BREAKTHROUGH IN AI AUDIOBOOK TECH PUTS EMOTION AND MULTI-VOICE NARRATION IN AUTHORS' HANDS

Spoken, the AI audiobook company™, capitalizes on audiobook market explosion with personalized digital narration

PORTLAND, Ore., Aug. 26, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Today Portland-based Spoken announces the public launch of its AI-powered, multi-voice audiobook creation platform. The release comes at a pivotal moment for independent authors, as Spotify's embrace of digital narration opens new publishing opportunities. Spoken's emergence in the market offers an affordable path to creating immersive, multi-voice audiobooks with technology that has been trained to deliver natural, fluid narration without the artificial tone of traditional text-to-speech. (Listen to a multi-voice project.)

In beta for the past year, Spoken's patent-pending platform has been shaped by thousands of writers and listeners to become the AI audiobook company™ for authors. Through partnerships with Hume AI and ElevenLabs, authors can assign unique, perfectly lifelike voices to every character –– choosing from custom AI-generated voices or human voice clones made by professional narrators. Spoken's story and character analysis, along with its editing and publishing tools, empower authors to create and download high-quality audio projects that deliver consistent, emotionally resonant performances across entire books. For listeners, this means a richer, more dynamic storytelling experience.

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"The voice models have evolved tremendously, but until now they haven't been able to carry through the interaction dynamics of multiple characters required by audiobooks. What sets Spoken apart is its ability to deliver emotional nuance and a natural narrative cadence across a multitude of voices," said Josh Meyer, a thought leader in the area of generative audio, and founder of Coqui, a text-to-speech pioneer. "It's the first system I've seen that truly understands storytelling structure. Spoken isn't just pushing the boundaries of text-to-speech. It's redefining what narrative AI can achieve."

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"Twelve months ago, digital narration of audiobooks was uncharted territory," said Spoken Founder and CEO Phil Marshall. "Now, we're giving authors unprecedented creative control. When I ran my own sci-fi novel through the system, hearing that cast of voices come alive was nothing short of miraculous."

Spoken offers pay-per-project and subscription plans, enabling authors to upload manuscripts, cast unlimited voices, and produce high-quality audiobooks at a fraction of the cost and time of traditional production. Its integration with publishing partners will expand access to more authors worldwide.

With audiobook sales projected to grow 26 percent year-over-year (Grandview Research) and multi-voice narration gaining popularity through tools like Notebook LM, Spoken is positioned to meet surging demand for conversational, character-driven storytelling.

To learn more or create an audiobook on Spoken, visit spoken.press and follow @spoken.press on social media.

ABOUT SPOKEN

Spoken, the AI audiobook company™, enables independent authors to create immersive, multi-voice audiobooks at a fraction of the cost and time of traditional production. Purpose-built for storytelling, Spoken combines proprietary agentic AI with emotionally nuanced voice synthesis to deliver high-quality, character-driven performances. Authors can choose from custom AI-generated voices crafted exclusively for their characters or AI-cloned voices from professional narrators. Spoken's mission is to help storytellers tell stories in ways never before possible.

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SOURCE Spoken Inc.