How to Produce an Audiobook for Under $200 (The 2026 Guide)

From manuscript to published audiobook without a recording studio or a professional narrator

The Real Cost Nobody Talks About

Professional audiobook narration costs between $2,000 and $15,000 . ACX pay-for-production rates run $150 to $400 per finished hour. A standard 60,000-word nonfiction book produces 6 to 8 finished hours of audio. That math kills most independent publishing projects before they start.

The assumption baked into traditional audiobook production was simple: you either had a publisher with a budget, or you recorded yourself in a makeshift home studio and hoped the audio quality did not drive listeners away by chapter two. Neither path was realistic for the majority of independent authors, online tutors, ebook writers, or educators who needed professional output on a self-publishing budget.

That assumption is now obsolete. AI voice technology in 2026 has matured past the "demo quality" stage. The question is no longer whether AI narration is good enough for commercial distribution. It is which workflow, which voices, and which platforms make the most sense for your specific book and audience.

This guide answers all of that, with real numbers, real platform details, and a production workflow you can execute for under $200.

TL;DR

• A full-length audiobook can be produced and distributed for under $200 using AI narration, with no studio, no hired narrator, and no technical background required.
• The $200 budget covers AI narration production, audiobook cover design, and all distribution costs since ACX, Findaway Voices, Google Play Books, and Kobo charge no upfront distribution fee.
• AI voices in 2026 are context-aware and emotionally expressive; genre and tone matching is now a prompt instruction, not a post-production editing job.
• Narration Box's dedicated audiobook product converts EPUB, PDF, and Word files into full audiobooks with automatic emotion detection, inline expression control, and multilingual narration across 140 plus languages.
• Authors who distribute wide across multiple platforms consistently report stronger long-term revenue than those locked into a single platform's exclusivity terms.

Why Audiobooks Are Worth Producing Right Now

The global audiobook market was valued at approximately $7.1 billion in 2023 and is projected to exceed $35 billion by 2030, growing at a compound annual growth rate above 24%. In the United States, roughly 45% of people aged 18 to 44 listened to an audiobook in 2024. Audiobook consumption among 25 to 40 year olds grew faster than ebook consumption for the third consecutive year on both Audible and Spotify.

For independent authors and educators, this is not an abstract trend. It means that a listener base for your content already exists in audio format, and it is actively growing across markets you may not currently be reaching with ebooks or print. Smartphone penetration in South Asia, Southeast Asia, and Sub-Saharan Africa has created a new generation of audio-first readers who consume books during commutes, workouts, and fragmented work breaks, not at a desk with a physical book.

If your manuscript already exists, you are leaving a real and measurable audience unreached by not having an audio version.

The Core Problem: Why Audiobook Production Stops Most Authors

Before getting into the how, it is worth being specific about what actually stops projects at each stage. These are not vague fears. They are concrete friction points with real financial and logistical weight.

Narration cost is the primary barrier. A freelance narrator on ACX at $250 per finished hour costs $1,500 to $2,000 for a standard nonfiction book. Add studio time, revision rounds for technical terminology, and the cost of a second take if the narrator misreads your character names, and the final invoice often exceeds $5,000. For an author with no guarantee of recouping that investment, the project stalls.

Early AI voice quality trained a generation of authors to distrust the technology. Robotic pacing, mispronounced proper nouns , flat emotional delivery, and zero ability to distinguish dialogue from exposition made early TTS tools unsuitable for commercial release. That era is over, but the skepticism it created persists. Authors who dismissed AI narration in 2021 or 2022 are working from outdated information.

Distribution complexity is the second-biggest barrier after cost. ACX, Findaway Voices, Apple Books, Google Play, and Kobo each have different file specifications, metadata requirements, royalty structures, and exclusivity terms. Authors without publishing experience frequently upload incorrectly, get rejected, lose weeks in the resubmission queue, and sometimes abandon the project entirely.

Genre-platform mismatch is subtle but costly. Not every platform serves every genre equally. A children's educational audiobook has a very different ideal distribution path than a business strategy book or a romance novel. Choosing the wrong platform for your genre caps your audience from the first day of publication.

Listener retention is a production problem before it is a marketing problem. An audiobook with flat narration, no pacing variation, and zero emotional texture loses listeners by chapter two. On platforms like Audible and Scribd, completion rates directly affect algorithmic recommendation placement. A book that listeners abandon early is a book the platform stops surfacing to new listeners.

How to Produce an Audiobook for Under $200: The Full Breakdown

This is the core of what you came here for. Every number below is based on real platform rates and current tool pricing as of 2026.

What the $200 Budget Covers

A standard nonfiction book of 60,000 words produces approximately 6 to 7 finished hours of audio. Here is where the budget goes:

AI narration production is the largest line item and the one where the cost difference between AI and human narration is most dramatic. A minimum-rate human narrator on ACX at $100 per finished hour costs $600 to $700 for the same manuscript. A mid-range narrator at $250 per hour costs $1,500 to $1,750. AI narration at Narration Box's current pricing produces the same finished hours at a fraction of that cost, well within the $200 ceiling for a full-length book.

Audiobook cover design is a required separate asset from your ebook or print cover on most platforms. ACX requires a square image at minimum 2400 x 2400 pixels in JPG or PNG format. Tools like Canva with a pro subscription, or a single commission from a freelance designer on Fiverr, cost between $15 and $50. This is a non-negotiable production cost because platform algorithms and browse pages are visual, and a low-quality cover suppresses click-through rates regardless of how good the content is.

Distribution fees are zero across ACX, Findaway Voices, Google Play Books, and Kobo Writing Life. All four platforms operate on revenue-share models with no upfront submission costs. Apple Books direct distribution is also free to set up. Your distribution costs are entirely covered within the budget by the fact that the major platforms charge nothing to upload.

Metadata preparation (book description, keywords, categories) takes time but no direct cost. This is covered below in the workflow section.

The total lands under $200 for a full-length audiobook ready for multi-platform distribution. For shorter books, courses, or educational content under 40,000 words, the production cost drops further.

The Production Workflow Step by Step

Prepare your manuscript before uploading. This step is often skipped and it costs authors time later. Before importing your file into any AI narration tool, do the following: remove content that should not be narrated (page numbers, header and footer text, table of contents labels, copyright page boilerplate). Standardize the spelling of character names, brand names, and technical terms so the voice model encounters them consistently throughout the text. Mark up dialogue sections and high-emotion moments where you want expression-level control. A clean manuscript produces cleaner audio on the first pass and reduces the amount of section-level regeneration you need to do in review.

Upload your manuscript to Narration Box's audiobook product. Narration Box accepts EPUB, PDF, DOC, and DOCX formats directly. You do not need to convert your file before uploading. Select your Enbee V2 voice based on genre fit (covered in detail in the next section). The system automatically begins narrating the full text with emotional context detection active. The AI reads the semantic content of the text, not just the words, and adjusts pacing, tone, and emotional register accordingly without manual configuration.

Set your style prompt before generation. The style prompt field accepts plain-language instructions that shape the voice's overall delivery for the entire narration. Examples of effective style prompts:

For a business book: "Speak with calm authority, measured pacing, and professional clarity. No dramatic flourishes."

For a thriller: "Narrate with controlled tension. Vary pacing between calm exposition and high-stakes scenes. Keep dialogue delivery crisp and distinct."

For a personal development book: "Warm, direct, and encouraging. Speak as if addressing the reader personally. No lecture tone."

For children's educational content: "Clear enunciation, gentle energy, and expressive delivery. Pace slowly enough for young listeners to follow."

The voice follows these instructions at the model level, meaning the delivery is consistent across the entire manuscript without requiring section-by-section adjustment.

Use inline expression tags for granular control. For specific moments in your text where you want precise emotional delivery, Narration Box supports expression cues inserted directly in the manuscript text using square bracket syntax. The voice executes the tag exactly where it appears. Examples:

"She read the letter twice. [whispering] He was never coming back. [long pause] She folded it carefully and put it in her drawer."

"[excited] This is the framework that changed everything for me. Pay attention to this part."

"He walked into the room and saw it. [shocked] The safe was empty."

Available expression tags include whispering, excited, laughing, shouting, hesitant, sad, tense, and others. These give authors the same level of emotional direction a recording director would give a human narrator, applied directly in the text without post-production.

Review chapter by chapter. After the initial generation, listen to each chapter sequentially. You are listening for three things: mispronounced proper nouns or technical terms (flag these and use the pronunciation correction tool or re-prompt for that segment), sections where the emotional register feels off relative to the content (add inline tags or adjust the style prompt for that chapter and regenerate), and pacing issues in dense information sections (prompt "slow pacing for this section" or break long paragraphs into shorter sentences before regenerating).

Do not try to review the entire audiobook in one session. Chapter-by-chapter review produces better catch rates and keeps the revision scope manageable.

Export your audio files. Export chapter-level MP3 files. For ACX submission, your files must meet the following specifications: 192 kbps or higher bit rate, consistent RMS levels between minus 23 dB and minus 18 dB, noise floor at or below minus 60 dB, and no more than 1 second of leading silence per file. Narration Box outputs ACX-compliant files by default, so if you are exporting for Audible distribution, you do not need to run your files through a separate audio editor to meet these specs.

For other platforms, Findaway Voices, Apple Books, and Google Play Books all accept the same MP3 format with equivalent or looser technical requirements than ACX.

Prepare your audiobook metadata. This is where many authors underinvest and where discoverability is won or lost. Your metadata package should include: a title and subtitle exactly as they appear on your ebook or print edition (inconsistency across formats creates search confusion), an author name formatted identically across all platforms, a narrator credit (you can list the AI voice name, list yourself as producer, or list both), a book description of 150 to 400 words optimized for the search terms your target listeners actually use, two to three category selections that reflect where your book will find its most engaged audience, and a retail price that reflects comparable titles in your genre on each platform.

Upload and distribute. Submit to your chosen platforms. For ACX, the review process takes 10 to 14 business days. For Findaway Voices, ingestion to partner platforms takes 4 to 6 weeks for first-time uploads. Google Play Books and Apple Books direct uploads typically go live within 3 to 5 business days.

The Total Timeline

From clean manuscript to live audiobook on Audible: approximately 3 to 4 weeks, accounting for ACX's review window. From clean manuscript to live on all wide distribution platforms via Findaway: approximately 6 to 7 weeks for full platform coverage. The actual production work, generation, review, and export, takes most authors 2 to 4 days for a standard-length book.

Narration Box Audiobook Product: How It Works

Narration Box's dedicated audiobook creation product is the tool this entire workflow is built around. Here is a direct explanation of what it does, without overstatement.

What you upload: EPUB, PDF, DOC, or DOCX. You bring the manuscript in whatever format it already exists in. No conversion required.

Automatic emotion detection: The AI voice model reads the semantic content of your text and adjusts emotional delivery accordingly. A tense scene is narrated with tension. Dialogue is paced differently from exposition. Instructional content carries authority. This happens automatically on the first generation pass, without the author needing to tag every emotional beat manually.

Language and accent intelligence: Every Enbee V2 voice is fully multilingual. Upload a French manuscript and the voice narrates in French with a natural French accent. Upload a German manuscript, select an Enbee V2 voice, and prompt "narrate in a Canadian accent" and the voice narrates the German text with a Canadian accent layered onto the delivery. This works across 140 plus languages and dialects including English, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Arabic, Hindi, Mandarin, Japanese, German, and dozens of regional and hyper-local variants.

Style prompting: Plain-language instructions set the overall delivery tone for the narration. No SSML markup, no audio engineering knowledge required.

Inline expression tags: Square bracket cues in the manuscript text trigger specific emotional delivery at the word level. Authors with fiction manuscripts or emotionally complex nonfiction gain granular directorial control without post-production.

ACX-compliant export: Output files meet ACX technical specifications by default.

This product removes every step of the traditional audiobook production process that required either a hired professional or specialized technical knowledge. The author brings the manuscript. The platform produces the audiobook.

The Enbee V2 Voices: Matching Voice to Genre

Narration Box's Enbee V2 model is the voice engine behind the audiobook product. These are the six primary voices and where each one performs at its best.

Ivy carries warmth and clarity. Strong fit for memoir, personal development, and narrative nonfiction where the listener needs to feel addressed directly rather than lectured at.

Harvey is grounded and measured. Strong fit for business, finance, and technical nonfiction where authority and precision drive listener confidence.

Harlan has range and texture across emotional registers. Strong fit for fiction, particularly thriller, mystery, and genre fiction where character differentiation and scene-level pacing variation matter.

Lorraine is precise and composed. Strong fit for educational content, academic texts, and instructional material where clarity drives comprehension and monotony is the primary risk.

Etta brings energy and expressiveness. Strong fit for children's content, motivational material, and any content where listener engagement requires the narrator to project genuine enthusiasm.

Lenora handles emotional complexity without overcooking it. Strong fit for memoir, literary fiction, and narrative nonfiction where the writing has tonal range and the narration needs to match it.

All six voices support style prompting, inline expression tags, and full multilingual narration. All six automatically detect language from the uploaded text and narrate in the corresponding accent without manual configuration.

The Enbee V1 voices, including Ariana, Steffan, and Amanda, are also context-aware and well-suited for content where the required emotional range is moderate: how-to books, structured nonfiction, and educational summaries. Ariana in particular has built a strong reputation among Narration Box users for its intuitive reading of content tone and pacing across a wide range of subject matter.

Choosing the Right Publishing Platform for Your Genre

Platform choice is where most authors make decisions they regret. This is not just about where you upload. It is about royalty structure, exclusivity terms, audience demographics, geographic reach, and how each platform's algorithm surfaces new titles to listeners.

ACX and Audible

ACX distributes to Audible, Amazon, and Apple Books simultaneously. Exclusive distribution pays 40% royalties. Non-exclusive pays 25%. Exclusivity locks you in for 7 years.

Audible holds approximately 63% of the US audiobook market. If your primary audience is North American and your genre is mainstream fiction, nonfiction, business, or self-help, Audible's listener base is the largest single pool you can access. The discovery algorithm rewards reviews, completion rates, and Whispersync sales where readers also own the Kindle edition.

ACX requires MP3 files at 192 kbps or higher, RMS levels between minus 23 dB and minus 18 dB, noise floor at or below minus 60 dB, and specific silence requirements per section. Narration Box exports ACX-compliant files by default.

The downside of exclusivity: you cannot distribute to Spotify, Kobo, Scribd, Barnes and Noble, or Storytel for seven years. For authors building a long-term catalog, this is a trade-off that deserves careful consideration before committing.

Findaway Voices

Findaway Voices, now owned by Spotify, distributes to over 40 platforms from a single upload, including Spotify, Kobo, Scribd, Bibliotheca, OverDrive (public libraries), Hoopla, and Barnes and Noble. Findaway takes 20% of net sales with no upfront fee.

For authors who want maximum reach without exclusivity, Findaway is the most efficient single-upload solution available. Spotify's ownership signals continued investment in audiobook infrastructure, and the platform's subscriber base skews younger (18 to 35) with strong representation in popular nonfiction, self-help, and genre fiction.

Apple Books

Apple Books accepts direct audiobook submissions through Apple Books for Authors and pays 70% royalties with no exclusivity requirement. The platform has a strong international audience in Western Europe, Australia, Canada, and Japan. For authors with established audiences in English-speaking markets outside the US, Apple Books direct distribution is consistently underutilized.

Google Play Books

Google Play Books pays 52% royalties and distributes globally through Google's infrastructure. The platform's strength is reach in India, Southeast Asia, and Latin America, markets where Google's ecosystem dominates mobile usage. If your book addresses topics with high search volume in these markets, personal finance, competitive exams, self-improvement, entrepreneurship, Google Play Books deserves serious consideration as a primary distribution channel.

Kobo Writing Life

Kobo and Rakuten operate the dominant non-Amazon audiobook platform in Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and the Netherlands. Royalties are 45% for books priced above $2.99, with no exclusivity requirement. For authors targeting Commonwealth markets, Kobo is the most consistently undervalued platform in the independent publishing ecosystem.

Wide vs. Exclusive: The Core Strategic Decision

Exclusive with ACX means 40% royalties, access to the largest single audiobook audience, and a 7-year lock-in. This makes strong financial sense if your genre has its highest listener concentration on Audible and your marketing plan is Amazon-centric.

Wide distribution means 25% from ACX if you still use it, plus independent royalties from every other platform. The total revenue picture is typically better over a 3 to 5 year horizon because each platform builds its own audience independently. Library distribution through OverDrive and Bibliotheca generates steady recurring income that does not correlate with Amazon's algorithm changes.

For new authors without an established Audible audience, wide distribution is the smarter starting position. Build the catalog, build the audience, and revisit exclusivity decisions when you have real data on where your listeners are.

Genre-Specific Narration Requirements

Matching your AI voice and style prompting to your genre is not optional if completion rates and listener satisfaction matter to you.

Thriller and mystery require tension, pacing variation, and the ability to shift between calm exposition and high-stakes delivery. Harlan with inline expression tags handles scene-level emotional shifts well. Slow, deliberate pacing in high-tension moments consistently outperforms fast narration for listener engagement in this genre.

Self-help and personal development require warmth, conviction, and direct address. Ivy is the natural fit. Prompt for "calm authority and personal warmth." Avoid dramatic delivery; listeners in this category want to feel guided and encouraged, not performed at.

Business and finance require precision, credibility, and measured authority. Harvey handles this without needing extensive prompting. Keep style instructions focused on "clear, professional, and direct delivery" and avoid expressive flourishes that reduce perceived authority.

Children's educational content requires energy, clear enunciation, and expressiveness. Etta handles this well. Use excited and playful inline tags deliberately, not constantly. Overuse flattens the effect and trains young listeners to tune out the variation.

Academic and technical nonfiction requires consistent pacing, precise pronunciation, and a tone that does not condescend. Lorraine is the strong fit here. For books with dense technical vocabulary, the pronunciation review step in your chapter-by-chapter pass is critical.

Memoir and narrative nonfiction benefit from intimacy and personal warmth. Lenora's tonal range handles the emotional texture memoir requires without overcooking the delivery into something that feels performed rather than genuine.

Where Your Audiobook Audience Actually Is Online

Knowing your distribution platform is one thing. Knowing where potential listeners spend time before they arrive at a platform is a separate and equally important question for your marketing.

Reddit communities including r/audiobookclub, r/audible, and r/audiobooks actively discuss new releases and make genre recommendations. These communities respond well to genuine author participation and reject cold promotional posting without value.

Facebook Groups organized around specific genres (military history, cozy mystery, Christian fiction, business books) are high-intent communities where genre-specific promotion, framed as conversation rather than advertisement, generates meaningful click-through.

Goodreads remains the highest-leverage platform for organic audiobook discovery. A Goodreads listing with strong ratings drives consistent referral traffic to paid platforms. Set up your audiobook as a separate edition entry from day one of publication.

BookTok on TikTok has measurable influence on audiobook discovery in fiction, particularly romance and fantasy. Short-form video where authors discuss their narration production process or read a passage from their own audiobook generates genuine organic reach in ways that paid ads in the same category rarely match.

Podcast appearances in your topic niche remain one of the highest-conversion marketing channels for audiobooks. A 20-minute interview on a podcast with 5,000 engaged listeners in your target genre often outperforms a paid campaign at the same cost.

For paid advertising, Amazon Advertising directly within the Audible ecosystem is the highest-intent placement for authors already distributed there. Facebook and Instagram ads for audiobooks convert best with a specific offer: a free first chapter, a discounted series starter, or a limited-time price reduction rather than a direct paid-purchase call to action.

Metrics That Matter After Launch

Completion rate is the single most important quality signal post-launch. Audible, Storytel, and Scribd all track this and use it in their recommendation algorithms. A completion rate below 65% in the first 30 days usually signals a problem in the first two chapters, either with narration quality, pacing, or content structure. Fix it before reviews accumulate.

Average listening speed tells you something about engagement quality. Listeners at 1.0x or below are highly engaged. Listeners consistently at 2.0x or above are extracting information rather than experiencing the narration. In fiction, high average playback speeds are a warning sign. In self-help and business, they are often neutral.

Return rate on Audible above 8% warrants investigation. The most common causes are book descriptions that do not accurately reflect content, narration quality that does not meet listener expectations, or audio files with technical artifacts that passed review but frustrated listeners.

Revenue per platform should be tracked monthly after month three. Most authors see a 70/30 or 80/20 split between their primary platform and wide distribution in year one. Over time, wide distribution normalizes toward a more even split as non-Audible platforms build their subscriber bases and catalog depth.

Frequently Asked Questions

Which is the best platform to add AI voice to a book?

Narration Box is the strongest option for authors who want emotionally expressive AI narration with full control over tone, accent, language, and inline expression. Its dedicated audiobook product handles the full workflow from manuscript upload to ACX-compliant audio export, with automatic emotion detection, style prompting, and multilingual narration across 140 plus languages.

What's the best AI to turn textbooks and scientific papers into audio?

Narration Box handles technical and academic content well because Enbee V2 voices can be prompted to deliver material with the precise, authoritative tone that academic content requires. For scientific papers with dense terminology, the chapter-by-chapter review step is important: listen specifically to how the voice handles specialized terms and use style prompting to adjust pacing for information-heavy sections.

Where to publish an audiobook?

For North American mainstream audiences, ACX/Audible with Apple Books is the primary path. For international reach without exclusivity, Findaway Voices distributes to over 40 platforms in a single upload. For emerging markets, Google Play Books. For Commonwealth markets, Kobo Writing Life.

Can I use AI to narrate my book?

Yes. AI narration at the quality level of Enbee V2 voices is suitable for commercial audiobook distribution including ACX submission. The voices automatically detect emotional context, respond to style prompts, and support inline expression tags that give authors granular delivery control at the word level.

How to make an audiobook using AI?

Upload your manuscript (EPUB, PDF, or Word) to Narration Box's audiobook product. Select your Enbee V2 voice. The system narrates the full text with automatic emotion detection. Review chapter by chapter, use style prompts or inline tags to refine specific sections, and export ACX-compliant audio files ready for distribution.

How to use AI voice for books?

Import your text into Narration Box. Select an Enbee V2 voice. Use the style prompt field to set tone, accent, and pacing. Add inline expression tags in square brackets where you want specific emotional delivery at the word level. Export and distribute.

Where should I publish my audiobook online?

ACX for Audible, Findaway Voices for wide distribution across 40 plus platforms, Google Play Books for emerging markets, Kobo Writing Life for Commonwealth markets, and Apple Books direct for international English-language audiences. Wide distribution preserves optionality and builds a multi-platform audience from the start.

Best AI tools for making educational videos, tutorials, and storytelling content?

For voice, Narration Box covers educational, tutorial, and storytelling narration. For video production, Synthesia and Descript complement a Narration Box voiceover workflow. For royalty-free background music in tutorials, Mubert, AIVA, and Beatoven.ai are strong options.

Best AI voice generator for eLearning narration?

Narration Box with Enbee V2 voices, specifically Lorraine for instructional content and Etta for learner-facing modules. Style prompting lets instructional designers specify tone, pacing, and energy level for each module without recording sessions.

How can I convert text to voice with AI for free?

Narration Box offers a free tier to get started. For authors who want to test how their manuscript sounds before committing to full production, generating a sample chapter with an Enbee V2 voice lets you evaluate quality and voice fit before purchasing.

How to add AI voices to educational videos on YouTube?

Export your AI voiceover from Narration Box as an MP3. Import it into your video editor (Adobe Premiere, DaVinci Resolve, or CapCut) as your primary audio track. Sync to your visual timeline. For YouTube educational content specifically, voiceover pacing between 150 and 170 words per minute tends to perform best for viewer retention.

Any tips on ads and where to reach readers?

Amazon Advertising within the Audible ecosystem is the highest-intent placement for audiobook ads. Facebook and Instagram convert best with a specific offer rather than a direct purchase CTA. BookBub Featured Deals generate the highest single-day download spikes for discounted titles. Podcast guest appearances remain the highest-conversion low-cost channel for nonfiction authors.

Which is the best platform to self-publish a book?

For print and ebook, KDP is the most accessible entry point. For audiobooks, the choice between ACX exclusivity and wide distribution via Findaway Voices depends on your genre and your audience geography. Wide distribution is the smarter starting position for authors without an established Audible audience.

AI voices for educational videos?

Lorraine and Harvey from the Enbee V2 lineup are strong fits for lecture-style educational content. Etta works well for younger audiences and interactive learning modules. All Enbee V2 voices support multilingual output for educators producing content for non-English-speaking learners.

What are the top AI voices for YouTube videos?

Ivy, Harvey, and Harlan from the Narration Box Enbee V2 lineup perform well across YouTube content types. Ivy suits personal and conversational channels. Harvey suits business, finance, and information channels. Harlan handles storytelling, narration, and documentary-style content. All three support style prompting to match voice energy to your specific channel format.

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