Prepare my book for audiobook narration and recording
A narration-ready script, pronunciation guide, character voice notes, and recording checklist for producing an audiobook.
The prompt
Help me prepare my book for audiobook production.
Book details: [title, genre, word count, point of view]
Text to prepare: [PASTE a chapter or section]
Who's narrating: [me / a hired narrator / a synthetic voice]
Where it will be sold: [e.g. "ACX/Audible", "Findaway", "my website"]
Recording setup: [room, microphone, software, or "not set up yet"]
Give me:
1. A narration script of my section: keep the text, but flag lines that read badly aloud (long sentences, visual-only elements like tables or footnotes, "as you can see below") and suggest spoken alternatives for me to approve.
2. Performance marks: pauses, emphasis, scene breaks, and tone shifts, using a simple notation you explain first.
3. A pronunciation guide: names, places, invented and foreign words, with a phonetic respelling and [CONFIRM WITH AUTHOR] on anything uncertain.
4. Character voice notes: for each speaking character, age, accent if any, pace, pitch, and a sample line, plus tips to keep voices consistent across sessions.
5. Front and back matter for audio: opening and closing credits, and how to handle the table of contents, images, and links.
6. A recording and editing checklist: room treatment, mic distance, session length, pickups, chapter file naming, and technical specs to meet my retailer's current audio requirements [CONFIRM CURRENT SPECS].
7. A short plan for a retail sample (which passage, how long).
If I'm using a synthetic voice, check the retailer's current rules on AI narration and disclosure before production.
Highlighted [brackets] are blanks to replace with your own details.
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What to fill in
- title, genre, word count, point of view
- PASTE a chapter or section
- me / a hired narrator / a synthetic voice
- e.g. "ACX/Audible", "Findaway", "my website"
- room, microphone, software, or "not set up yet"
- CONFIRM WITH AUTHOR
- CONFIRM CURRENT SPECS
How this prompt is built
This prompt follows the RTF structure (Role, Task, Format). RTF tells the model who to be, what to do and what shape the answer should take. It is the quickest structure that still gives noticeably better results than a bare request.
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