How to Turn a Novlr Project Into an Audiobook With AI

If you write in Novlr, your manuscript already lives in a clean, browser-based workspace built for novelists. Turning that project into a finished audiobook takes a few steps: export your book out of Novlr, bring the text into AudioProducer.ai, choose the voice or voices that fit the story, and generate an MP3 you download and keep. The whole path stays in the browser, and you own the file at the end. Here is how it works, start to finish.

Exporting your work from Novlr

Novlr keeps each project as a set of chapters inside its editor, so the first job is getting that text into a portable file. Novlr can export your project to DOCX (a Word document) and to EPUB (an ebook file). Either format carries the plain prose you need. Open your project, find the export option in the project menu, and download a copy to your computer.

A few things to check before you export. Decide whether you want the full book in one file or a chapter at a time. A single DOCX of the whole manuscript is the simplest way to start, and you can always come back and do individual chapters later if you want to release the audio in installments. Look over the exported file once it downloads: front matter, author notes, and any placeholder text tend to ride along, and you will want to trim those so the narration reads only the story itself.

Bringing the text into AudioProducer

With a DOCX or EPUB in hand, the next step is importing it. AudioProducer reads the text of your export, so you can paste a chapter directly or bring in the document and work through it section by section. If you write long books, splitting the work into chapters keeps each generation focused and makes it easy to re-do a single chapter later without touching the rest.

This is also the moment to do a quick cleanup pass. Straighten any odd characters that survived the export, confirm scene breaks are where you expect, and read the first page aloud in your head. Audio is unforgiving of typos that the eye skims past on the page, so a short proof now saves a re-generate later. For a closer look at moving a book file across, our guide on converting a Word manuscript to an audiobook covers the same import path in more detail.

Casting the voice or voices

A novel is more than narration. You have a narrator, and often a cast of characters who each deserve to sound like themselves. In AudioProducer you can assign a single narrator for the whole book, or give distinct voices to your point-of-view characters so a reader always knows who is speaking. Audition a voice against a real scene from your book, not a neutral sample paragraph. A voice that handles calm exposition well may not carry a tense argument, and the audition tells you before you commit the whole chapter.

If you want to narrate in your own voice, or a voice you have permission to use, cloning is available with consent. Use your own voice or one you are authorized to use. That consent rule is firm, and it keeps the finished audiobook clean to publish anywhere you like.

Generating and downloading the MP3

Once the cast is set, generate the audio. AudioProducer produces a finished MP3 you download to your own machine. You can pull the whole book as one file or export chapter by chapter, which is handy if you plan to release a serialized version or want to swap out a single chapter after a re-record. Listen through before you call it done. Names, invented words, and place names are the usual spots that need a second pass, and re-generating a single chapter is quick.

Pricing follows one simple idea: a words-per-month quota. You can start free with 1,200 words and no card, and paid plans run from $39.99 per month. There is one number to watch, the words you convert, so you always know where you stand.

Where the finished file goes

Here is the part worth being clear about. AudioProducer gives you the audio file. It does not distribute, publish, or host your audiobook. There is no automatic upload to Audible, Spotify, Apple Books, ACX, a library system, or a podcast feed. You take the MP3 and publish it wherever you already publish, or hand it to listeners directly.

That ownership is the point. The file is yours, so you can sell it on your own store, offer it to your newsletter, give chapters to beta readers, or upload it to whichever retailer you choose after checking that platform's own policy. Novlr keeps your writing portable, and the finished audio stays just as portable. If you also draft in other tools, the same path works from a Scrivener project, an Atticus book, or a Dabble manuscript. Everything else we have written on production sits in the full guide index.