Audiobook production

An audiobook is not a long TTS clip. It is a structured deliverable of many chapterized files, each of which must pass an automated loudness/noise gate, carry the right metadata, and sound like the same performer that opened Chapter

1. The problems that dominate this work — voice drift over ten hours, a proper noun mispronounced 40 times, a footnote that makes no sense read aloud, a file rejected for a -58 dB noise floor, a platform that silently bans AI narration — do not exist in short-clip synthesis. This skill is about managing hour-scale production, not about generating one good sentence.

This is a craft skill, provider-neutral. Generative voice tools are referenced by capability (pronunciation lexicon, SSML support, seed/consistency control, per-chapter regeneration), not by brand. Specific tools and retail platforms are named only as illustrative examples or as dated policy facts.

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