Introducing Character Casting in Audiobooks

Every character in your book has a voice. Character Casting helps you find it.

Authors write characters with distinct voices in their heads, shaped by dialogue, description, and tone. Character Casting in Audiobooks is built to close the gap between the voice the author imagines and the voice the listener hears. Upload your manuscript and Audiobooks detects the characters, proposes a voice for each one, and lets you preview them on real dialogue from the book rather than a generic sample.

Bring every character in your book to life with a distinct, expressive voice that matches the way you wrote them. Swap voices until every character sounds right, and when you change a character's voice, every line they speak updates across the entire book.

The flow also pre-fills a pronunciation dictionary with unusual names, places, and terms from your manuscript, so you assign each pronunciation in one place and it carries across every chapter. Break lengths for paragraph and chapter pacing are configured the same way, set once and applied throughout.

What you can do with Character Casting

Upload your manuscript and Audiobooks takes you through three steps:

• Characters: Audiobooks detects the characters in your book and proposes a voice for each one, previewed on real dialogue from the manuscript.
• Pronunciation: review a pre-filled dictionary for unusual names, places, and terms pulled from your book.
• Delivery: configure break lengths for consistent paragraph and chapter pacing.

From manuscript to audiobook

Audiobooks supports narration in 90+ languages with a library of over 10,000 voices, and you can clone your own voice in seconds if you want to narrate yourself. Once your audiobook is finished, you can publish directly to ElevenReader or download and distribute to any major platform. Traditional audiobook production can cost thousands of dollars per finished hour and take months to complete. Character Casting compresses that timeline to minutes while giving you full control over how every character in your book sounds.

Who this is for

Character Casting is built for authors, self-publishers, and professional publishers who want to reach the millions of listeners who will never open the print version. Audio is how a growing share of readers consume books, and Character Casting is the fastest way to get your manuscript there.

Try it today

Character Casting is available now in Audiobooks. Upload your manuscript and give your characters the voices they deserve: https://elevenlabs.io/audiobooks