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A manuscript that sounds like an audiobook

Turn a manuscript, course or non-fiction into an audio version with one consistent narrator voice. Work with chapters like projects and control names, stress, pace and export.

318
voices
500.000
characters on the Pro plan
WAV/MP3
project export
24
languages, 10 with guaranteed quality
Samples

Narrator voices

Measured timbres that are comfortable to listen to for hours — for prose, non-fiction and children's books.

Harper
HarperFemale · Soft
Imogen
ImogenFemale · Warm
Carys
CarysFemale · Soft
Freddie
FreddieMale · Soft
Avery
AveryFemale · Business
Florence
FlorenceFemale · Energetic
Under the hood

Even from the first chapter to the last

01

One consistent intonation

The voice doesn't “tire” or change between sessions — the whole book sounds cohesive.

02

Long texts

Large projects are processed chapter by chapter and part by part, and the character limit is set by your plan.

03

Stress and names

Fix tricky names and terms in the editor — the model remembers them across the whole book.

Voices

For your book's genre

L
Literary fictionWarm narrator
N
Non-fictionConfident announcer
C
Children's booksSoft and lively
B
Business and self-developmentBusinesslike pace
F
FantasyDeep and atmospheric
P
PoetryMeasured delivery
How it works

Manuscript → audiobook

01

Upload the text

Paste in chapters, sections or the whole manuscript and work with the book as a project.

02

Choose a narrator

Pick a timbre for the genre and set the reading pace.

03

Assemble the file

Download the finished audiobook as WAV — by chapter or as a single file.

Use cases

Who it's for

Authors

Publish an audio version of your book without a studio or a narrator's fee.

Publishers

Voice your catalogue faster and cheaper than in a studio.

Education

Textbooks and study guides in audio for an accessible environment.

Languages

Audiobooks in your language and international languages

Publish translations as audio: one book — several language versions with pronunciation control.

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Pricing

Pricing without a subscription

The first 10.000 characters are free — enough for a trial chapter.

Starter
First book
9,00 €/ mo
  • 120.000 characters
  • system voices
  • WAV export
Choose
Business
High volumes
99,00 €/ mo
  • 2.000.000 characters
  • API access
  • Unlimited custom voices
Choose
Scale
Publishers
299,00 €/ mo
  • 8.000.000 characters
  • Unlimited custom voices
  • API + support
Choose
Reviews

Authors are already publishing audio

“I turned my study guides and manuals into audio without studio sessions — costs dropped several times over, and I update chapters without re-recording.”

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Stefan HoferLawyer, entrepreneur

“I put together an audio version of the professional literature I needed in one evening — I listen on the go in an even, calm voice.”

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Katharina GruberAccountant

“I voiced 12 hours of documentation and a product reference in a couple of evenings. I update chapters without re-recording.”

V
Tobias HuberTech entrepreneur
Why HancVoice

Built for long texts

The book as a project

Work not paragraph by paragraph but chapter by chapter: save text, voice, pronunciation and audio.

Publishing rights

Clean audio with no service audio watermarks for publishing, within your plan and the service rules.

Pronunciation control

Fix stress and names — the model applies them across the whole book.

FAQ

Frequently asked questions

Yes, if you hold the rights to the source text and your use of the voiceover matches your plan and the service rules.

In the editor you can set a word's pronunciation once — the model applies it throughout the book's text.

Yes. Unlike a live narrator, the timbre and pace don't “drift” between sessions — the whole book sounds cohesive.

In depth

How to voice an audiobook with AI

01

Why authors choose AI voiceover

Studio narration of a book means dozens of hours of a narrator's work, studio rental and weeks of mixing. For an independent author, such costs often make an audio version unattainable, even though demand for audiobooks grows year after year.

AI removes the barrier to entry: a manuscript becomes a finished audiobook in an evening, and the cost is measured not in fees but in characters of text. This opens the audio format even to niche titles.

02

How to choose a narrator voice

For literary fiction, a warm, unhurried timbre matters, one that holds the mood over the long run. Non-fiction and business books benefit from a clear announcer voice, and children's books from a soft, lively one.

In HancVoice the voices are grouped by genre, so you can pick a narrator in a minute and immediately hear a fragment of your chapter performed by them.

03

Names, stress and consistent intonation

The main challenge of long texts is character names, place names and terms. In the editor you set the pronunciation once, and the model applies it across the whole book without slipping from chapter to chapter.

Reading pace and pauses between scenes are adjustable too. Unlike a live narrator, the voice doesn't tire and sounds even from the first page to the last.

04

Assembly and publishing

The finished book downloads by chapter or as a project file in WAV/MP3 — a format that's convenient to send into editing, proofreading and publishing.

Commercial use is possible within your plan, your rights to the text and the service rules; the export contains no HancVoice audio watermarks.

The book in the author's voice

Create a custom voice — and narrate the book as yourself, without spending days in a studio. How to create a voice →

A narrator voice

No voice of your own — choose a system voice from the working library. Open voices →

Voice your book now

The first 10.000 characters are free. No card, no subscription.