Echoes of Tomorrow
Arthur Maxwell dies in a Portland hospital in 2142 and wakes aboard a starship, healed, to learn that 712 years have passed.
Hollywood Lights to Tuscan Nights
A Hollywood star escapes to a secluded Tuscan villa, desperate for silence, privacy and something real.
Free AI audiobook generator

AI Audiobook Generator for Your Stories

Write a chapter, then hear it. Narration is part of writing on DreamPress — a voice for the narrator, a voice for each character, and the words lighting up as they are spoken.

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Give it a voice

She said his name once, quietly, and the whole room leaned in to listen.✦

Twenty-nine narrators, and every character in your story can have a voice of their own. Blend up to three into a custom voice nobody else has, then listen as the words light up while they're read — tap any word to hear it from there.

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Published on DreamPress by the people who wrote them. Open one, or write the story you would rather be listening to.

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Sci-Fi
Echoes of Tomorrow
Arthur Maxwell dies in a Portland hospital in 2142 and wakes aboard a starship, healed, to learn that 712 years have passed.
Romance
Hollywood Lights to Tuscan Nights
A Hollywood star escapes to a secluded Tuscan villa, desperate for silence, privacy and something real.
Sci-Fi
Starfall's Shadow
A pilot losing faith in a decades-long war is summoned to a mission that puts him beside the enemy.
Romance
Nile's Gilded Cage
Mumbai hustler Rohan Kapoor falls through an anomaly in the Ganges and lands in ancient Egypt, branded a demon before pharaoh Lyra Nefertari.
Gothic
Pyre and Penance
A celebrated alchemist arrives at Thorne Manor in chains, stripped of her magic and months of memory.
Fantasy
The Dead King's War
A ghost writer's quill is seized by a presence that speaks with the voice of the recently deceased king.
Fantasy
The Tide Wardens
Twice a year the Grey Sea abandons forty miles of coast and exposes a drowned world of temples, streets and lurking dangers.
Thriller
The Heist
A gifted Detroit locksmith with a gambling debt, and the one job that could clear it or end him.
Adventure
Skybound Amulet
A university tinkerer races through the Aetherium Docks and barely reaches the airship Zephyr before it lifts.
How narration works here

Made to be heard

Read along

Hear it as it is written

Narration is part of generation, not an export you queue afterwards. The chapter arrives, the voice starts, and the words light up in time with it.

Voices

A voice for each of them

Choose a voice per character from the stock library, or blend one of your own. The narrator takes the prose; everybody else takes their own lines.

Still an editor

Change a line, hear it again

The chapter stays yours to edit after you have heard it. Fix the sentence that did not land, then play it back — replays are one credit, and included with Pro.

Openers

Chapters worth listening to

Take one as it stands or bend it to your taste. One sentence is all the story needs.

Bedtime A lighthouse keeper reads the shipping forecast to a sea that answers back. Two voices Every night the pilot and the tower talk, and neither of them is where they claim to be. Ghost story The tape recorder in the attic keeps recording after I switch it off. Slow burn He reads to her over the phone because neither of them can say it out loud. Road trip Nine hours of motorway, one confession, and a radio that only plays 1997. Full cast The trial of a queen, told by the four people who swore they were loyal.

The long version

How narration is generated, what it costs, and where to start.

Five steps

How the AI audiobook generator works

  1. Create a story. Start with a premise, then review the characters, cover and plot.
  2. Generate a chapter. DreamPress writes the prose for you to inspect and edit.
  3. Refine the text. Correct names, dialogue or pacing before listening.
  4. Play the narration. Use the story's read-aloud control to hear the generated chapter.
  5. Continue writing. Steer the next chapter, then listen again as the story develops.

Listen to a DreamPress story instead of reading every chapter on screen. Audio narration is built into story generation, so the text you create can be read aloud as part of the same project. Write and edit a chapter first, then use narration to hear how its pacing, dialogue and sentence length work. This is a text-to-speech story feature for DreamPress chapters rather than a separate upload service. It keeps writing, visual material and listening together, making it useful when reviewing a draft, following a story away from the editor or switching between reading and audio.

What makes DreamPress different

  • Narration is part of story generation. There is no separate document workflow for generated chapters.
  • The text remains editable. Improve the chapter before or after listening to it.
  • Writing can continue. Generate and steer later chapters within the same story.
  • Characters, covers and scene images stay together. Audio is one part of a broader story project.
  • Audio is included with generation. Narration is bundled with generation rather than charged as a separate action.

When to listen to your story

Read-aloud is useful at more than one stage. Listen after a first draft to notice repeated phrases or dialogue that sounds unnatural. Play a previous chapter before steering the next one when you need to return to its mood. Use audio when you want to follow the story without looking at the editor. Because you can still edit the chapter, narration becomes a way to review the prose as well as a way to experience the finished scene.

Narration, asked and answered

Can DreamPress read generated stories aloud?

Yes. Audio narration is available for generated story chapters.

Can I edit a chapter before listening?

Yes. Chapter content is editable in the rich text editor.

Can I upload any document for text to speech?

No. This feature narrates chapters created inside DreamPress rather than acting as a general document upload service.

Does narration replace the written story?

No. The text remains available to read and edit while audio provides another way to follow it.

Is audio available with generation?

Yes. Audio narration is bundled with generation, and Pro includes narration and replays.

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