Apple Books quietly launches AI-narrated audiobooks
by Jon Porter from The Verge - All Posts on (#67GFH)
Apple's website says digital narration makes audiobooks more widely available to authors. | Image: Apple Audiobooks narrated by a text-to-speech AI are now available via Apple's Books service, in a move with potentially huge implications for the multi-billion dollar audiobook industry. Apple describes the new digital narration" feature on its website as making the creation of audiobooks more accessible to all," by reducing the cost and complexity" of producing them for authors and publishers.
The feature represents a big shift from the current audiobook model, which often involves authors narrating their own books in a process that can take weeks and cost thousands for a publisher. Digital narration has the potential to allow smaller publishers and authors to put out an audiobook at a much lower cost.
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