Apple Make Narration Less Costly and Time ConsumingĬurrently, many audiobooks are narrated by their authors, which can be time-consuming and costly for publishers. Right now, the voices are dedicated to fiction and romance novels, while non-fiction and self-development voices will be available in the future. The AI voices that will be used to narrate the books are generated to be optimized for specific genres. Apple has long been on the forefront of innovative speech technology, and has now adapted it for long-form reading, working alongside publishers, authors, and narrators. Apple wrote:Īpple Books digital narration brings together advanced speech synthesis technology with important work by teams of linguists, quality control specialists, and audio engineers to produce high-quality audiobooks from an ebook file. This has the potential to significantly impact the multi-billion dollar audiobook industry by making the production of audiobooks more accessible and affordable for authors and publishers. Apple has introduced a feature called digital narration for its Books service that allows for the creation of audiobooks using text-to-speech artificial intelligence.

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