*client must supply music tracks or select from Voquent approved libraries. SFX must be identified by the author and a list of placements provided.
PFH = Per Finished Hour (The average speech rate is 140 words per minute)
Our audiobook production services have flexible pricing to match your budget, all recorded to ACX standards.
Talk to SalesThe Standard Audiobook Package includes all the essentials, and a professional narrator of your choice will keep listeners engaged from cover to cover.
Standard Services Include:
from
$350 - $470
Recommended Budget (PFH)
Recommended
The Premium Audiobook Package adds the additional element of music, and with more auditions and revisions, you can ensure the perfect narrator and performance.
Premium Services Include:
from
$450 - $570
Recommended Budget (PFH)
The Deluxe Audiobook Package offers your listeners top-tier quality with full mixing and mastering, SFX, and music to create a truly immersive audio experience.
Deluxe Services Include:
from
$900 - $1,000
Recommended Budget (PFH)
*client must supply music tracks or select from Voquent approved libraries. SFX must be identified by the author and a list of placements provided.
PFH = Per Finished Hour (The average speech rate is 140 words per minute)
Our Audiobook production prices are flexible to suit your needs. If you don’t see the perfect package for your requirements, get in touch for a no-obligation quote. Music tracks for audiobook recordings must be selected from a Voquent-approved library, and the author must identify all SFX placements within the text.
Why cast from a handful of options when you have our entire database of professional narrators to choose from?
With unlimited demo casting, you'll receive your entire shortlist of voice samples for review. Then, depending on your production package, you can audition 3 – 12 narrators for the role. Our engineers also test and verify all home studios to guarantee professional audio quality.
Create an audio experience like no other with full editing and mastering. The Deluxe Fiction package offers all our audiobook production services to provide the most creative solutions and truly engage your listeners.
Is your book filled with character dialogue? Hire up to 4 narrators to give each character a unique voice. Does your book jump between earth and space? Make settings and events even clearer with sound effects and chapter intro/ outro music. Plus, audition up to 12 narrators to find the best voices for your book!
Gift your listeners the highest standard of audiobook production, and they’ll be sure to beg for a sequel. The Deluxe package offers comprehensive audio mixing and mastering, giving your listeners an experience closer to an audio drama than the average audiobook. This includes 6+ hours of engineering time per finished hour to seamlessly integrate multiple narrators, music tracks, and special effects.
Services: MP3/WAV audio, 1-4 narrators, 6+ hours of expert audio mixing and mastering PFH, 2 rounds of revisions, intro/ outro music for each chapter, SFX, 12 narrator auditions.
Take your audiobook production to the next level. Achieve greater engagement from your audience with multiple narrators and the added element of music to create a high-quality audio experience.
With two rounds of revisions, you can ensure that the audiobook sounds precisely as planned and the intro/outro music will pull your new audience into the story.
The Premium package includes all audio processing features of the Standard package, plus an additional hour of engineering time per finished hour to integrate your music intros/outros, adding a dynamic additional element to your audiobook.
Services: MP3/WAV audio, 1-2 narrators, 2 hours of basic audio processing PFH, 2 rounds of revisions, intro/ outro music, 5 narrator auditions.
Human narration is far superior to AI. Guiding your listeners through your story requires a talented narrator capable of understanding how your characters and audience really feel.
Bring your story to life with the essential audiobook recording services, including a professional narrator of your choice, one round of revisions, and basic audio processing.
The Standard package includes all essential audio editing, including 1 hour of engineering time per finished hour to balance the volume levels for a consistent listening experience.
Services: MP3/WAV audio, 1 narrator, 1 hour of basic audio processing PFH, 1 round of revisions, 3 narrator auditions.
Did you know that only 18% of the world speaks English?
Recording your audiobook in multiple languages will allow the entire globe to enjoy your story. With culturally accurate translation and professional narration, you can discover new listeners, grow your global fanbase, and boost sales without working on the sequel.
The Standard Audiobook Package includes all the essentials, and a professional narrator of your choice will keep listeners engaged from cover to cover.
Standard Services Include:
from
$300 - $420
Recommended Budget (PFH)
Recommended
The Premium Audiobook Package adds the additional element of music, and with more auditions and revisions, you can ensure the perfect narrator and performance.
Premium Services Include:
from
$400 - $520
Recommended Budget (PFH)
The Deluxe Audiobook Package offers your listeners top-tier quality with full mixing and mastering, SFX, and music to create a truly immersive audio experience.
Deluxe Services Include:
from
$800 - $900
Recommended Budget (PFH)
*client must supply music tracks or select from Voquent approved libraries. SFX must be identified by the author and a list of placements provided.
PFH = Per Finished Hour (The average speech rate is 140 words per minute)
Our Audiobook production prices are flexible to suit your needs. If you don’t see the perfect package for your requirements, get in touch for a no-obligation quote. Music tracks for audiobook recordings must be selected from a Voquent-approved library, and the author must identify all SFX placements within the text.
Why cast from a handful of options when you have our entire database of professional narrators to choose from?
With unlimited demo casting, you'll receive your entire shortlist of voice samples for review. Then, depending on your production package, you can audition 3 – 12 narrators for the role. Our engineers also test and verify all home studios to guarantee professional audio quality.
Create an audio experience like no other with full editing and mastering. The Deluxe Non-fiction package offers all our audiobook production services to provide the most creative solutions and truly engage your listeners.
Ensure your audiobook is everything you dreamed of with two rounds of revisions, and make settings and events even clearer with sound effects and chapter intro/ outro music.
Gift your listeners the highest standard of audiobook production to keep them listening. The Deluxe package offers comprehensive audio mixing and mastering, giving your listeners an experience closer to an audio drama than the standard audiobook. This includes 6+ hours of engineering time per finished hour to balance levels and seamlessly integrate multiple music tracks and special effects.
Services: MP3/WAV audio, 1 narrator, 6+ hours of expert audio mixing and mastering PFH, 2 rounds of revisions, intro/ outro music for each chapter, SFX, 12 narrator auditions.
Take your audiobook production to the next level. With the added element of music, you can create a high-quality audio experience, ensuring greater engagement from your audience.
With two rounds of revisions, you can ensure that the audiobook sounds precisely as planned and the intro/outro music will pull your new audience into the story.
The Premium package includes all audio processing features of the Standard package, plus an additional hour of engineering time per finished hour to integrate your music intros/outros, adding a dynamic additional element to your audiobook.
Services: MP3/WAV audio, 1 narrator, 2 hours of basic audio processing PFH, 2 rounds of revisions, intro/ outro music, 5 narrator auditions.
Human narration is far superior to AI. Guiding your listeners through your audiobook requires a talented narrator who can genuinely understand the information in your book and how that will make an audience feel.
Bring your story to life with the essential audiobook recording services, including a professional narrator of your choice, one round of revisions, and basic audio processing.
The Standard package includes all essential audio processing, including 1 hour of engineering time per finished hour to balance the volume levels for a consistent listening experience.
Services: MP3/WAV audio, 1 narrator, 1 hour of basic audio processing PFH, 1 round of revisions, 3 narrator auditions.
Did you know that only 18% of the world speaks English?
Recording your audiobook in multiple languages will allow the entire globe to enjoy your story. With culturally accurate translation and professional narration, you can discover new listeners, grow your global fanbase, and boost sales without working on the sequel.
The entire Voquent database of professional narrators is at your disposal.
Use our search bar to browse thousands of voice actors. Our pre-approved voice demos allow you to listen to talent immediately, and you can click the heart icon to shortlist your favourites.
Discover the best narrator for your story’s requirements, niche, and style. Depending on your audiobook production package, you can audition between 3 and 12 narrators with an excerpt from your book.
However, all the voices on our site are freelancers, so they are welcome to turn down the job at their own discretion.
Generally, most audiobooks will have one narrator unless the story is told from multiple characters' perspectives. In addition to a central narrator, you may want to cast additional voices to portray characters with frequent dialogue to diversify the voices in your audiobook and differentiate the characters.
Our audiobook production packages allow you to hire the number of narrators your project requires, whether the traditional single narrator or up to 4 different voices, for a dynamic audio experience that your listeners will love.
When selecting music and SFX for your audiobook production, please use the Epidemic Sounds and Storyblocks libraries. Our expert audio engineers will then flawlessly mix this audio into your audiobook to create a dynamic experience for your listeners.
Our production packages each offer a different level of audiobook post-production to match your requirements and budget.
The Standard Package includes basic audio processing and 1 hour of dedicated engineer time per finished hour of audiobook.
The Premium Package also includes basic audio processing as well as intro/outro music to create a more dynamic audio experience. This includes an additional hour of engineering time per finished hour.
The Deluxe Package takes post-production to the next level. With up to 4 narrators for fiction content, full mixing and mastering, background music for every chapter, and SFX, our talented audio engineers will spend 6+ hours of editing time per finished hour of the audiobook.
*Let us know if your project requires more or less audiobook post-production than you see in our packages! We would be happy to create a unique no-obligation quote for the post-production you need.
There does not seem to be any freely available research on the specific percentage of audiobooks recorded for or bought by children. However, this study suggests that children's audiobooks were the 8th most popular genre in 2024.
Children’s audiobooks also seem to be getting more popular, with the more frequent use of smart devices in the home and innovative products like the Toniebox.
Audiobooks are read-out-loud versions of traditional paper-copy books. They are usually read by a professional narrator who guides the audience through the story and performs character voices when reading dialogue.
An audio version of your book provides an option for those who prefer listening over reading and is accessible to those who can’t read or have visual impairments.
Audiobook listeners most frequently use apps such as Audible, Spotify, iTunes, or Google Play to purchase or gain free access to the audio file, and this gives authors another avenue for selling their work and growing their audience.
An unabridged audiobook is the recorded version of the original book with no changes to the text.
An abridged audiobook is a shortened version that reduces the time it takes to listen to it. This is most often done for children to make a story easier to comprehend, students who need pure information over a story, and literary works that may contain a lot of “fluff.”
Of course, it also reduces the production price, with fewer hours of finished content to record and edit. However, listeners often avoid abridged audiobooks, knowing they are receiving a lesser product than the original.
The audiobook production time will be determined by several factors, with the word count of your book being the most prolific. The narrator's availability can also dramatically affect the production time, but our team can confirm this with talent before a voice is officially selected.
If your audiobook project only requires basic audio processing and one narrator (The Standard Package), then only one hour of editing time is necessary per finished hour of the book. However, suppose your project has more immersive audio requirements, such as multiple character voices, music, and SFX (The Deluxe Package). In that case, our engineers spend 6+ hours of editing time per finished hour of audio.
Check out our case studies to see the production time of more specific examples.
The price of an audiobook will be determined by the length of the book and the amount of post-production required in your project.
The average narration speed is 140 words per minute. So, if your book is 70,000 words, and you select the Standard Package for your non-fiction book, then this should work out to £1,800 – £2,800.
After chatting with your preferred narrators, discussing your project requirements, and seeing the source material, we can give a much more accurate quote.
Get a no-obligation quote here.
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