Audiobook Pre-Production in Insight

Insight’s view of your book, along with our document tools, can help you prepare your book for audio production:

1. Use AI Chat to build voice profiles of the narrator and characters
2. Our Scan tool can find, define, and pronounce various words throughout your book.
3. Our Adapt tool can reformat your manuscript into an audio script.

Narrator Profile

Use Insight’s AI Chat to help you create a profile of your audiobook narrator. This is especially helpful for audiobooks narrated by a single voice actor, or for books that have a primary narrator.

The prompt below is giving AI the task of identifying the book’s narrator and then creating several profiles that might be a good fit.

I am turning this book into an audiobook, and I need to select a voice actor to narrate the audiobook. Consider the narrator of the story, then give me five appropriate voice actor profiles that include voice elements like accent, age, gender, and anything else of significance I should consider.

Character Voices and Accents

AI Chat can also help you build a list of your book’s characters and their voice profiles. Use this to brief your audiobook narrator, or to help identify voice actors for a full-cast audiobook.

You can follow up the prompt below by asking for more detail about various characters, if necessary.

Please give me a list of all the characters in this book and their voice profiles, including age, gender, accent, and other relevant details that might influence how this character speaks

Scan for Foreign Words

Insight’s Scan tool looks page-by-page across your book for content and elements you define in your instructions.

The result is a report that includes a both a summary of the findings, as well as detailed list of anything that matches your instructions.

Fill in the Scan tool form using the instructions below to get a complete list of foreign-language words in your book, and a guide to pronouncing these words.

(Note: this works in multiple languages. Replace “non-English words” and “English speakers” with whatever language you are working in.)

Scanning instructions:

Please identify any non-English words, terms, and phrases in this text. Ignore the names of people, places, and companies. For each term identified, please provide a guide to pronouncing the word for English speakers.

Scanning summary:

Given the previously provided document which contains foreign-language terms and pronunciations, give me a brief summary of the type of words you found and any patterns or trends that stand out.

Adapt to Audio Script

Insight’s Adapt tool processes your book page by page and returns an adapted version of the original text—based on a prompt or custom instructions you enter.

You can use this tool to reformat your book into audio script using the instructions below.

(Note: Factors like first-person vs. third-person narration or lots of dialogue without attribution can skew the results. We recommend testing this on a few pages first before running the entire book.)

Adapt instructions:

Reformat this document into an audiobook script. Clearly label all lines with the appropriate speaker: use “NARRATOR” for narration (including first-person narration) and identify each character by name for their dialogue. Do not change any text in the document.

Questions?

Get in touch with us at support@veristage.com. We’re happy to help you craft chat prompts and custom instructions for our Scan and Adapt tools to make them work for you.