Audiobook Production for Authors & Publishers
Professional audiobook production does not have to cost thousands.
Piggy Audiobooks creates carefully produced digital-voice audiobooks for independent authors, publishers and rights holders, from straightforward single-narrator editions to multi-character and full-cast productions.
We combine commercially licensed digital voice technology with human-directed production: voice casting, pronunciation review, editing, quality control and mastering.
Before you commit, we can create a short custom sample from your manuscript so you can hear how your audiobook could sound.
Or write to authors@piggyaudiobooks.com
Hear it before you commit
Send us an extract of up to 1,500 words and tell us the genre, intended audience and preferred voice style. We will select suitable digital voices and create a short custom sample for you to review.
There is no obligation to continue.
For full-cast sample requests, the complimentary sample may include up to 3 characters.
Opens an email to authors@piggyaudiobooks.com with these questions ready to fill in. Attach an extract of up to 1,500 words when you send it.
Production options
From one consistent narrator to a multi-character or full-cast production. Every option is human-directed, and you approve the narrator, principal character voices and general production style before full production begins.
Prices are per 1,000 words of your manuscript, in pounds sterling, so you can estimate the cost from your word count. As a rough guide, one finished hour is approximately 9,000 words. Actual running time varies with pacing and dialogue. Your quotation will confirm the word count, estimated duration and project price.
£3per 1,000 words
An 80,000-word novel: £240
Minimum project: £149
Ideal for nonfiction, memoir, short fiction and books that work best with one consistent narrator.
Includes
£5per 1,000 words
An 80,000-word novel: £400
Minimum project: £149
Designed for fiction where individual characters benefit from distinct voices.
Everything in AI Narration, plus:
Most immersive
£6per 1,000 words
An 80,000-word novel: £480
Minimum project: £149
Our most immersive option for fiction, drama, mystery, romance and other character-led books.
Includes
An 80,000-word novel costs approximately £240, £400 or £480 with AI Narration, Multi-Character Audiobook or Full-Cast Production.
| Manuscript | AI Narration | Multi-Character Audiobook | Full-Cast Production |
|---|---|---|---|
| 30,000 words | £149 (minimum project price) | £150 | £180 |
| 50,000 words | £150 | £250 | £300 |
| 60,000 words | £180 | £300 | £360 |
| 80,000 words | £240 | £400 | £480 |
| 100,000 words | £300 | £500 | £600 |
The £149 minimum project price applies.
from £8 per 1,000 words
For Full-Cast productions with more extensive sound design and effects.
Every option has a minimum project price of £149, which covers voice casting and production setup on short works. Complex productions with unusually large casts may require a custom quotation. Ask for a quotation (opens your email app)
What you receive
A completed production can include everything you need to publish your audiobook.
Your manuscript and its underlying copyright remain yours. Upon full payment, the completed production is supplied for the commercial uses agreed for the project.
How it works
You hear your book before full production starts, approve the voices, and review the finished audiobook before final delivery.
Tell us the word count, genre and type of production you are considering.
For eligible projects, we create a complimentary sample of up to approximately three minutes.
You approve the narrator, principal character voices and general production style before full production begins.
We produce the audiobook chapter by chapter and conduct technical quality checks.
You receive a review copy and one included correction round for genuine pronunciation, missing-text or synthesis errors.
After approval and final payment, we supply the finished audiobook files.
Additional services
Payment
Payment is made before full production begins.
The complimentary sample lets you assess the proposed production style before you commit to anything.
Digital voice information
Piggy Audiobooks audiobooks are narrated by digital voices, directed and checked by people. They are not human narration, and we never present them as such.
Piggy Audiobooks uses digital and AI-assisted voice technology. Digital narration will be disclosed wherever a retailer or distributor requires disclosure.
Retailer policies differ and may change. Acceptance or distribution by a particular platform cannot be guaranteed.
We use commercially licensed voices and technologies. Voice cloning of a real person is undertaken only when the necessary rights and documented consent have been provided.
Clients must own or control the necessary audiobook and adaptation rights for all submitted material.
Our productions
Explore examples of our digitally narrated productions, including stories with distinct character voices. Each title links to its complete audiobook on Spotify, where every listing has a free sample.
Edwardian motoring romance
1910
Louis Tracy
8 h 21 min
An American heiress hires a car for a thousand-mile tour of England, and the young viscount who takes the wheel in a chauffeur's cap finds danger gaining on them at every turn.
Availability: On Spotify, First-quarter preview on YouTube
Renaissance swashbuckler
1895
S. Levett Yeats
9 h 40 min
One accusation strips Ugo di Savelli of his command, his fortune and his name, and sends him across Renaissance Italy after the man who framed him.
Availability: On Spotify, First-quarter preview on YouTube
Darkly comic adventure tale
1930
Otis Adelbert Kline
44 min
An old guide in Jerusalem finally explains his limp: a prosperous young perfumer, a singer on the neighbouring rooftop, and a desert road where everything has its price.
Availability: On Spotify, First-quarter preview on YouTube
Edwardian political thriller
1903
E. Phillips Oppenheim
8 h
A warning in yellow crayon, a vanished wife, and a secret order with influence in every capital of Europe closing in on Mr. Sabin.
Availability: On Spotify, First-quarter preview on YouTube
Classic science fiction
1898
H. G. Wells
6 h 45 min
A cylinder falls on Horsell Common, and the lid begins to turn. The full novel, unabridged.
Availability: On Spotify, Read-along and illustrated audiobooks on YouTube
Classic horror
1902
W. W. Jacobs
27 min
Three wishes. One warning. A knock at the door after midnight.
Availability: On Spotify, Illustrated full-cast audiobook on YouTube
On YouTube
The Monkey's Paw by W. W. Jacobs, as it appears on our YouTube channel: a complete illustrated full-cast audiobook, with the story told in original pictures. This description refers to the YouTube edition only. 37 of our 49 audiobooks can be watched in full on the Piggy Story Studio channel, as read-along or illustrated editions; the others have first-quarter previews there.
Start with a sample
Send an extract of up to 1,500 words with your genre, audience and preferred voice style, and we will create a free 3-minute sample. There is no obligation to continue.
Request Your Free Audiobook Sample (opens your email app)
