Jacob Szymanski

But it's, what a cool job, sincerely.

Now, okay, you've prepared for the book, you've casted your narrator or narrators if it's a multicast narration.

Once that's done, you've got it scheduled, you're recording, everything's going well.

Are you still involved in that process during the recording process and afterwards?

So it sounds like you are the person who's coordinating the process from start to finish and looping in all the different people who are involved, which you mentioned directors, engineers, and then you communicating with the authors and the authors, editors.

There's audiobook editors as well, I'm assuming.

Am I missing anyone?

Because it's still quite the team, but you have to coordinate everyone and make sure everyone's got the time and the resources to do what they need to do.

Classic producer stuff.

Classic producer stuff.

Absolutely.

It's like a TV or movie producer.

I have to ask you one more question.

AI narration.

Completely excluding the impact on the industry.

What does it sound like to you?

Like as someone who has a keen ear for audiobooks, what is AI narration in 2026?

Like the best models you've heard?

A breathing thing?

I've heard sort of AI breaths, but it doesn't sound like a breath.