Share your manuscript
Tell us about your book and send the finished manuscript. We confirm your quote in writing before anything is produced.
OwnVoice Studio
Your book. Your voice. A finished audiobook.
OwnVoice Studio turns your manuscript into an audiobook narrated in your own cloned voice. You record your voice, you give consent in the open, you review the narration, and the finished masters are yours outright.
$200 per finished hour plus a $400 production fee. $1,400 minimum, $2,900 maximum, confirmed in writing before production begins.
Consent first
Your voice is recorded by you, in your own voice, with consent attestations you tick yourself. Nothing begins without them.
Reviewed with you
A pronunciation review loop checks names, places, and terms with you, so the narration says your book the way you wrote it.
Owned outright
The finished masters are owned outright by you, the author. Not rented, not licensed back to you, not locked to one store.
One clear price
$200 per finished hour plus a $400 production fee, with a $1,400 minimum and a $2,900 maximum. No open ended billing.
The studio
An audiobook in the voice your readers already trust: yours.
Most authors face a hard choice. Record the audiobook yourself and spend days in front of a microphone, or hire a studio narrator and let a stranger carry your book. OwnVoice Studio is the third way.
You record a voice sample in your own voice and confirm your consent. We build a clone of your voice for your book, produce the narration chapter by chapter, and work through pronunciation with you until names and terms sound right. You review the chapters, and we deliver finished masters that belong to you.
The narration is digitally produced from your own voice, and we say so plainly, on this page and in our terms. Honesty about the method is part of the product.
How it works
From manuscript to masters, in five steps
The full process, with what we ask of you at each step, is on the How It Works page.
Record your voice
You record in your own voice and tick the consent attestations yourself. Your cloned voice is built from that recording, for your book.
Approve the sound
We produce the narration and run the pronunciation review loop with you, checking names, places, and terms against your intent.
Review your chapters
You listen and flag anything that needs another pass. We correct it and produce the finished masters.
Own your masters
The finished masters are delivered to you and owned outright by you, to sell and distribute as you choose.
Start with a conversation
Write to contact@onikanglobal.com with your book title and its approximate length, and we will reply with the next steps and your quote.
Consent and ethics
Your voice is yours. We work on that basis, in writing.
Voice cloning asks for trust, so the rules are stated before any recording happens, not after.
Only your own voice
We clone the voice of the author, recorded by the author. We do not clone the voice of any other person, and we do not build a voice from recordings you do not have the right to use.
Consent you give yourself
Intake includes consent attestations that you read and tick yourself, in the studio flow, before your voice is built. No consent, no clone. That is the rule, without exception.
Built for your book
Your cloned voice is built for your project and used for your project. It is not sold, not shared, and not used to narrate another author's book.
Disclosed, always
The finished audiobook is narrated by a digital clone of your voice, produced with your consent. We disclose that plainly, and we encourage you to disclose it wherever your audiobook is offered.
Pricing
One rate, one fee, a floor and a ceiling
Every OwnVoice Studio production is priced the same way, so you can work out your book before you ever write to us. Worked examples are on the Pricing page.
The rate
$200
Per finished hour of delivered audio, plus a $400 production fee per book.
The typical book
$1,800
A typical book of seven finished hours: 7 times $200, plus the $400 fee.
The promise
$1,400 to $2,900
Short books start at the $1,400 minimum. Long books stop at the $2,900 maximum. Your exact quote is confirmed in writing first.
Also from the studio
Ghost Narrator, for heritage audiobooks
Ghost Narrator is the studio service line for heritage audiobooks: family histories, memoirs, and works made to be handed down, produced for you by Onikan Global Solutions LLC.
If your project is a heritage work rather than your own manuscript in your own voice, write to contact@onikanglobal.com and tell us about it. We will reply with how the service line fits your project and a quote in writing.
Questions
Straight answers
Who owns the finished audiobook?
You do. The finished masters are owned outright by you, the author. We produce them; you own them.
Whose voice narrates my book?
Yours. You record in your own voice, confirm your consent, and we build a clone of your voice for your book. The narration is digitally produced from that clone, and we disclose it as such.
What does it cost?
$200 per finished hour plus a $400 production fee, with a $1,400 minimum and a $2,900 maximum. A typical seven hour book costs $1,800. Your exact quote is confirmed in writing before production begins.
How do names and unusual words get pronounced correctly?
Through the pronunciation review loop. We check names, places, and terms with you during production, and you review your chapters before the masters are finished.
What do you need from me to start?
A finished manuscript, a recording of your own voice, and your consent, given by you in the intake flow. Start by writing to contact@onikanglobal.com.
Begin
Hear your book in your own voice.
Tell us about your book. We will reply with the next steps and a fixed quote in writing.