About the service
Before we agree on anything, I record a sample. You send a page or two of your own text, and within a day you hear exactly how the book will sound: the pace, the breathing, the way I handle names. The sample is free and commits you to nothing — if the character of the reading does not suit the material, we part ways before the order rather than halfway through the manuscript.
I record in a home studio with a treated room, so the track carries no roominess, no street noise and no ringing on sibilants. After the take I clean breaths and mouth clicks where they distract, level the loudness so the listener never reaches for the volume control, and mix every chapter to the same target — chapter twenty sounds like chapter one. Names, terms, place names and anything the author invented go into a pronunciation dictionary agreed with you before recording, so the same word is never read two different ways.
Delivery is chapter by chapter, with metadata filled in and in the file formats your platform asks for. Deadlines are counted in manuscript pages and in hours of finished audio, not in vague promises. Remarks after listening are ordinary work: I re-record the marked places and return the corrected chapter.
— sample fragment recorded before the order, free of charge;
— home studio with a treated room, even loudness across the whole book;
— cleanup of breaths, clicks and stumbles, single tempo and character of reading;
— chapter split with metadata, file formats prepared for your platform;
— pronunciation dictionary for names and terms, agreed in advance;
— corrections by your remarks, deadlines in pages and in hours of finished audio.
I narrate only texts you hold the rights to. I do not pass a synthesized voice off as live narration — if synthesis is what the project needs, I say so plainly and in advance. I do not imitate another person's voice.
I record in a home studio with a treated room, so the track carries no roominess, no street noise and no ringing on sibilants. After the take I clean breaths and mouth clicks where they distract, level the loudness so the listener never reaches for the volume control, and mix every chapter to the same target — chapter twenty sounds like chapter one. Names, terms, place names and anything the author invented go into a pronunciation dictionary agreed with you before recording, so the same word is never read two different ways.
Delivery is chapter by chapter, with metadata filled in and in the file formats your platform asks for. Deadlines are counted in manuscript pages and in hours of finished audio, not in vague promises. Remarks after listening are ordinary work: I re-record the marked places and return the corrected chapter.
— sample fragment recorded before the order, free of charge;
— home studio with a treated room, even loudness across the whole book;
— cleanup of breaths, clicks and stumbles, single tempo and character of reading;
— chapter split with metadata, file formats prepared for your platform;
— pronunciation dictionary for names and terms, agreed in advance;
— corrections by your remarks, deadlines in pages and in hours of finished audio.
I narrate only texts you hold the rights to. I do not pass a synthesized voice off as live narration — if synthesis is what the project needs, I say so plainly and in advance. I do not imitate another person's voice.
