Audio Apps for Authors | AI Apps for Authors

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Adobe Firefly

Develop character and world artwork with visual references, refine selected areas, and collect cover or trailer directions on Firefly Boards.

Price: Free + US$9.99/mo
AI access: AI included
Platforms: Web, iOS, Android

AIVA

Compose and edit instrumental music for scenes, characters, and book videos, with MIDI exports and plan-specific monetization rights.

Price: Free + €11/mo (annual billing)
AI access: AI included
Platforms: Web

Apple Books digital narration

Submit an eligible English-language Apple Books ebook through a preferred partner for a digitally narrated audio edition.

Price: Free
AI access: AI included
Platforms: Web

Auphonic

Prepare recorded audiobook chapters, readings, or interviews for release by balancing speech levels, reducing noise, and setting loudness.

Price: Free + $11/mo (annual billing)
AI access: AI included
Platforms: Web

AuthorVoices.ai

Turn an EPUB or DOCX into audiobook chapters, then correct individual passages and check the finished audio’s delivery specifications.

Price: Free + $49 one-time
AI access: AI included
Platforms: Web

Descript

Shape recorded interviews or spoken drafts by editing their transcripts, then clean the sound, generate missing speech and cut promotional clips.

Price: Free + $16/mo (annual billing)
AI access: AI included
Platforms: Web, macOS, Windows

ElevenLabs

Generate speech, audiobook narration, and music in one workspace, with voice and pronunciation controls plus prompts and section editing for songs or instrumentals.

Price: Free + $6/mo
AI access: AI included
Platforms: Web, iOS, Android

Google Play Books auto-narration

Create an audio edition of an eligible Google Play ebook, edit its digital narration, and publish through the Partner Center.

Price: Free
AI access: AI included
Platforms: Web

KDP Virtual Voice

Create computer-narrated audiobooks from eligible Kindle eBooks, with voice selection and narration review inside KDP.

Price: Free
AI access: AI included
Platforms: Web

Lex Audio

Turn a finished manuscript into an audiobook with AI voices, pronunciation review, and optional music, using a production service or the Lex Studio editor.

Price: From $19/mo
AI access: AI included
Platforms: Web

Loudly

Shape music to a trailer's duration and mood, then refine tracks, stems and mastering in one workspace, with important publisher and advertising limits.

Price: Free + $10/mo
AI access: AI included
Platforms: Web

Mubert Render

Generate background tracks from text, images, moods, or genres for book trailers and videos, with commercial digital ads requiring an eligible paid plan.

Price: Free + $14/mo
AI access: AI included
Platforms: Web

Murf Studio

Give a narrated excerpt or book trailer a repeatable voice, with controls for names, pacing, emphasis and the way a sentence is performed.

Price: From $228/yr
AI access: AI included
Platforms: Web

Narration Box

Import a manuscript, assign narrators or character voices, and revise audiobook passages within a chapter-based editor.

Price: Free + $15/mo
AI access: AI included
Platforms: Web

NaturalReader

Listen through a draft or research document with highlighted text, or use the separately licensed Commercial Studio to create audio for readers.

Price: Free + $29/mo
AI access: AI included
Platforms: Web, iOS (Personal), Android (Personal), Chrome extension (Personal)

Otter

Capture an interview or spoken notes as a searchable transcript, with live transcription, recording imports and AI tools for finding material across conversations.

Price: Free + $16.99/mo
AI access: AI included
Platforms: Web, macOS, Windows, iOS, Android

Sonix

Make interviews, oral histories and recorded notes searchable, editable and exportable, with transcript translation and timed subtitles in the same workspace.

Price: From $10/audio hour
AI access: AI included
Platforms: Web

SOUNDRAW

Generate and arrange instrumental background music for book videos and ads, with separate Artist plans for substantially modified standalone songs.

Price: Free + $12.99/mo
AI access: AI included
Platforms: Web

Speechify Studio

Create narrated excerpts and promotional voiceovers with a reusable pronunciation library, adjustable emotional delivery and multilingual dubbing.

Price: Free + $100/yr
AI access: AI included
Platforms: Web

Spoken

Turn manuscripts into AI-narrated audiobooks with single, dual, or full-cast voices and passage-level narration controls.

Price: Free + $20/5,000 finished words
AI access: AI included
Platforms: Web

Suno

Create vocal songs or instrumentals from prompts and lyrics for character themes, personal soundtracks, or book ads, with plan-specific download rights.

Price: Free + $8/mo (annual billing)
AI access: AI included
Platforms: Web

Superwhisper

Speak draft passages into your existing editor, with separate choices for transcription and AI cleanup, reusable modes, and local processing options.

Price: Free + $8.49/mo
AI access: Included or BYO Key
Platforms: macOS, Windows, iOS, Android

Udio

Experiment with songs from text prompts and refine them within Udio for personal, non-commercial use. Audio, video, and stem downloads are currently disabled.

Price: Free + $10/mo
AI access: AI included
Platforms: Web

WellSaid Studio

Develop a narrated sample through alternate takes, pronunciation replacements and delivery cues, with paid allowances measured by downloaded audio.

Price: From $19/mo
AI access: AI included
Platforms: Web