How to publish an AI-narrated audiobook on Voices by INaudio

The short answer

Not today. INaudio takes AI-narrated audiobooks only as an unmodified LPF package generated by Google Play Books, ElevenLabs or Spoken Press. Audio from any other provider, or exported as standard audio files, cannot currently be accepted.

An LPF package comes from the approved provider; an MP3 or a standard audiobook master cannot be converted into one. Titles misrepresented as Human Narrated may be rejected or removed.

What to disclose

Set by INaudio from the LPF package: the narrator credit cannot be edited, and a Digital Voice Narration disclosure is added to the description. An AI-narrated title must never be submitted as Human Narrated.

Who keeps the master

Not stated in the source.

How to publish it

1. 01

   Check INaudio's approved-provider list

   INaudio takes AI-narrated audiobooks only as an unmodified LPF package from Google Play Books, ElevenLabs or Spoken Press. An audiobook narrated with AudioPod is not on that list today.

2. 02

   Do not look for an LPF converter

   The LPF package is produced by the approved provider. An MP3 or a standard audiobook master cannot be turned into one, so there is nothing to convert.

3. 03

   Never submit it as Human Narrated

   INaudio says AI-narrated titles must not be uploaded as Human Narrated, and titles misrepresented that way may be rejected or removed.

4. 04

   Use a route that takes your file

   Kobo, PublishDrive and Author's Republic take audio you produce yourself. Each has its own guide below.

Sources

Make the audiobook

• Audiobook StudioManuscript to finished chapters, exported as a package that meets ACX audio-file specifications and carries AI-narration disclosure metadata.
• Where AI-narrated audiobooks are acceptedEvery route side by side, with the source and the date checked on each row.

Other stores

• How to publish an AI-narrated audiobook on Author's RepublicAuthor's Republic is testing distribution of AI-voice audiobooks made elsewhere. How it labels them, what it will not promise, and why you ask before uploading.
• How to publish an AI-narrated audiobook on KoboKobo Writing Life accepts AI-narrated audiobooks. The exact narrator contributor wording it asks for, and the two contributors Kobo wants on every audiobook.
• How to publish an AI-narrated audiobook on StreetLibStreetLib takes audiobooks you produce yourself, but its pages say nothing direct about AI narration. What its guidelines say about AI, and why you ask first.
• How to publish an AI-narrated audiobook on PublishDrivePublishDrive distributes AI-narrated audiobooks to most of its stores when the AI use is declared. Where the declaration goes, and the stores that say no.
• How to publish an AI-narrated audiobook on SpotifySpotify for Authors accepts digitally narrated audiobooks from the providers it lists. The disclosure option to tick, and why you ask before uploading.
• How to publish an AI-narrated audiobook on Apple BooksApple Books digital narration is Apple's own programme and does not take your file. How an audiobook narrated elsewhere reaches Apple Books instead.
• How to publish an AI-narrated audiobook on Google Play BooksGoogle Play's auto-narration reads your EPUB with Google's own voices. How an audiobook you narrated elsewhere reaches Google Play Books instead.
• How to publish an AI-narrated audiobook on AudibleWhy a direct ACX upload is closed to AI narration, why KDP Virtual Voice leaves the master with Amazon, and what to ask a distributor about Audible.