Starting in May 2025, Audible began offering traditional book publishers a fully managed service to turn manuscripts into AI-narrated audiobooks, using more than 100 synthetic voices across English, Spanish, French, and Italian. Publishers can either hand the entire process to Audible or use the same tools to manage production themselves.

This program is Audible's most significant expansion of AI into audiobook production, aimed at the large proportion of published books that have never existed in audio format. Audible CEO Bob Carrigan described AI as a "momentous opportunity to expand the availability of audiobooks." The technology is described as drawing on Amazon's AI capabilities, though specific underlying models are not disclosed. Two production pathways are available: one fully managed by Audible (from manuscript to published audiobook), and one in which publishers direct their own production using the same AI tools. The announcement was met with criticism from professional narrators and industry observers; narrator Stephen Briggs, known for narrating Terry Pratchett's books, publicly raised concerns about the direction of AI replacing human creative work.