Audition Check · for narrators
Before you audition: is it a real book on ACX?
You scroll the ACX title board, find something in your wheelhouse, prep an audition, send it off — and never hear back, because the listing was never a real book. In one morning of browsing the board I turned up multiple listings that fit the AI-laundering harvest pattern: machine-spun "titles" posted to farm narrator audio. Paste the listing URL, upload a screenshot of the listing you're already looking at, and audition check runs a 7-signal research pass — then emails you whether it looks like a real book or a suspected harvest, before you waste a read on it.
Check an ACX listing
Paste the listing URL, drop in a screenshot of the listing, and tell us where to send the report. We run the check and email you back — usually within about an hour.
What we check
Seven signals, in plain English.
Each signal comes back as Pass, Flag, or Unknown, with a one-line evidence note. No single flag condemns a listing — the verdict weighs them together. We report likelihood, not certainty.
Author has an Amazon book page
ACX requires the title to exist as a book on Amazon first. No Amazon page is the single strongest tell — a hard flag.
Author has a Goodreads entry
Real authors and real books tend to leave a Goodreads trail. A complete absence is worth noting.
Verifiable web presence
A website, LinkedIn, socials, a podcast, interviews — any independent sign a human author exists behind the name.
Internally consistent length
The listing's stated length and word count should add up. A book that claims 253 words at zero hours doesn't.
Not a fresh post with everything failing
A listing posted in the last 24 hours with every other signal failing fits the spray-and-harvest pattern.
Cover art without AI-generation tells
Covers can carry the visual fingerprints of image generators — wrong finger counts, melting text, impossible architecture, the generic "AI dystopia" look. We read the cover from your screenshot and flag the likelihood.
Title and subtitle read like a human wrote them
A title and subtitle that read like a prompt-generator pairing — stuffed with keywords, oddly generic — is a soft flag.
Honest boundaries
What this does — and what it doesn't.
This is a research aid, not a verdict you should outsource your judgment to. It reports likelihood from public signals. It can't read minds, and it can't confirm intent.
Audition check does
- Research public, open-web signals about the listing and its author
- Weigh seven signals into a likelihood verdict
- Tell you when a listing matches the AI-laundering pattern
- Hand you a pre-filled ACX report paragraph when the verdict is suspected harvest
Audition check does NOT
- Confirm a listing is fake — we say "suspected," never "confirmed"
- Guarantee a clean listing will respond to your audition
- Read, store, or judge your audition or recorded work
- Contact the author, ACX, or anyone on your behalf
What you'll get back
Three verdicts. Here's what each looks like.
Your report leads with one of these three labels, a qualitative confidence level, the seven signals scored, and a few plain sentences you can read in twenty seconds.
Real
Confidence: high
This listing matches the profile of a real book. Audition with confidence.
Watch
Confidence: moderate
Some signals are missing. Audition if it fits your schedule, but don't expect a response.
Suspected harvest
Confidence: high
This listing matches the AI-laundering pattern. We recommend skipping and reporting to ACX.
The promise
No catch. Plainly stated.
Free, no catch, no follow-up sales pitch.
You paste a listing, you get a report. There's no card on file, no upsell call, no drip campaign. The one thing we ask, if you opt in, is permission to send a short monthly digest of the patterns we're seeing across ACX — and you can unsubscribe from that in one click.
This is the free front door to Booth Ready Productions. If audition check saves you a wasted read, that's the whole point. Whether you ever look at booth ready, script ready, or proof ready is entirely up to you.
How the research is done. Audition check is AI-assisted. We use OpenAI's vision model to read your screenshot — the image is sent only to parse the listing details, is not stored beyond your report's lifetime, and is never used for AI training. From there we gather public web signals about the listing and its author and draft the report, with the seven-signal logic running on open, public data. Because of that, the result is a likelihood, not a detection, and a flagged listing is suspected, not confirmed. Use it as one input to your own judgment — and when in doubt, trust your read of the listing.
Common questions
What narrators ask first.
What happens after I submit?
Three steps: you paste the ACX listing URL, you upload a screenshot of the listing, and you get your report by email — usually within about five minutes, and at most within the hour. We send an instant confirmation the moment you submit so you know it landed.
Why do you need a screenshot?
ACX listing pages only show their details to logged-in members, so we can't read them from the URL alone. Since you're already signed in and looking at the listing, a screenshot is the simplest way to hand us what you see. We send it to OpenAI's vision model to parse the listing details, then delete it once your report is delivered — it's never used for AI training.
What's an AI-laundering harvest?
It's a listing posted not to make a real audiobook, but to collect narrator audition audio — usually for a machine-spun or thin "book" that was never meant to be produced. You audition, you never hear back, and your recorded voice is now sitting in someone's dataset. Audition check looks for the public fingerprints these listings tend to leave.
Is it really free?
Yes. Free, no catch, no follow-up sales pitch. The only optional ask is the monthly digest checkbox, which you can ignore or unsubscribe from at any time.
How accurate is it?
It reports likelihood, not certainty. The seven signals are strong indicators, but a real author can have a thin web presence and a careful scammer can fake some signals. Treat a "suspected harvest" verdict as a reason to look harder, not as proof. We say "suspected," never "confirmed."
What do you do with my email, the listing URL, and my screenshot?
We use your email to send the report, plus the monthly digest if you opted in. We log the listing URL so we can run the check and track patterns across listings. Your screenshot is sent to OpenAI's vision model to read the listing details, then deleted from our system once your report is delivered — it is never used for AI training. We never look at your audition, your recordings, or any copyrighted work — only the listing you show us.
What if the verdict is "suspected harvest"?
Your report will include a pre-filled paragraph you can paste straight into ACX's "Report This Title" form, plus a direct link to that page. Reporting helps ACX clean up the board for every narrator.
How long does it take?
You'll get an immediate confirmation email, and the full report typically lands in your inbox within about five minutes — at most within the hour.
Ready when you are
Stop reading for harvests. Check first.
Paste the URL, upload the screenshot, and get a report back within the hour. About a minute of your time. Free, no catch, no follow-up sales pitch.
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