Orpheus · Audiobook production

Your book, performed.

Orpheus turns a finished manuscript into a full-cast audiobook — a narrator and a voice for every character, chosen by ear, with ambience and sound design placed scene by scene, then mixed, mastered, and packaged for audiobook retailers. Produced on our own hardware, from the book you already wrote.

See what Orpheus does

Orpheus is in active development · the publishing tools below are free to use today

Why we built it

Turn your book into an experience.

The word processor was never really about typing. It was about closing the distance between a thought and a finished page. You think it, it appears, you shape it. That's it.

Orpheus does the same thing, one step further down the line.

A manuscript is type. But there are hours in a reader's day when type is useless — the commute, the treadmill, the dishes, the eyes that gave out at 40. Orpheus takes the finished text and turns it into narration for exactly those hours.

Not robot-reads-your-book narration. Character voices, mood, and ambience — a cinematic listen, produced from the manuscript you already wrote.

Independent authors have had the writing half of this since the 1980s. The listening half has stayed locked behind expensive studio budgets and narrator invoices.

Discover Orpheus

Our audiobook-production platform — in active development

How it works

From manuscript to finished audiobook.

Five steps. You make the decisions only an author can make; Orpheus does the production work.

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1 · Load the manuscript

Your file, your chapters

Upload the .docx or .txt you already have. Chapters come from your own headings and keep the titles you gave them — nothing is renumbered or renamed. Add a book bible if you have one, or just type a few lines about the story.

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2 · Orpheus reads it

Every chapter, every paragraph

Who speaks each line, who else is in the room, what they are doing, where the scene takes place, and what a listener should hear under it. The result is a script — not a rewrite of your book.

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3 · You edit the script

One line per voice

A novel buries dialogue inside narration; a recording booth cannot. The editor lays the chapter out one line per voice, so you can hand a line to the right character, adjust the sound marks, and rewrite anything that reads well on the page but badly out loud. Hear any line read back in your browser before you commit to it.

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4 · Cast by ear

Narrator and every character

Every voice has an audition clip, paced the way your book will be read. Listen, then choose. If nothing in the library fits, describe the voice you want and Orpheus builds it — or upload a recording, with consent, and cast a real voice.

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5 · Record

Mixed, mastered, packaged

Narration, character performances, ambience, and effects are recorded and balanced into one listen, then delivered as finished audio with a cover checked against retailer specification — ready to submit.

What makes it different

Not text-to-speech. A production.

Orpheus is built for one thing — a cinematic audio play made from a novel — and it keeps the author's judgement where it belongs.

A cast, not a reader

Dialogue is attributed line by line and given to the character who speaks it. Your narrator narrates; your characters talk.

Sound that stays under the voice

Room tone where a scene needs a place, an effect where the story turns — roughly one every couple of hundred words, never wallpaper, and never louder than the person speaking.

You cast by ear

Who your characters are and what they sound like is the one judgement no software should take from you. Orpheus proposes; you listen and decide.

A voice you invent — or your own

Describe a voice in plain words and it joins the library. Or upload a recording, with recorded consent, and have the book read in a real voice.

Written for the ear

Orpheus flags what reads fine on the page and badly out loud — a bare number, a fragment, a line of dialogue nobody claims — and hands it back to you to fix. It does not rewrite your prose behind your back.

Produced on our own hardware

Narration is generated on Tunmire's own GPU hardware rather than handed to a third-party service. A voice recording you upload is not kept once your audiobook is accepted — and you can have it deleted sooner.

For whom

Built for authors who want to be heard.

Audio is how a growing share of readers finish books, and it has stayed out of reach of the people who write most of them. That gap is what Orpheus is for.

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Novelists

A full-cast reading of your novel, without a studio, a casting director, or a narrator's invoice.

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Series authors

The same narrator and the same character voices held steady across every book in the series.

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Memoir & nonfiction authors

Your book in a voice that suits it — including, if you want it, your own.

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Small presses & indie publishers

Produce a list in audio without building a production team around it.

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Self-publishers

Print, ebook, and audio from one manuscript — and the print and ebook half is free to use today.

The rest of the suite

The print half is free, and it is live now.

Orpheus starts from a finished book. These are the tools that get you one — free to use, with no AI writing anywhere in them.

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Forge Live

Edit · Lay out · Finish

Bring your manuscript, edit and lay it out in a clean, distraction-free editor, then export a print-ready PDF and a validated EPUB for print-on-demand services and every major ebook retailer.

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Iris Live

Book Cover Studio

A full cover studio for print-ready paperback and hardcover wraps and ebook covers. Bring your own art and lay out your title, spine, and back cover to spec — spine width and safe margins calculated for you.

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Orpheus In development

Audiobook production

Manuscript to full-cast audiobook: script, cast, sound design, master, package. See how it works →

Under the hood, none of this guesses at your book. Forge lays out and renders your PDF and EPUB itself and validates the EPUB with EPUBCheck. Orpheus reads your manuscript to build a script, and produces the audio in-house on Tunmire's own NVIDIA GPU hardware with self-hosted speech synthesis and FFmpeg mastering. Your manuscript is used to produce your book and for nothing else — we do not sell it or publish it. Building the script uses a commercial AI model; every other stage — narration, sound design, mastering — runs on our own systems.

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