If you’ve ever watched an audiobook narrator work, you know the setup — a DAW on one screen, a PDF on another, a folder full of carefully named WAV files, and a thread of revision notes somewhere in their inbox. Every tool does its job, but none of them talk to each other. Punch Track is a new platform that brings recording, manuscript reading, review, and project management into a single browser-based application, purpose-built for audiobook narration.

I’m building Punch Track with Todd Kramer, a professional audiobook narrator. When Todd described his daily recording workflow — the context switching, the file juggling, the software that fought him at every step — I recognised a problem I could solve. Not with another general-purpose DAW, but with a focused tool built specifically for how audiobooks actually get made. My experience with Audio Audit, cloud infrastructure, and real-time web applications made the technical path clear. Punch Track is the product of that overlap: deep understanding of the audiobook pipeline from Todd’s side, combined with the engineering to deliver it through a single browser tab.

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