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Every character,
their own voice.
The great public-domain novels, performed by a full cast. Heroes, villains, gossips and ghosts each speak in their own voice, and a narrator carries you through everything in between.
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Here’s the first chapter of Pride and Prejudice, free for anyone: just press play and listen to the whole cast at work. Sign in free with your email and the first chapter of every book on the shelf is yours.
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1Pride and Prejudice
A cast, not a single reader
Hear who is speaking without having to work it out.
Most audiobooks give one reader every part. In a Synthlit recording every line of dialogue goes to the character who says it, so a crowded room sounds crowded and an argument sounds like two people.
- i.Every line, the right voiceEach line of dialogue is attributed to its speaker, and lines we're unsure of are checked by hand rather than guessed.
- ii.One voice per character, start to finishA book's cast is fixed before it is recorded, so a character in the last chapter sounds just as they did in the first.
- iii.A narrator to hold it togetherEverything between the quotation marks belongs to the cast; everything around them to the narrator.
A few voices from the shelf
and a narrator for each book
- Ebenezer ScroogeA Christmas Carol
- Victor FrankensteinFrankenstein
- Anne ShirleyAnne of Green Gables
- Emma WoodhouseEmma
- The Time TravellerThe Time Machine
- Anne ElliotPersuasion
Every speaking part in every book, cast before a word is recorded.
The library
Take a book down from the shelf.
Always being refined
A recording that keeps getting better.
A Synthlit book isn’t finished the day it’s published. We keep listening, and when a line could be delivered better, a voice could suit its character more closely, or a word comes out wrong, we record it again. The better take replaces the old one, and the books in your library improve without you lifting a finger.
- Lines re-recorded whenever a better performance is possible
- Voices refined as our casting gets better
- Nothing to update: you always hear the latest take
How listening works
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Pride and Prejudice, free
Chapter One of Pride and Prejudice plays for anyone. No account, no card.
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See membership“I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading!”Caroline Bingley, Pride and Prejudice, Chapter XI