How to Turn a Sudowrite Draft Into an Audiobook

You drafted your novel in Sudowrite, leaning on its Story Bible and rewrite tools to get the prose where you wanted it. Now you want people to be able to listen to it. The good news is that getting from a finished Sudowrite draft to a narrated audiobook is mostly a matter of moving clean text from one place to another, then picking voices. This guide walks the whole path, from export to a downloadable MP3 you can publish wherever you already publish.

One thing to set expectations on up front: there is no native Sudowrite-to-AudioProducer button. The two tools do not talk to each other directly. What you do instead is export your manuscript out of Sudowrite as plain text or a document, tidy it up, and bring that text into AudioProducer for narration. It is a couple of extra steps, not a wall.

Exporting your Sudowrite manuscript

Start inside Sudowrite. Open the project and find the export option in the document or project menu. Sudowrite lets you pull your writing out as a document you can save to your computer, which is exactly what you need here. If your book is split across multiple documents or chapters inside Sudowrite, export each one, or combine them into a single document first so the finished audio flows in reading order.

A few things to leave behind while you export. Sudowrite features like the Story Bible, character notes, brainstorm cards, and any inline planning text are for you as the writer, not for the listener. Only the actual manuscript prose should make the trip. If your export pulls in notes or metadata, you will strip those out in the next step.

Getting clean text ready for narration

Narration reads whatever you give it, so the cleaner the text, the better the audio. Open your exported document and do a quick pass for anything that would sound wrong read aloud. Remove leftover author notes, revision comments, and placeholder markers like TK or bracketed reminders to yourself. Delete stray formatting artifacts, duplicated chapter headings, and any front matter you do not want narrated word for word.

Pay attention to how your chapters are separated. Clear chapter breaks and headings help you organize the render and give listeners a natural place to pause. Check unusual spellings too, especially invented names, places, and fantasy terms, since those are the words most likely to trip up any narrator, human or AI. Making a short list of tricky pronunciations now saves you re-recording later. If you want a deeper checklist for prepping a manuscript, our guide on how to turn your novel into an audiobook covers the text-prep stage in more detail.

Importing into AudioProducer

With your cleaned-up text ready, bring it into AudioProducer. You can paste the manuscript straight into the editor or upload your document, whichever is easier for the length of your book. Once the text is in, you can read through it in the editor and fix anything that slipped past your cleanup pass, since it is easier to catch an awkward line when you are looking at it in the tool you will narrate from.

If you have moved work in from other writing apps before, the flow will feel familiar. It is the same basic path we describe for a Word manuscript or a Google Doc: get the text out of the writing tool, clean it, paste or upload it here. You do not need a special file type from Sudowrite. Plain manuscript text is all AudioProducer needs to start narrating.

Casting voices for your characters

This is where a draft starts to sound like an audiobook. AudioProducer gives you a library of AI voices you can preview and assign. For a straightforward single-narrator book, pick one voice that fits the tone of your story and let it carry the whole thing. For fiction with a strong cast, you can assign different voices to different characters so dialogue is easier to follow, the same way a full-cast recording works.

Preview voices against a real passage from your book rather than a generic sample. A voice that sounds great on a calm paragraph might not fit a tense action scene, so test it where it matters. If you want to narrate in your own voice, voice cloning is available, and it requires consent: use your own voice, or a voice you have explicit permission to use. When you have your casting set, generate the narration and listen back before you commit to the full render.

Exporting the finished MP3

When the narration sounds right, export your audiobook as an MP3 and download the file to your computer. That file is yours to do with as you like. AudioProducer produces the finished audio; it does not distribute or host it for you. So once you have the MP3, you take it and publish it wherever you already publish, whether that is a retailer, a podcast feed, your own website, or a link you send to beta readers.

It is worth doing one final listen on the exported file, ideally with headphones, to catch volume dips or a mispronounced name before your audience hears it. If you catch something, fix the text or reassign the voice and re-export. Because the render is quick, small fixes do not cost you a studio day. If you are moving between several writing tools, the same export-clean-narrate loop works from a Scrivener project too.

That is the entire path: export from Sudowrite, clean the text, import into AudioProducer, cast your voices, and download the MP3. If you want the broader picture of how AI narration fits into your publishing, start with our guide on how to make an audiobook with AI. You can try the whole flow free with 1,200 words and no card, then move up from $39.99 per month when you are ready to narrate a full book.