About VoxForge

Hi, I'm Elena Ashford

I spent eight years narrating and producing audiobooks before I built VoxForge. I loved the craft — casting the right voice for a character, pacing a chapter, making a narrator feel like a person sitting across from you. What I didn't love was watching indie authors get priced out of it: studio time is expensive, and the software alternatives all charge a subscription that grows with every character and every minute you render.

So I built the studio I wished I'd had.

What VoxForge does

You drop in an .epub or .txt. VoxForge reads the manuscript, detects the narrator and each speaking character, and lets you assign a distinct voice to every role. Hit render and you walk away with a chaptered, multi-voice audiobook you can stream in the browser and export as mp3 or m4b.

It renders in English, Chinese, and Japanese, with warm, human-sounding voices — and you can clone your own voice from a short reference clip and reuse it across any book.

Why buy-once instead of subscribe

Most tools meter you per character. I think indie authors should be able to own their pipeline. That's why VoxForge offers a one-time Lifetime license alongside a monthly Pro plan: render full-length novels back to back, with no per-character fees and no subscription fatigue.

If you're an author, a content creator, or just someone who'd rather listen than read — I built this for you.

— Elena Ashford, Founder & Audiobook Producer