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Narrator Check: the audiobook rejection preflight

narratorcheck.com ↗ · Useful Tools · score 84.0
○Open: public page gives enough substance to understand the site $Paid: pricing, booking, ecommerce, subscription, or paid access is visible ADAds: visible ad load or ad-supported content ✦Pretty: notable design, copy, craft, or presentation ◆Pro: polished, finished-feeling, serious, or operationally mature ◇Niche: specific audience, workflow, or unusually focused use case ◉Human: personal, local, community, civic, handmade, or real-person signal !Suspicious: scammy, spammy, trust theater, finance fog, or credibility concern

A browser-based tool that checks an audiobook chapter against ACX audio requirements and exports a corrected 192 kbps CBR MP3.

Why it surfaced

Narrator Check measures RMS, peak, noise floor, sample rate, and MP3 bitrate, then reopens its own encoded output to verify that it passes. The unusually reassuring detail is that the audio stays on the device: there is no upload endpoint, account, or advertising.

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