Audiobook Narrator Voices

A narrator keeps a listener company for hours, so stamina matters more than flash: easy on the ear, steady pace, emotion held in check. These 9 voices narrated Dickens, Austen, Conan Doyle and Lu Xun in the theater; each has a full chapter you can play.

9 voices

Play a sample, or open a voice for narration, dialogue and ad clips.

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George

🇺🇸George

Warm, captivating middle-aged male storyteller with unhurried pacing. A first pick for audiobooks, bedtime stories and history documentaries — easy on the ears for hours.

MaleWarmAudiobookStoryteller
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A refined British butler in crisp RP: calm, dry, impeccably courteous. Perfect for English audiobooks, British ads, history docs and premium brand narration.

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Alice

🇺🇸Alice

Clear, engaging middle-aged female educator voice. A safe bet for online courses, explainers, corporate training and tutorial videos — precise and pleasant.

FemaleEducatorCourseExplainer
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Lily

🇺🇸Lily

Velvety actress voice with nuanced emotion and layered delivery. Made for audiobooks, film trailers, romantic short dramas and ads that need real acting.

FemaleVelvetyActressEmotional
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Brian

🇺🇸Brian

Deep, resonant and comforting male voice — late-night radio quality. Ideal for meditation guides, sleep content, emotional storytelling and premium brand ads.

MaleDeepComfortingMeditation
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An intimate late-night radio voice: low, soft, slightly breathy, spoken close to the mic. Sets the mood for podcasts, emotional radio, sleep content and meditation.

MaleRadioPodcastSoothing
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An elderly Chinese pingshu storyteller: gravelly, rich, with dramatic rise-and-fall cadence. Ideal for history tales, guofeng content, audiobooks and cultural tourism.

MalePingshuHeritageElder
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Yun

🇨🇳Yun

Prime Mandarin broadcast anchor: crisp standard pronunciation with poised gravitas. Great for government/corporate films, documentary narration and educational audio.

FemaleMandarinAnchorDocumentary
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A low, velvety, confident mature female voice with a touch of husk. Ideal for courses, corporate training, luxury/beauty ads and knowledge content.

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Hear them in character

Real performances from the theater. Open one to hear the whole scene with the script.

How to choose and use them

  1. 01

    Match the narrator to the book

    Warm and storytelling: George, Watson in A Scandal in Bohemia. Period British: the British Butler, who narrates A Christmas Carol. Clear and neutral: Alice, Pride and Prejudice.

  2. 02

    Listen to a whole chapter first

    A ten-second sample can’t tell you whether a voice tires the ear. Play one of the full chapters below for a few minutes before you commit.

  3. 03

    Two ways to do a whole book

    One narrator in long-form audiobooks, up to 50,000 characters a job; a full cast in the audio drama studio. Which to choose and what it costs: novel to audiobook.

FAQ

Which voice should narrate an English audiobook?
George for warm fiction; the British Butler for period British books; Alice or Lily for a clear, even read; Brian for something low and calm.
Which voice for a Chinese audiobook?
The Late-Night DJ for first-person and literary fiction, the Old Storyteller for historical and folk tales, Yun for formal or factual books.
What does narration cost?
70 credits per 1,000 characters, or 40 on the Flash model for a single narrator. A 90,000-word novel is about 500,000 characters: 35,000 credits, or about 20,000 on Flash.