The resulting AI “voice clones” can then be used to quickly produce new audiobook recordings, with human narrators still involved to oversee quality control.
What just happened? Audible is ramping up its use of artificial intelligence for audiobook narration but is taking an inclusive approach by involving human narrators in the process. The Amazon-owned company announced this week that it will invite select US-based audiobook professionals to train AI models using their voices.
The resulting AI “voice clones” can then be used to quickly produce new audiobook recordings, with human narrators still involved to oversee quality control.
Audible has been working on AI-narrated audiobooks for some time. Last year, the company introduced AI-generated “virtual voices” to narrate ebooks from self-published authors on Amazon’s Kindle platform.
