Personalised audiobooks as audible snapshots
As the month of January stretches out before us, it does what it always does: asks us to become entirely new people overnight. It is a time for battling with…
Personalised Audiobooks Are Gifts That Keep on Giving
2025 feels like it has been a year of great turbulence and uncertainty. However our years have gone, we once again find ourselves at a traditional season of gift giving.…
Stories as belonging: How hearing yourself can shift cultural ownership
Stories shape our culture and culture shapes our stories. When we’re asked to describe who we are and where we’re from, we might start with our sense of place, the…
What the year of reading will mean for personalised audio
2026 has been designated as the Year of Reading in the UK. This government initiative has been designed to address the decline in reading by children and young people. The…
Narrative Identity in Personalised Audio
The ways in which we consume stories, create narratives, and even build our own internalised personal identities have changed over time. These processes can be characterised as continuously evolving, shaped…
Preserving the Voices of Loved Ones and the Story of Dudley Editions
Preserving the Voices of Loved Ones: Why Dudley Editions Exists Before Dudley Editions existed as an app you can easily download and use from your smartphone, it was an idea…
From bedtime to all the time: Personalised audiobooks can help children feel secure
It’s a ritual that’s been used to encourage children to go to sleep for decades: the bedtime story. Many of us have fond memories of our parents, and even grandparents,…
The value of hearing things read aloud
The Benefits of Reading Aloud and How Personalised Audiobooks Take Them Further Our earliest memories of reading likely take us back to a classroom. A patient teacher sits nearby. We…
Embracing Connection Through Personalised Storytelling
Some of the most important things in life are also the most fragile: a voice we love, a person who moves away, a tradition that quietly disappears. Impermanence is woven…