AI audiobooks have flooded Audible since the company announced a beta tool last year. It allowed authors to forgo paying authentic narrators and publish audiobooks using the "virtual voice." Since the platform went live, over 40,000 AI-narrated titles have flooded Audible. This was just the beginning. Audible plans to get human narrators who will volunteer to create speech … [Read more...] about Audiobook AI Will Never Replace Human Narrators
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AI Narrators and Audible: Boon or Bane for Storytelling
Last year, Amazon announced that self-published authors in the USA who sell their books on the Kindle Store would be able to use a new tool in beta testing. This AI-generated "virtual voice" tool would allow authors to easily turn their ebooks into audiobooks. Now, months after the beta launch, more than 40,000 books in Audible have reportedly been generated with it, saving … [Read more...] about AI Narrators and Audible: Boon or Bane for Storytelling
Microsoft AI Feeds Project Gutenberg With 5,000 Audiobooks
In the ebook site Project Gutenberg, the readers can explore 5,000 open-license audiobooks. This is an initiative by Project Gutenberg, Microsoft, Google, and MIT. The project has approximately 35,000 hours of audio generated by AI, which sounds next to the human voice. You can listen to works of Edgar Allan Poe, Frankenstein, or Shakespeare's Macbeth with its mysterious … [Read more...] about Microsoft AI Feeds Project Gutenberg With 5,000 Audiobooks
AI is Shaking the Audiobook Industry. Should Human Narrators Be Worried?
In January 2023, Apple Books launched a catalog of AI-narrated audiobooks. Apple describes its “digital narration” feature as a way to make audiobooks more accessible by reducing the cost and complexity of producing them. Similarly, Google’s engineers created “Mary,” which is a generic female, “Archie” for British accent, “Santiago” for Spanish, and 40+ other AI narrators … [Read more...] about AI is Shaking the Audiobook Industry. Should Human Narrators Be Worried?
Can Audiobooks Replace Physical Books in Future?
Audiobooks have recently gained immense popularity for their interesting stories, professional narrators, and accessible online platforms. It allows you to listen to your favorite books while multi-tasking and expanding your vocabulary. That's why, lately, many readers have preferred audiobooks over physical books. Now with such a trend, you must be wondering whether … [Read more...] about Can Audiobooks Replace Physical Books in Future?
Tech Firms to Embrace AI Human-Voice Clones for Audiobooks
Audiobooks have surged into huge popularity as a preferred book format. The global audiobook market size is projected to hit USD 33,538 Million by 2030. Everyone, from voice artists to authors, publishers, and alike are eager to capitalize on this multi-billion-dollar industry. And tech companies are no exception. Last year, Google Play Books announced that publishers could … [Read more...] about Tech Firms to Embrace AI Human-Voice Clones for Audiobooks