Terms of Service

1. Who we are

Voicewright Studio ("Voicewright," "we," "us") is operated by [Voicewright entity — LLC name and state of formation to be confirmed]. We produce audiobooks for authors as a directed service and operate the voicewright.studio website, the client production studio, and a storefront for finished audiobooks (together, the "Services").

Questions about these terms: hello@voicewright.studio.

2. Agreeing to these terms

By creating an account or using the Services you agree to these Terms of Service and acknowledge our Privacy Policy. If you engage us to produce an audiobook, the Author Production Agreement and the Refund & Revision Policy also apply and are incorporated into these terms; if they conflict with these terms for a production engagement, the Author Production Agreement controls.

You must be at least 16 to use the Services, and an adult with capacity to contract to engage us for production. If you use the Services for an organization, you represent that you can bind that organization.

We may update these terms. If a change is material we will give notice (for example by email or a notice on the site) before it takes effect. The version and date at the top of this page identify the current terms; continuing to use the Services after a change takes effect means you accept it.

3. What the Services are

Voicewright is a done-for-you audiobook production service. Our producers cast and design voices, direct the performance line by line, and master the finished audio to retail specifications. The narration itself is Human-directed AI narration: a synthesized performance created with voice-synthesis technology under human direction. It is not a recording of a human narrator, and we never present it as one.

The production workflow — quoting, deposit, audition, production, review, approval, delivery — is described in the Author Production Agreement. The storefront, where available, sells finished audiobooks to listeners (section 8).

4. Your account

You sign in with a supported provider (such as Google), an emailed sign-in link, or another method we offer. Keep your sign-in method secure: anything done through your account is treated as done by you. Tell us promptly at the address below if you believe your account has been accessed without your permission.

Provide accurate information, keep your email reachable (project notices are sent there), and do not impersonate anyone. One account belongs to one person; do not share or transfer it.

We may suspend or close accounts that violate these terms, abuse the Services, or create risk for us or others. Where the account has an active production engagement, the Author Production Agreement's cancellation terms apply.

5. Your content

Manuscripts, notes, guidance, and anything else you submit remain yours. We claim no ownership of your content, and nothing in these terms transfers any right in your book to us.

So that we can operate the Services, you grant us a limited, non-exclusive, worldwide license to host, reproduce, process, and transmit your content — including transmitting manuscript text to the voice-synthesis providers we use — solely as needed to provide the Services to you. This license ends when the content is deleted or the engagement ends, except for records we are required to keep. We do not use your manuscript to train machine-learning models.

We may run automated checks on submitted material (for example, screening that helps us and our retail channels apply their content policies). Results are reviewed by our team as part of the production workflow.

6. Acceptable use

When using the Services you agree not to:

• submit content you do not have the rights to, or content that is unlawful, defamatory, or infringing;
• misrepresent the origin of a work or of its narration — including presenting synthesized narration as a human recording;
• interfere with the Services — probing, scraping, overloading, circumventing access controls or signed URLs, or reselling access;
• extract, copy, or redistribute audio you have not purchased or been delivered rights to, or attempt to isolate a synthetic voice to generate new content with it;
• use the Services to develop a competing dataset or service.

7. Payments

Production payments (deposit and balance) and storefront purchases are processed by Stripe on Stripe-hosted payment pages. We never see or store your card number. Prices are in U.S. dollars unless shown otherwise, and applicable taxes may be added where required.

Deposits, balances, revision fees, and refunds for production engagements are governed by the Author Production Agreement and the Refund & Revision Policy.

8. Storefront purchases

The Voicewright storefront may not be open yet; browsing is available before purchasing is. Where purchasing is available:

• A purchase grants you a personal, non-transferable, non-commercial license to stream and listen to that audiobook through your account — it is not a transfer of copyright and does not include redistribution.
• Access is tied to your account and may be withdrawn if the purchase is refunded or the license is abused.
• Every listing is labeled honestly: narration produced by our studio is Human-directed AI narration, and we mark it as such.
• Ratings must reflect your honest experience; we may remove manipulated or abusive ratings.
• Additional consumer purchase terms may be published when the storefront opens and will control for storefront purchases if they differ from this section.

9. Voice technology and disclosure

We are deliberate about disclosure. Audiobooks produced by Voicewright are Human-directed AI narration — a synthesized performance directed by human producers. Finished retail packages carry machine-readable synthesized-voice disclosure flags where a distribution channel requires them, and our own surfaces label narration accordingly. We do not clone an identifiable person's voice without that person's documented consent.

10. Our intellectual property

The Services — the site, software, production tooling, workflow, templates, and the Voicewright brand — are ours and protected by law. These terms grant you no rights in them except the right to use the Services as intended. If you send us feedback, we may use it without restriction or obligation.

11. Third-party services

The Services are built on third-party providers — payment processing (Stripe), sign-in (such as Google or GitHub), email delivery, file storage, hosting, and voice synthesis. Their processing of your data is described in our Privacy Policy. Where you interact with a third party directly (for example, Stripe's checkout page), that interaction is also subject to the third party's terms.

12. Disclaimers

The Services are provided "as is" and "as available" to the fullest extent permitted by law, without warranties of any kind beyond those expressly made in the Author Production Agreement. We do not warrant uninterrupted or error-free operation.

Retail platforms set and change their own policies on synthesized narration. We do not guarantee that any audiobook will be accepted, listed, or kept listed by any retailer or distribution channel.

13. Limitation of liability

To the fullest extent permitted by law, neither party is liable for indirect, incidental, special, consequential, or punitive damages, or lost profits or revenues. Our total liability arising out of the Services is capped at the greater of one hundred U.S. dollars or the amounts you paid us in the twelve months before the event giving rise to the claim. [Counsel to confirm the cap and required carve-outs.]

Some jurisdictions do not allow certain limitations; where a limitation is not allowed, it applies to the fullest extent permitted.

14. Indemnification

You will defend and indemnify Voicewright against third-party claims arising from your content, your use of the Services in violation of these terms, or your violation of law or third-party rights.

15. Termination

You may stop using the Services or ask us to close your account at any time by contacting support. We may suspend or terminate access as described in section 4.

Termination does not affect rights already delivered: audio you own under a completed Author Production Agreement remains yours, and licenses for storefront purchases survive per section 8 unless revoked for the reasons stated there. Sections that by their nature should survive (including your content license for required records, disclaimers, liability limits, indemnification, and disputes) survive.

16. Governing law and disputes

These terms are governed by the laws of [the State of Voicewright's formation — to be confirmed], without regard to conflicts of law. [Venue and dispute process — court vs. arbitration, small-claims carve-out — to be settled with counsel.]

17. Everything else

These terms, the documents they incorporate, and any engagement-specific terms we agree to in writing are the entire agreement between us about the Services. If a provision is found unenforceable, the rest remains in effect. We may assign these terms to a successor of the business (for example, on formation of the operating entity or a reorganization); you may not assign them without our consent. Not enforcing a provision is not a waiver of it.

Notices to us: support@voicewright.studio. Notices to you: the email on your account.