"Is my room quiet enough?"
Sit still for five seconds. booth measures your noise floor the way the submission check will, and tells you plainly — record away, or go hunt the hum first.
A minute, first read to finished file
One take, recorded from the running app. The score is a real transcription of that read, the flagged misread is one booth caught, and the three checks are measurements of the file it produced — no number on screen is drawn. Only the shelf of past projects in the opening shot is staged.
The wall
Someone tells you you've got a voice for this. You look up how to start, and you find microphone comparisons, acoustic foam, gain staging, RMS levels, noise floors, mastering chains and a technical spec sheet. None of it answers the only question you actually have — whether your voice, in your room, is good enough to begin.
booth answers that on the first evening. It listens to your room and tells you. It sets your levels with you. Then it stays beside you while you read, and hands you a finished file at the end. You learn the craft by doing it, not by reading about it first.
No gear list. No course. Just step into the booth.
"How loud should I be?"
Read one line at performance volume. It tells you where your peaks landed and which way to turn the gain. There's a green band on the meter; sit in it.
"Did I read that right?"
booth reads along with you. Words tint green a second behind you as they're confirmed, and anything you misread lands in the margin with a timestamp.
"I fluffed a line."
Re-read the sentence. booth finds where it belongs, cuts at the silences either side and splices it in. You don't re-record the chapter.
"Is this good enough to send?"
booth masters the file and checks it against the actual technical requirements before you upload — so you never learn the answer days later from a rejection email.
"Where does my work go?"
Nowhere. Transcription runs on your machine. No account, no upload, no cloud. An unpublished manuscript stays yours.
Private beta
booth is in beta with a small group of narrators, macOS first. Builds go out once they're signed and notarized, so it opens like any other app — no security warnings to click through. Windows follows.
Tell me what you're working on and I'll send a build. I read every one of these — booth sends me nothing, so what you tell me is all I know.