Your audiobook,
distributed to Audible. distributed everywhere. made cinematic. available globally.
Studio-grade audiobooks at a fraction of the cost. Music, sound effects, and voice cloning options available.
What you get with Lex.
Reviews on Trustpilot
The audio quality is great, with human supervision behind it. David did an amazing job and produced a high quality audiobook that was just amazing. I'll be doing the rest of my backlist as well. Highly recommend it!
Lex Audio provides a much needed service for authors, bridging the gap between purely robotic narrators (usually disappointing) and live human narrators (always expensive).
Jane RyderUSFull reviewDavid and the team were responsive, transparent, and supportive at every stage. Their prompt response on production feedback was particularly valuable, and the final audiobook quality met our expectations.
Tripta DuttaINFull reviewDavid at Lex was amazing to work with. There was clear communication and expectations throughout the project, and the quality of the audio was amazing. My definite go-to source for audiobooks!
Melane BowerUSFull reviewI was impressed how my audiobook turned out. The different voices for each character helps bring the stories to life. Now they are making me a book trailer, and it's awesome. I see certain things in there that they would only know if they read my book, which means they've studied it so they can build those details in.
Brett MckayUS
The voice is AI. The performance is human.
AI performs the read; humans direct every line, cut the score, and sign off every take. Raw engines read a chapter and stop. We hold the performance.
Directed line by line in the Lex Studio
Every chapter runs through our own production desk. A producer marks affect, pace, and pauses on each line, retakes what misses, checks names and pronunciation against the manuscript, and masters to retailer spec before you hear it.
Affect, pace, and pause tagged on every line before render
Any line retaken and versioned until it lands
Names, pronunciation, seams, and loudness checked by a human
Shrines
David Celeste · Hopeful, Dreamy, Ch. 4
The Stillness of the Wind
Sayuri Hayashi Egnell · Dreamy, Floating, Ch. 4
For Lorne
Anders Schill Paulsen, Hanna Ekström, Anna Dager · Sad, Peaceful, Ch. 4
Snow Clad Plains
Christoffer Moe Ditlevsen · Dreamy, Mysterious, Ch. 5
Sound design made by hand
We license 55,000 tracks and 250,000 sound effects, and pick from them scene by scene. Score, ambience, and effects are mixed under the voice cue by cue, not one bed laid over a whole chapter.
Score per scene, cut once and then out
Ambience and effects locked to word timestamps
Mixed by hand so the voice always wins
- Your voicecloned · 30 s sample
Millions of voices. One cast.
We cast from every serious voice model and track which is best, so your book gets the strongest voice on the market, not one platform's menu. Millions of candidates, screened to the few that survive a chapter.
A distinct voice per character, matched across models
Clone your voice, or a narrator's, from a short sample
Single narrator or full cast, your call per book
- 1Pick anything to readabout 1 minOur passage, your own book, or any text. Or upload audio of you talking.
- 2Read it aloudno studioStraight into your browser mic. Pauses are trimmed for you.
- 3Hear it backright awayYour clone reads it back before you leave the page.
A private voice model, used only for your book. Deleted on request.
Narrate your book in your own voice
Read about a minute of anything into your browser: our sample passage, the opening of your own book, or any text you like. Or skip reading and upload a recording or a YouTube link of you talking. We build a clone of your voice and play it back to you before you leave the page. No account, and nothing to fill in until you like what you hear.
Read anything, upload your book, or bring audio you already have
Hear the clone read your own words in about a minute
Then directed, scored, and mastered like any cast voice
How we work, and what you keep
No royalty share, no rights grab, no surprises at the end of production.
Full ownership
The book and the finished audiobook stay entirely yours.
No royalties
One production fee. Every sale after that is yours, including on the Lex Store, where we take nothing.
Manuscript privacy
Nobody trains on it, nobody keeps it.
Human-led production
A producer and director own the result from first chapter to final master.
Professional sound design
Score, effects, and ambience selected and mixed by audio engineers.
You direct the director
Notes at every stage, not one reveal at the end.
Pricing
We make it for you, or you make it yourself in Lex Studio. Human studios charge more for a single finished hour.
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Voiceover
$49one-time
- 10 finished hours included
- Extra hours at $5+/hr
- Expressive narration
- Character voice casting
- Pronunciation review
- Production editing
- Store-safe loudness and peak limiting
- Mastered chapter files
- Author feedback round
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Scored
$99one-time
- 10 finished hours included
- Extra hours at $10+/hr
- Everything in Voiceover
- Music
- Ambience
- Sound effects
- Custom sound direction
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Publisher
Customone-time
- 10 finished hours included
- Extra hours at $20+/hr
- Everything in Scored
- Full cast of narrators
- Store-ready files: silence, credits, sample, cover, metadata
- Published to Audible plus wide retail and library channels
- Lex takes no royalties. Distribution partner keeps 20% of net except on Audible and Spotify.
- Zero exclusivity
- Dedicated producer
- Priority turnaround
What audiobook production costs elsewhere: $2,400 to $5,850 a book.
Lex Studio plans
Starter is $180 a year instead of $228. Save 20%.
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Starter
$19/ month
$15 / month, billed yearly
- 40,000 words a month
- Narration, music, sound effects
- Multi-voice cast
- On Audible, Spotify and 20+ stores
Fits most books
Pro
$49/ month
$39 / month, billed yearly
- 115,000 words a month
- Narration, music, sound effects
- Multi-voice cast
- On Audible, Spotify and 20+ stores
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Publisher
$99/ month
$79 / month, billed yearly
- 250,000 words a month
- Narration, music, sound effects
- Multi-voice cast
- On Audible, Spotify and 20+ stores
Extra credits any time, from $5. Cancel and your books come off the stores.
What authors ask before they send a chapter
Hear your book before you spend a dollar
One chapter, free. Directed, scored, mixed, back in about a day.