With All to Audiobook, a book costs $0 for up to three hours of audio, or $19 once for a whole book with Pro. Your file is never uploaded.
Make your audiobook nowHow it works
- Open your book or document and pick a chapter to start from.
- Choose a voice.
- Press Convert, then download the audio.
Cost to turn a book into an audiobook
Free makes up to three hours of audio, once per account. Pro is $19 once at launch, then $29. It has no hour or character limit and no subscription.
How much a narrator costs
ACX, Audible's audiobook marketplace, puts a full retail production at about $400 for each finished hour of audio: about $200 for the narrator and $200 for editing and mastering. A typical novel is about 10 hours of audio, so that is about $4,000.
Questions
Is there a subscription?
No. Pro is one payment: $19 at launch, then $29.
Do I pay for each book?
No. Pro has no hour or character limit, so one payment covers every book you make.
Can I try it first?
Yes. Press Start listening on the home page to hear the introduction, and Free makes up to three hours of audio, once per account. To try Studio, download it and log in: every account can make 30 minutes of audio free. Get Studio to export your audiobooks.
How long does a whole book take?
You can start listening within a minute or two, while the website makes the rest. You can download each chapter as soon as it is made. A typical novel is about 10 hours of audio. How long the whole book takes depends on your computer.
How long is an audiobook?
ACX estimates that about 9,300 words make one hour of audio. A 90,000-word novel is nearly 10 hours.
How much does it cost to make an audiobook on Amazon?
ACX has two ways to pay a narrator: a fee for each finished hour of audio, or no payment up front and a share of the royalties. The royalty share needs exclusive distribution through ACX.
Recording an audiobook yourself
There is no narrator fee, but it takes time. ACX says one finished hour of audio takes about four hours of work, so a 10-hour book is about 40 hours of reading and editing.
An audiobook in your own voice
Studio, our desktop app for Mac and Windows, makes a voice from a short recording of you. Studio is $49 at launch, then $69, one payment, and it includes Pro.
What you get
Free makes an MP3 file for each chapter. Pro also makes one M4B audiobook with chapters and a cover, or all chapters as MP3 files in one ZIP.