Audible will now offer publishers the option to let AI narrate their books.
Amazon’s audiobook service announced the expanded production capabilities today, noting that publishers will have the choice of more than 100 AI-generated voices across English, Spanish, French and Italian.
“Audible believes that AI represents a momentous opportunity to expand the availability of audiobooks with the vision of offering customers every book in every language,” Audible CEO Bob Carrigan said in the press release.Â
The company said that the service will tap into Amazon’s advanced AI capabilities to produce the audiobooks, and that publishers will be able to choose between letting Audible handle the entire audiobook production process, or using the self-service production option.
Audible also said it will roll out a Beta version of its AI translation service for its global audience later this year.
