Your audiobook
Your voice on Audible
Your book, in your voice, on Audible, Amazon and Apple Books. Recorded on camera so every session is also content.
1. Who narrates
You (recommended)
For your own story or your business book, nobody sounds more believable than you. Listeners connect with the author's voice.
A hired narrator
Through ACX you can pay per finished hour or split royalties with a narrator.
Amazon's Virtual Voice
Amazon's AI narration for eligible Kindle books. Fast and free, but it's not you, and listeners can tell.
2. Record on Let's Sit Down
- We open a private studio room for you in Let's Sit Down. You get your manuscript split into sections, each with a teleprompter script.
- Read on camera, about 7 minutes per take. Say the slate first ("Chapter One, take one"), pause a breath, then read. Mess up? Pause, and reread the whole sentence. We cut the mistakes out.
- The video becomes clips, reels and your launch content.
- The audio for Audible needs a clean track: your mic recorded on your own device, with no noise cleanup or echo cancellation. Video calls clean up your sound to save bandwidth, and Audible rejects that kind of processing. We're building this clean track into Let's Sit Down. Until it's ready, we record your Audible track alongside the video with a USB mic and a free recorder, so you don't need a Riverside account.
Your room matters more than your mic. A closet full of clothes beats a fancy mic in a kitchen. Same room, same mic, same distance (about a fist away) every session. Headphones on, phone on silent, fridge and AC off if you can.
3. What Audible requires (we handle this)
- One file per chapter or section, plus opening credits, closing credits and a retail sample of 1 to 5 minutes.
- MP3 at 192 kbps or higher, constant bit rate, 44.1 kHz, and every file the same (all mono or all stereo).
- Loudness between -23 and -18 dB RMS, peaks no higher than -3 dB, background noise no louder than -60 dB.
- Half a second to one second of room tone at the start of each file and 1 to 5 seconds at the end. No file over 120 minutes.
- Square cover art, at least 2,400 by 2,400 pixels, matching your book cover.
4. Upload to ACX
- Your book must be live on Amazon first.
- Sign in at ACX with the same Amazon account that holds your book's rights, find your title and choose "I have this book in audio and want to sell it."
- Choose distribution. Exclusive to Audible pays a higher royalty than non-exclusive (non-exclusive lets you sell elsewhere too). Check ACX's current rates on that screen.
- Upload the mastered files we deliver, the cover and the sample, then submit. Audible's quality check can take a few weeks.
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