and the distributor packages are included. No subscription, no minimum.
Example prices
Typical novel
90,000 words
$270
Complete, mastered audiobook with every export package.
Long novel or textbook
150,000 words
$450
Complete, mastered audiobook with every export package.
Your exact price is shown on the Narrate page once the manuscript is extracted. Re-narrating a chapter after an edit is charged for that chapter only.
How paying works
Prepay a wallet or pay each narration by card; either way the price is fixed before you start.
- Wallet. Add $25, $50, $100, $250 or any amount from $10; every dollar is a dollar of credit. The price is reserved when a narration starts and charged when it finishes.
- Card. Pay the price of the narration on Stripe Checkout, operated by ZenTalk LLC. Statements show ZENTALK.
- Stopped early? If you cancel or narration cannot finish, you pay only for the words that were read; the rest is released (card payments: returned to your wallet).
- Fair use. Included jobs are capped at 10 manuscript analyses and 30 auditions per day.
Included with every narration
One pipeline from PDF to store-ready files, with a check at every step.
- Manuscript analysis
- Chapters, front and back matter mapped from the PDF; running headers, folios and footnote markers dropped.
- Text extraction and editing
- Chapter text verified against the PDF and editable before a word is read.
- Voice auditions
- Hear any of the 30 studio voices on your own chapter before you commit.
- Verbatim check
- Every chunk is transcribed, compared with the text and retaken when it drifts.
- Mastering
- Loudness, peaks, room tone and file lengths to the common distributor spec.
- Distributor packages
- Ready-to-upload ZIPs for Spotify for Authors, Google Play Books and Kobo, plus M4B and WAV masters.
Honest about the voice. Narration is AI-generated and is delivered disclosed: the export packages carry the declaration each store asks for. Disclosed AI narration is accepted by Spotify for Authors, Google Play Books and Kobo. It is not accepted by Audible / ACX, so VoicedBook cannot be used to publish on Audible. For comparison, a human narrator typically charges $200–400 per finished hour, and a 90,000-word novel is about ten hours.