EPUB, DOCX, PDF
Headers, footers and notes stripped. Numbers, dates and abbreviations read the way a human would.
Type "audiobook converter" and most results just read a PDF in one flat voice. Audiobookery starts from the same manuscript but runs a full production on top: chapters detected, a voice you approve, mood music, mastering to retail spec, and a cover and listing ready for the store. One file in, a finished audiobook out - not a robotic read-through you would never publish, let alone sell.
A basic converter treats your book as raw text: it reads every header, footnote and page number in the same flat tone, stumbles over dates and abbreviations, and stops there - no chapters, no mastering, nothing you could sell. Audiobookery treats the same manuscript as a book to be produced: front matter cleaned, chapters detected, numbers and abbreviations rewritten to be spoken, and a voice you choose and approve before anything is finalized. The gap shows up the moment a listener presses play: a converted file sounds like a machine reading, a produced audiobook sounds like a book.
Headers, footers and notes stripped. Numbers, dates and abbreviations read the way a human would.
Choose a narrator, get a sample from your own pages, and approve it before the full book is produced.
A real cast detected from your text, not one flat machine voice across the whole book.
Music matched to your genre, levels mastered chapter by chapter to retail spec.
Retail-ready files with a deposit guide for Apple, Google Play, Kobo, Spotify and more.
You own the master files and set your own price - no exclusivity, no revenue share.
Want to hear the difference? Listen to Studio and Premium samples, then check pricing.
| What matters | Free TTS converter | Audiobookery |
|---|---|---|
| Chapter detection | No, one long file | Yes, named chapters |
| Voice you approve first | No | Yes, on your own pages |
| Multi-voice casting | No | Included from Creator |
| Mood music and mastering | No | Yes, retail spec |
| Cover and store listing | No | Three options each |
| Ready to sell | No | Yes, retail-ready export |
A subscription gives you 500 pages of finished audiobook every month, for as many books as you like, on a 12-month commitment with two months free when billed yearly. Publishing once? Pay $129 for a single audiobook, no commitment. A page is 275 words, and we never count your books, no matter how many titles you convert.
Most people searching "audiobook converter" find the same short list first: the read-aloud button built into a phone or ebook app, a free desktop text-to-speech program, or a browser extension that reads a page out loud. All of them are free, and all of them do the same narrow job - turn text into sound, nothing else.
Their limits show up fast on a full manuscript. One flat voice runs the whole book, with no chapter markers, so a listener gets one long stream instead of named tracks. Character names, numbers and abbreviations get mispronounced the way a first draft always does before someone fixes the text. Levels jump between paragraphs because nothing is mastered, and the output rarely meets a retailer's loudness and peak spec, so a store rejects the file even before anyone judges the narration. These tools are genuinely useful for previewing your own draft or checking a chapter for typos by ear - they are not a way to produce a book you could sell.
A footnote or a page number read aloud in the same flat tone as the story is the giveaway that a converter never looked at the manuscript as a book. It treated every line the same, front matter and dialogue alike, because that is all a converter is built to do.
That gap is the real line between a converter and a production. A converter takes text and hands back audio. A production takes a manuscript and hands back a book: chapters, a cast, mastering to retail spec, a cover and a listing - the difference covered above.
A free converter reads text in one flat voice with no editing. Audiobookery detects chapters, rewrites numbers and abbreviations to be spoken, casts a voice you approve, adds mood music, and masters the result to retail spec.
EPUB, DOCX and PDF. Headers, footers and notes are stripped automatically so only your story is narrated.
Yes. You hear a sample recorded from your own pages and approve it before the full manuscript is produced.
From $129 per book, or a subscription from $29 a month for 500 pages of finished audiobook every month, whichever fits how often you publish.
Always. You own the master files and set your own retail price - unlike Apple's free AI narration, which takes the rights.
No. Studio and Premium voices carry prosody, pauses and emotion across the chapter, and you hear a sample from your own pages before the full book is produced, so a flat read-through never reaches the final file.
Or explore the full production service and see how recording it yourself compares.