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Ethical Digital Narration: What It Means for Indie Authors ft. Phil Marshall of Spoken Press (EP#552)

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Ever wanted to create an audiobook but been scared off by the price tag? Phil Marshall, founder of Spoken.Press, built an AI-powered platform specifically for indie authors who want professional-quality audio without the professional-level costs.

In this episode we chat about:

  • Phil’s path from surgeon to tech founder and sci-fi author
  • What “ethical AI narration” means — consenting voice actors who are credited and compensated
  • The difference between text-to-speech (TTS) and speech-to-speech (STS) and when to use each
  • How Spoken analyses your manuscript to recommend voices matched to your characters
  • Creating multi-voice and full-cast audiobooks on a self-publishing budget
  • Where you can distribute AI-narrated audiobooks (spoiler: more places than you think)

About Phil Marshall

Phil Marshall is the founder and CEO of Spoken (spoken.press), the AI Audiobook Company. With a background in medicine and 25+ years in technology — including founding a conversational AI company in healthcare — Phil built Spoken after experiencing firsthand how expensive and complicated audiobook production was for his own debut novel. Spoken now serves thousands of authors worldwide, from first-time self-publishers to New York Times bestsellers.

Website: https://www.spoken.press/


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