Spoken is an AI-driven platform created by Phil Marshall to provide independent authors with an affordable alternative to traditional audiobook production, focusing on transforming manuscripts into expressive, multi-cast audiobooks. Utilizing Hume's emotionally intelligent Text-to-Speech (TTS) API, Spoken addresses the challenges of AI narration by offering character-driven voice matching that delivers nuanced and emotionally rich performances, comparable to professional voice acting. This innovation fills a gap in the audiobook industry, where AI narration often sounded robotic and lacked emotional depth, and professional voice acting was too costly for many indie authors. Since integrating Hume's technology, Spoken has achieved significant adoption, with 63% of authors preferring Hume's voices for their projects and 80% utilizing multi-cast voice options to enhance complex storytelling. Marshall's own debut sci-fi novel, featuring over 100 complex characters, exemplifies the successful application of this technology, highlighting how empathic AI voices are becoming the standard in audiobook production, offering studio-grade quality accessible to all authors regardless of budget constraints.