Audible unveils plans to use AI voices to narrate audiobooks

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Amazon brand will offer more than 100 artificial intelligence-generated voices in English and other languagesAudible has announced plans to use AI technology to narrate audiobooks, with AI translation to follow.

The Amazon-owned audiobook provider has said it will be making its AI production technology available to certain publishers via "select partnerships”.Continue reading...

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