Audiobook Narration

Direct long-form narration that stays consistent over hours: pace, character voices, pronunciation list, and chapter-level consistency notes.

Direct the narration for this text.

Text to narrate:
"""
[PASTE THE CHAPTER OR SECTION]
"""

Genre: [LITERARY FICTION / THRILLER / MEMOIR / BUSINESS NONFICTION / CHILDREN'S]
Narrator: [FIRST PERSON AS THE PROTAGONIST / THIRD PERSON OMNISCIENT / THE AUTHOR READING THEIR OWN WORK]
Listener and where they listen: [e.g. "commuters, in traffic, half-distracted" / "children at bedtime"]
Total length: [HOURS, so consistency planning matters]

Produce:

1. **The voice brief**: age impression, timbre, accent, and baseline energy, in the terms a voice model or a human narrator can act on. Then the three qualities that define this narrator, and the one thing they must never sound like.

2. **Pace and delivery**: words per minute for narration versus dialogue, where to slow down (the turn, the reveal, the emotional line), and where to move (exposition, transitions). Nonfiction runs faster than fiction, and both run slower than conversation.

3. **The marked-up text**: return my text with delivery direction inline, using bracketed cues for pause length, emphasis, pace changes, and emotional shifts. Mark pauses at paragraph breaks and scene breaks explicitly; the difference between a beat and a breath is what makes long-form listening comfortable.

4. **Character voices**, if there is dialogue: for each speaking character, the one or two vocal shifts that distinguish them (pitch, pace, rhythm, a verbal habit). Keep the shifts small. A narrator performing five broad impressions is exhausting over eight hours, while a narrator who changes pace and pitch slightly is followable.

5. **The pronunciation list**: every proper noun, invented word, foreign term, and technical term in the text, with a phonetic spelling. Build this before recording. A name pronounced two ways across a book is the single most reported audiobook complaint.

6. **The consistency sheet**: the settings and choices to carry into every subsequent chapter, so a session recorded three weeks later matches this one.

7. **Section breaks**: where to split for generation or recording, chosen at natural narrative boundaries rather than at a fixed length.

Rules: do not change my text. Direction goes in brackets, and the words stay exactly as written.

How to use

The pronunciation list and the consistency sheet are what make this a long-form process rather than a good-sounding first chapter. Both generated and human narration drift across sessions, and a listener who has spent six hours with one pronunciation of a character's name notices the seventh-hour change immediately. Keep character voice shifts subtle: the instinct is to perform, and the thing that actually holds attention over hours is a narrator who is easy to listen to.

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