How to Turn a Solo Journaling RPG Playthrough Into Audio

Solo journaling RPGs leave you with something most tabletop play never does: a finished, written record. A Thousand Year Old Vampire memory log, an Ironsworn solo campaign, a run of Apothecaria or Alone Among the Stars, a session of The Wretched dictated into a recorder and typed up afterward. The journal is the game. And because it already exists as text, it is the easiest kind of play to turn into audio you can actually sit back and listen to.

This guide walks through turning a solo journaling RPG playthrough into narrated audio with AudioProducer.ai: how to prep the journal, how to decide what gets a distinct voice, and what the tool does and does not do. Full disclosure, AudioProducer.ai is our product, and the steps below are exactly how we would do it.

Why a solo journal is a good fit for audio

A solo journaling game produces first-person narration almost by default. You are writing down what your character sees, remembers, fears, and decides. That reads aloud naturally, which is the hard part of adapting most source material. You are not untangling a transcript of four people talking over each other or reconstructing scenes from terse session notes. You have a narrator who is already on the page.

The parts that benefit from a second voice tend to be small and clearly marked: an oracle's answer, a letter found in a ruin, a line of dialogue from an NPC you invented, an entry written in a different hand. Those are the moments where a distinct voice does real work, and a journaling game usually sets them off from the main narration already.

Step 1: Get the journal into clean text

Audio is only as good as the text you feed it, so this step matters more than any setting. Copy your journal entries into a single document and read them back once, out loud if you can. Fix the things that only make sense to you: an abbreviation you used for a faction, a bracketed mechanical note like [rolled a 4, weak hit], a reminder to yourself that was never meant to be read.

Decide what is story and what is bookkeeping. Dice results, move names, and clock ticks are the scaffolding of play, not the narrative. In most cases you will want to cut them or fold them into prose, so the listener hears the raven never returned rather than oracle: unlikely, so the raven never returned. If a mechanical beat carries real tension, keep it as narration, not as a stat line.

Step 2: Split it into chapters

AudioProducer.ai renders one chapter to one MP3, so give it natural breaks. For a journaling game, the seams are usually already there: one memory, one session, one in-world day, one prompt card. A chapter per entry keeps each file short and makes it easy to re-render a single piece if you revise it later. If your campaign ran long, group a handful of short entries into a chapter so you are not managing fifty tiny files.

Step 3: Cast the narrator, then the in-world voices

Start with one voice for the journal itself. This is your protagonist thinking and remembering, and a single consistent narrator carries the whole playthrough. Pick a voice that matches the character's age and register, not your own.

Then cast the exceptions. Assign a distinct voice to each recurring in-world speaker: the oracle, a mentor, a rival, the entity in The Wretched's hold. You can let the tool suggest a mapping with Auto-Assign Characters and adjust it, or set each voice by hand. If you want a particular character to sound like a specific person, voice cloning is available, and we only support cloning a voice with the consent of the person it belongs to. For a solo journal, most entries will stay in the narrator's voice, with the cast voices surfacing only where the text hands off to someone else.

Step 4: Render, listen, revise

Render a chapter and listen to it before you do the rest. Hearing it surfaces things the page hides: a sentence that scans fine silently but stumbles aloud, a character voice that fits the idea but not the scene, a pause that lands wrong. You can lengthen a beat with a custom paragraph pause where the character stops to think, then re-render just that chapter. Build the rest once the first one sounds right, and your casting choices carry across chapters in the same project.

What this does not do

It is worth being clear about scope. AudioProducer.ai turns your written journal into narrated audio. It does not play the game for you, roll dice, interpret oracles, or track moves and clocks, and it is not a virtual tabletop or an engine plugin. It will not generate the story you did not write. It takes the text you already have and gives it voices and sound. You keep the copyright to your playthrough, and nothing is published or distributed on your behalf. What you make is yours to share, or not.

Ready to hear a playthrough out loud? Start a project on AudioProducer.ai and turn your first journal entry into audio.

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