Here's a warning. Voice acting is a professional career. I worked with lots of voice talent during my time in entertainments. Like all professional actors they

Here's a warning. Voice acting is a professional career. I worked with lots of voice talent during my time in entertainments. Like all professional actors they put a lot of effort into developing their range and characters. I recorded the audio-book of Digital Vegan myself. I am a terrible voice actor but have a good deal of experience with public speaking and radio work. Author-narrated works, especially if technical, have a couple of advantages in that specialist domain knowledge (acronym expansion, pronunciation etc) comes through confidently, and there is some evidence that audiences like author-reads for authenticity. What I discovered when trying to distribute the work shocked me, and that's why I ended up just putting it on my own site (money was never really the main objective). The market is dominated by five or six US entities that aggregate smaller distributors and online stores. Buried in the final stanzas of two of five contracts I reviewed were clauses signing over additional rights to machine learning training for the audio recordings plus e-book transcripts. One was actually on a page alone, breaking with the typography and structure of the rest of the contract and following a blank page, so clearly intended to be "snuck-in". I won't name the companies for legal reasons. But voice actors beware. Read every line of the contracts and if you work for hire for authors it might be worth explicitly excluding permission for machine learning.