For audiobook narrators
The booth engineer who catches your misreads, before they become pickups.
In a big studio, an engineer flags every skipped, added, or swapped word as you read. PromptVO does that in your home booth, then sweeps the finished chapter for anything you missed, so pickups go from days of re-recording to a few quick fixes. For the price of a finished hour, not a studio day.
1.8M+ misreads caught for narrators, and counting
Summary
Jonathan Harker journeys east through the Carpathians toward Count Dracula's castle, unsettled by the locals' warnings.
Characters
English solicitor traveling to the Count's castle.
The mysterious nobleman awaiting his guest.
Vocab
kar-PAY-thee-uhnz
kah-LESH
PAP-ree-kah HEN-dl
Weeks later, the pickups pull you back into a book you'd closed.
In a big studio, an engineer catches those words the moment you misread them. Alone in a home booth, no one does, so the proof listen comes back weeks after you've moved on, and now you're climbing into a closed book, rebuilding the voices and hunting for your place, all to fix a few words.
The pickup packet eats your hours
You finish a session feeling good, then the QC notes come back. Now you're hunting line numbers, re-recording stray words, and rebuilding momentum you already had.
You catch the misread three lines too late
By the time your ear flags the wrong word, you've kept reading. So you stop, scrub back, find your place, and lose the take you were in the middle of nailing.
A prompter you can't trust mangles the read
When a prompter drops your italics, misses your emphasis, or chokes on a hard name, you stop trusting the screen, and you stop trusting your own read. PromptVO renders your manuscript exactly as written, every italic, bold, underline, and highlight intact.
Your three steps to a clean chapter
Prep, narrate, proof: the catch-and-proof job a studio engineer does, run from your home booth. Catch the misreads as you go, and pickups become a quick touch-up, not a second recording.
BEFORE YOU READ
Every hard word, surfaced up front
Upload the manuscript and PromptVO flags the names, terms, and tongue-twisters per chapter, with pronunciations, so nothing ambushes you mid-take.
WHILE YOU NARRATE
The script follows your voice. Misreads flag live.
The page scrolls itself at your pace. Skip a word, add one, or swap one and it's caught on screen the instant it happens, so you fix it in the booth, not in post.
AFTER THE CHAPTER
Proofing shrinks the pickup packet
Live detection catches roughly 90% as you read. Upload your finished audio and proofing sweeps for the misreads and silences you missed, so what is left is a quick touch-up, not a second recording.
Working narrators, and the misreads they've caught
Every misread below is one a narrator caught in the booth. Live totals, and a few of the people behind them.
misreads caught during narration
and counting
words narrated
and counting
generative AI models trained on your voice or manuscripts
We never clone your voice or run generative AI on your manuscripts.
"I've been using PromptVO to help narrate my audiobooks. It follows my voice and scrolls along as I read, so it's incredibly easy to keep a steady pace. The ability to customize font size enhances readability, ensuring I never miss a word. Efficiency is always key in narrating, and PromptVO significantly improves my narration workflow and productivity!"
Lee Goettl
Owner & Narrator at Goettl Voices
"PromptVO has been incredibly useful as a teleprompter. The ease of use for timing and font sizing has been instrumental in maintaining my narration pace. As a part-time narrator, the monthly subscription is very reasonable. Thank you, PromptVO, for providing such a valuable tool for the audiobook narrator community!"
Holly Haverkorn
Owner & Voice Actor at Holly Haverkorn LLC
"As a dyslexic narrator, I often flip words even when the sentence still makes sense, so my ear doesn't catch it. PromptVO catches those misreads every time, and I fix them right in my initial audio. It's significantly reduced my pickups without adding to my recording time."
Tiana Holley
Audiobook narrator
A companion, never a clone
We built PromptVO to help narrators, not replace them. Synthetic voice clones are creeping into audiobooks, and we think that is a loss for everyone who loves being read to. So we will never clone your voice or train AI on the unpublished books you trust us with. Here is exactly what we do, and never do.
Never trained on your manuscript
Your manuscript is the author's IP. We never train generative language models on it. It powers your session and nothing else.
Never used to clone your voice
Your recorded audio is never fed to voice-cloning or generative voice models. Your voice stays your voice.
Never sold, never mined
We run our own models and sign zero-retention agreements with every provider, so your work is never shipped around, sold, or stored to mine later.
PromptVO signed the NAVA fAIr Voices pledge, and we hold ourselves to it.
The National Association of Voice Actors' public standard for ethical AI: consent, control, and no training of synthetic voice models on your work.
See the pledge and signatoriesPricing
Skip one evening of pickups and you've covered a finished hour.
Start free on Audition with monthly hours of every feature, then pay as you go. Indie and Pro include generous monthly hours of book prep, narration, and proofing, then bill a low overage. Running a team? Studios is a custom plan.
Running a team or a studio? Get volume pricing, shared seats, and a plan built around your catalog.
Upload your manuscript and the price is set on the spot, straight from its word count. Nothing is charged until you decide to go ahead.
Frequently asked questions
The questions narrators ask before their first session.
Can I use this with my existing recording setup?
Yes. PromptVO works alongside any DAW or recording software. Run it in place of your current PDF or manuscript viewer, and both PromptVO and your DAW can share your microphone input.
Is this built for long recording sessions?
Yes. PromptVO is built for long-form audiobook narration. The longer the session, the more misreads it catches before they reach your pickup packet, and the less you scrub back to find your place.
Does PromptVO preserve highlights and font styles from my manuscript?
Yes. Highlights, bold, italics, and underline from your original manuscript are preserved in the narration view.
What script formats do you support?
PDF, DOC, DOCX, and plain text. We reflow your manuscript into a clean reading view so you're narrating, not hunting for your place.
How does pricing work?
Pricing is by the finished hour. When you upload a manuscript, we divide its word count by 9,300 to get its finished hours and show you the exact price before anything is charged. You decide whether to go ahead, and nothing is billed until you do.
Finish a book and actually be done with it
No pickup packet pulling you back weeks later to rebuild the voices and re-find your place in a book you'd already closed. You catch the misreads now and keep moving forward. Free hours every month: no credit card, no monthly fee to start.
Start freeWorks with any recording setup.