AI agent for voice actors
Audiobook Pronunciation Prep Agent
A complete pronunciation and character guide before recording starts
What it does
An audiobook can have hundreds of names, foreign words and characters, and stopping mid-session to look them up wastes studio time. Before recording, this agent reads the manuscript and lists every unusual word, name and place, with chapter references. It looks up pronunciations in reliable sources and marks uncertain ones as questions for the author. Names the author invented always go to the author. It also builds a character list with age, accent and voice notes taken from the text. The narrator approves the questions before they are sent. As answers come back, it updates the guide and checks that nothing is left open. Open items get a follow-up after approval. Finally it checks the guide covers every chapter. Edge case: a name two characters pronounce differently on purpose is kept as two entries with notes.
How it works
Follow the arrows from top to bottom. The orange dashed arrow is the loop: when a check fails, the agent goes back and tries again.
Read the steps as a list
- Manuscript received
- Extract names, places and unusual words
- Look up pronunciations
- Build character list with voice notes
- Narrator approves questions for the authorThe agent waits here for your OK.
- Record author answers in the guide
- Is every word and character resolved?If not: draft a follow-up to the author or search more sources. Back to step 6.
- Group the guide by chapter for the session
- Pronunciation and character guide
How it decides
It lists words not in common use, confirms them from at least one reliable source, and sends the rest to the author.
- Send author-invented names to the author
- Note deliberate mispronunciations by characters
- Group words by chapter
Make it yours
Every agent is a starting point. You choose these settings for your own situation.
- Sources to use
- Question format
- Character note fields
- Days before recording to finish
What keeps you in control
It always asks you first
- Sending questions to the author or publisher
Hard limits
- Never guesses invented names
- Never contacts the author without approval
It stops when
- Done: guide complete
- Stop: author does not reply by recording date; narrator decides
Set it up
We guide you through the set-up, step by step
Members get the full set-up guide for this agent. No technical skills needed: you copy, paste and upload.
- One set of instructions to paste into your AI, with the clicks for ChatGPT, Claude, Microsoft 365 Copilot, Gemini and Grok
- The agent then walks you through connecting your own data, one source at a time
- A downloadable copy with the flow chart, the rules and the full guide
