FAQs
What audiobook services do you offer and how much do you charge?
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We have three audiobook services at different pricing levels. (Contract terms apply.)
If you send your audio to us, should you record your own audiobook or hire another narrator, we will edit and master your raw narration to a professional standard. We will meet all ACX submission requirements, attenuating breaths and distracting background and mouth noises.
This will cost $50 per finished hour.
If you would like a standard, single voice audiobook from one of us, Bailey OR Sasha will narrate and produce your audiobook to industry standard.
This will cost $100 per finished hour, or $50 per finished hour with ‘Royalty Share Plus’.
Either of us can also work with a duet/duel partner of your choosing, or another editor if preferred for your budget. Just get in touch with us to discuss the specifics.
Raw audio will cost $50 per hour, finished/produced audio will cost $50 per hour. If, for example, you hire Bailey and another narrator, but would like Bailey to produce the whole audiobook, it will cost $100 per finished hour for Bailey’s narration, and a separate rate of $50 per hour for the production of the rest.
If you would like a duet or dual audiobook, Bailey AND Sasha will work together to narrate and produce your audiobook.
This will cost $200 per finished hour, or $100 per finished hour with ‘Royalty Share Plus’.
Do you offer any other voiceover services?
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Both of us independently provide voice over services and shorter voice acting character roles, and we are looking to expand this to performing together. As standard, shorter projects are charged per word or per line. If your project is a line by line script or below 30 minutes, get in touch with us for detailed pricing.
What equipment do you use?
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Our sound treated recording booth is converted from a built in wardrobe/cupboard. We use the best equipment we have for the project at hand. Below is the equipment we regularly use.
Microphones: Audio Technica 2020; RØDE NT1; Shure SM7B
Audio Interface: Scarlett Solo; Scarlett 2i2 4th Gen
Headphones: RØDE NTH-100; beyerdynamic DT 770 PRO
DAW: Adobe Audition with Izotope RX11 Standard
What experience do you have?
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Bailey is an audio producer who has also worked on the audio for Notts TV, the Splendour Festival and the Nusic podcast, along with several audiobooks for Sasha before beginning narration. Bailey has a degree in Music Technology and 10+ years of experience in the audio industry.
Sasha has narrated and assisted in the production of romance, fantasy, horror and thriller fiction, along with working as a voice artist for dual narration audiobooks, indie animation, Youtube voice over and gaming. Sasha has narrated over 15 audiobooks to date.
Is there anything you won’t narrate? Do you have any hard boundaries?
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We are comfortable with swearing, open door and most darker themes found in horror and thriller (violence, gore, the supernatural ect.), however we will not broadly be comfortable narrating scenes of explicit sexual assault.
Our hard limits are real world propaganda or what we deem to be reprehensible calls to action, (to use an extreme example, if someone requested reading Mein Kampf) and fiction produced using an LLM.
There will always be a level of nuance to skirt, especially with more mature themes, but we will always ensure we read and enjoy each book we choose to go forward with narrating, as we know this is important to the author and the performance.
What is your stance on AI Voice, Large Language Models, AI art and use of AI in general?
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AI Voice
We are categorically against the use of AI voice in narration - beyond the clear ethical concerns surrounding predatory contracts selling the rights to a voice for a pittance and prayer, and in many cases blatant theft, the quality of the audiobook produced is far inferior to what a human could narrate.
If AI voiced audiobooks did not feel soulless, or effectively manage to mimic humanity enough in the future, the issue becomes skill drift - lower price, early career narrators will have a diminishing place in the market to form a portfolio. This will (hopefully) not effect established narrators overmuch, but eventually the industry will be without real new talent, ultimately leaving indie authors with a choice between AI voice and the rate of a trained stage or screen actor in a studio.
This will all but kill audiobooks - folks will effectively be going back to text to speech to listen to most books, but now paying audiobook production rates for it.
If your project links to, requests anything regarding or is linked to AI Voice on Audible or any other AI voice training whatsoever, we will not accept it. It is in our contracts with each person we work with that we do not allow our voices to be used in this way. Please do not get in touch with us for this reason.
Large Language Models (LLMs)
LLMs (Chat GPT, Claude, Gemini) are now ubiquitous, integrated into search functions, social media and the majority of word processing platforms and applications, so we cannot and do not expect zero use of LLMs from the people we work with.
Similarly to AI Voice however, there is a line at which it becomes detrimental to the industry we work in, not to mention the serious ethical concerns. Kindle is flooded with these books, and they blatantly steal from and devalue real authors.
If you used an LLM to produce the script or audiobook you would like us to narrate, please do not get in touch, as we will not work with you.
If it is clear to us you used an LLM to assist in the writing you wish us to narrate, we will not work with you. Overuse of AI writing tools such as Grammarly or Copilot can achieve the same derivative LLM patterns, and these tools are still stealing the words of other authors.
AI Art
For the same reasons we don’t agree with the use of LLM’s or AI voice, we also don’t agree with the use of AI art for book covers and promotional material. It’s derivative, takes work away from independent artists, and may lead to a significant skill drift in the future.
It is difficult to tell, particularly recently, when a piece of art is made using AI, so it is trust based whether or not covers and promo material are made using it, as these are usually produced by the person commissioning our narration.
We will never use AI to produce art, and we expect the people we work with to do the same.
AI Overall
AI has its place - for example, we use Izotope RX 11 Standard, an application which is the industry standard for audio editors, which uses AI to scan audio for repair and enhancement in many of its tools. AI has also been revolutionising medical imaging tech, spotting anomalies humans could not and would not have seen. AI is not one monolith technology and does have some benefits, and we are not moralising or claiming to be experts.
There does however appear to be something of a difference between AI tools which serve to make it easier for us to create, and AI tools which create for us. This line can get blurry and people see it differently, but our stance is that it is fundamentally important to keep learning these skills.
Storytelling and art are a canon. This means writing your own stories and using the work of industry professionals to create your book and audiobook, whether that be hiring people or using their expertise to learn those skills yourself.