Skip to content
The Tortoise and the Hare
Aesop's Fables — Full cinematic production

A virtual production house for publishers. A cinematic listening experience for readers.

Send a manuscript. Get back a broadcast-quality cinematic audiobook — distinct voices for every character, original score, full sound design — distributed automatically to Spotify, YouTube, and more. Every title goes live in Embervox Theater with AI companion features built in.

12

specialist agents, in parallel

3x

audience — English, Hindi, Spanish by default

70+

languages at near-zero marginal cost

Audio is eating publishing.

36% year-over-year growth. 70% of new releases will have audio editions by 2027. Listeners don't read anymore — they listen on commutes, at bedtime, at the gym. The publishers who have audio catalogs win the algorithm. The publishers who don't disappear from discovery.

Most backlists have zero audio editions — not because publishers don't want them, but because at $200–400 per finished hour, producing a full catalog is economically impossible for anyone but bestseller publishers. Meanwhile, competitors with audio are capturing the listener relationships that compound.

Every month without audio editions, your backlist loses discoverability to competitors who do have them. The publishers moving now are building audio-first catalogs. The window to be early is closing.

Hear the difference.

Same manuscript. Raw AI narration on the left. Full cinematic production on the right. Hit play on both.

The Tortoise and the Hare
Single voice, no production
The Tortoise and the Hare
Multi-voice, SFX, music, mastered

“Cinematic” means something specific.

Distinct voices for every character. Sound effects generated from the story — placed precisely where the script calls for them. Original music scored to each scene's emotional arc. Spatial reverb that puts characters inside real acoustic environments. A self-adjusting mix where music always yields to the voice.

That's what every Embervox title gets. Not as an upgrade. As the default.

How it works

01

Send your manuscript

Any format — TXT, DOCX, PDF.

02

The creative director directs

Reads your manuscript, writes the full cinematic direction script — emotion cues, pacing marks, and SFX annotations per line, per character.

03

The specialists produce

Casting director assigns voices. Sound designer builds the soundscape. Composer scores the chapter. Mixing engineer assembles the mix.

04

QC agent validates

Five gates. Self-healing remediation loop. When a chapter fails, the agent diagnoses root cause and dispatches the fix automatically.

05

You publish

Distribution agent submits directly to Spotify, Apple Books, and YouTube via automated integrations. Hoopla, OverDrive, Libby, and podcast RSS packaged and ready. Done in days.

Our work

Aesop's Fables

13 chapters | 8 voices | ~28 min

View case study →

The Wizard of Oz

5 chapters | 12 voices | ~45 min

View case study →

Alice in Wonderland

12 chapters | 15 voices | ~30 min

View case study →

Embervox Theater

Not just audiobooks — cinematic experiences.

Every title produced by Embervox goes live in Embervox Theater with a full AI companion layer built in. Listeners don't just press play — they interact.

Ask Your Guide

Tap to speak and ask anything about the story. Answers are grounded in the text, cite specific chapters, and never spoil what's ahead.

Recaps

AI-generated chapter summaries so listeners never lose their place, even after a long break.

Transcript Sync

Follow along with scene-level text highlighting as the audio plays.

Language Switch

Same story, same voices, any language. Switch between English, Hindi, Spanish, and more — produced from a single manuscript.

Learning Mode

Auto-pauses at scene boundaries with comprehension prompts. Built for educational and children's content.

Distributed everywhere, by default.

Streaming & Purchase

SpotifyAutomated
Apple BooksAutomated
YouTubeAutomated
Podcast RSSAutomated

Library

HooplaManual submission
OverDriveManual submission
LibbyManual submission

Coming soon

Today we produce for you. Soon, you'll produce yourself.

We're building the infrastructure to make cinematic audiobook production available to every publisher — starting with full-service, evolving toward self-serve.

Ready to produce your first audiobook?

Sign up free. Upload a manuscript. Hear it transformed.

Start Free