Alright, folks! 

The audiobook for Survivors Don't Die - Episode 1 took us about a month to learn how to do. We tinkered with different ways we could do voice changers with AI. We tapped a number of services and even trained some of our own RVC models with our voices. 

It was a grand learning experience that ended with us being BLOWN AWAY by ElevenLabs. An AI voice platform that is miles above the rest. 

We really enjoy working with this particular tool because it pays the actors that have trained their voices for every generation we do. 

Everything you hear was performed by us. Any dialogue was run through the voice2voice tools at elevenlabs and we got some pretty decent emotion. 

NOW, we've been tinkering with different ways to present the Survivors Don't Die Episode 1 audiobook. ACX/Audible doesn't allow for any AI voice productions on their site (unless you use their really shitty AI voice tool). Which sucks when you're using legitimate tools, but at the same time - I get it. 

Anyway, we're distributing it ourselves. Huzzah! 

We've got the full 1hr Audiobook experience on Spotify and on Youtube. We noticed that the hour-long audio-only video wasn't exactly engaging. 

Until...

Jwall had a brilliant idea to shorten the length of the stories into more bite-sized single-Act episodes for our micro-podcast. Because everyone needs a podcast now, or something, right? 

He even went a step above and edited together the actual book into the visuals for this one. 

We played with some usual podcast banter, lol, we'll get better. We promise. But we're excited to present each piitch and pilot this way in the future. 

Would love to know what you think on this one! 

- Amber & Jwall