On the Telling and the Made Voice

The voices in our audiobooks are synthetic. No part of this recording captures a human reading aloud; what you hear was generated by text-to-speech and shaped to a single register.

The tool that produced it, The Telling, was built by the author himself, Todd R. G. Hill, rather than commissioned from a studio. The book and the means of its speaking come from the same hand.

The speech was synthesized using Gemini TTS, voiced through “Hazel Hill,” a proprietary voice crafted by the author for this work. The voice is fully synthetic: it is not a recording of a performer and does not reproduce the voice of any living person or hired talent. No human performer is recorded for our audiobooks.

A made voice is not a lesser one, only an honest one. We tell you it is made so that you may listen without being deceived, and trust the telling for what it is.