Narrate Your Audiobook in Audacity

You already know how to open Audacity, record a track, and fix the obvious problems. Now you want to turn a finished manuscript into an audiobook that passes ACX's own quality review. This book follows one project end to end: narrating a short book chapter by chapter, from a closet turned into a quiet recording space to a finished set of files ready to upload. You set Audacity's recording channel and project rate for narration, learn Punch and Roll Recording to fix a flub without stopping the take, and capture the few seconds of room tone every finished file needs at its head and tail. You label each section of a long recording and split it into one file per chapter, clean mouth clicks and background noise without hollowing out the voice, and master every file to the loudness, peak and noise-floor numbers ACX states on its own current requirements page, numbers Audacity's own default settings miss on their own. You check each file against those numbers before export, produce mono MP3 files at the bit rate and sample rate ACX requires, and write opening credits, closing credits and a retail sample that match ACX's own minimum content. A closing chapter turns the process into a routine for your next book, with fixes for the mistakes that get files sent back for revision.