Audiobook

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The most significant responsibility of your audiobook is the work we do on every aspect of your audio production. This means we are responsible for editing, mixing and mastering your audiobook. It is where all the audio is organised, edited, and cleaned up to make a final product. This helps make sure that all audio is clear and audible to create an easy-to-follow experience for the listener. We have software tools and knowledge to remove problematic audio issues such as:

  • Narration pacing
  • Mouth clicks
  • Excessive breaths
  • Background noise
  • Page turn sounds
  • Rustling noises

If you are distributing your audiobook on Audible/ACX or other platforms, you’ll need to format the audio files to the required specs. Not doing so will ultimately have your audiobook rejected and sent back to be fixed. These specs include having a uniform sound, containing opening and closing credits, having all mono or stereo files, and a retail audio sample. In addition, each file should contain only one chapter. Each chapter should have a few seconds of room tone at the beginning and end. The narrator must state the name of the chapter or section at the beginning. If a chapter is more than 120 minutes, it will have to be broken up into 2 audio files and labeled accordingly.

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We recreate your audiobook experience with a team of industry experts devoted to turning your good idea into an audio experience that connects and captivates.

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The streamlined process for designing, editing, mixing, and mastering is dedicated to attracting the right, refined audience that hangs on your every word.

When you can't read, listen! Audiobooks can also be a great way to relax -to give your eyes a rest from the constant onslaught of digital screens. Yet others can use them to save time. For instance, you can keep up with books and multitask; listen to an audiobook while doing something else like cooking, gardening, commuting by train or taking a long walk. Audiobooks tend to be regular audio files that you can play on any multimedia player, tablet or smartphone. Just make sure you have a good pair of headphones that are comfortable to wear for extended periods and you're good to go!

Here are some ways audiobooks can boost your emotional and physical health.

Audiobooks build crucial listening skills for children.

According to the Audio Publishers Association, audiobooks help “build and enhance vital literacy skills such as fluency, vocabulary, language acquisition, pronunciation, phonemic awareness, and comprehension—skills that often boost reading scores.”

Audiobooks help reduce negative thinking.

Audiobooks have the power to boost our moods and disrupt negative thinking patterns. Psychology Today notes that for “those of us prone to anxiety and depression . . . listening to someone else read aloud can help by replacing negative thoughts with something else.”

Audiobooks have the same benefits of reading.

Don’t let anyone tell you that listening to audiobooks is cheating. Discover noted that “in a study published in the Journal of Neuroscience, researchers from the Gallant Lab at UC Berkeley scanned the brains of nine participants while they read and listened. . . Looking at the brain scans and data analysis, the researchers saw that the stories stimulated the same cognitive and emotional areas, regardless of their medium.”

Audiobooks help relax our eyes…

Most people spend over seven hours a day looking at digital screens, which can lead to blurred vision, eye strain, and long-term vision problems like near-sightedness. On top of that, studies have suggested that there’s a link between social media use and feelings of loneliness and depression—another reason to put an audiobook on and the phone down.

Audiobooks help us have a good night sleep.

The blue light from screens is a disruption to our circadian rhythm, which makes nodding off at night difficult. Listening to an audiobook allows your eyes and mind to relax while ushering in a good night of sleep.

Audiobooks improve time management.

Being able to work our brain and read books while doing tasks like driving, cleaning, or exercising is a win-win—and allows fewer satisfying chores to become more enjoyable, reducing stress.

Audiobooks help build literacy skills.

The National Literacy Trust notes that “audiobooks can help develop reading skills, such as decoding and comprehension.”

Audiobooks immerse you in another world.

Psychology Today cites audio as “one of the most intimate forms of media—listeners work together with the narrator and author to create mental pictures of situations and characters. Audiobooks can captivate the imagination, allowing listeners to create a whole world at once within and outside themselves.” Being able to escape our daily worries is a powerful tool that we can easily tap into through the wonder of audiobooks.

Proofing

Audiobook proofing is the process of listening to an edited audiobook critically and in detail. Preferably, the edited audio will be listened to through headphones to hear how the consumer would. Reviewing is done per chapter and then comments are added or it is approved for mastering.
Generally, for each finished hour of the audiobook, you will need to spend 1.5 hours proofing. Following along with the audiobook script while proofing the audiobook can be helpful to find mistakes that you wouldn’t have.
What are you looking for during the proofing process?
When you proof audio for an audiobook, you’re listening for:
  • Repeated phrases
  • Consistent Narration
  • Erroneous sounds
  • Missed pronunciation
  • Gaps in sections
  • Editing mistakes
  • Page-turn sounds

Mastering

After all the audio editing and proofing are finalized, it is time to send it to mastering. This is when all the audio files are put together and the audio is mastered to the required specs of the publishing service. During the mastering process, the following is addressed:
  • Same tone
  • Consistent level per file
  • Sample rate conversion
  • Fix problematic frequencies
  • Add required metadata and ISRC codes

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