![]() ![]() Audiobook publishers and voice actors may disagree, of course. Digital narration, meanwhile, makes it more economically feasible for small publishing houses and independent writers to enter the audiobook market, Apple says. The current model involves authors or, more often, voice actors recording books-a process that can take weeks and cost publishers thousands of dollars. ![]() "Digitally narrated titles are a valuable complement to professionally narrated audiobooks, and will help bring audio to as many books and as many people as possible," Apple says. Apple is also experimenting with nonfiction and self-development, with plans for wider availability in the future. ![]() Madison, for example, is a soprano narrating Loving From Afar by romance writer Mona Ingram, while baritone Jackson reads Alex Lyttle's fiction title From Ant to Eagle. "Apple 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," Apple says on its authors page.Īs The Guardian notes, you can find these titles on Apple Books by searching for "AI narration." The publisher description will say: "This is an Apple Books audiobook narrated by a digital voice based on a human narrator."ĭigital voices are created and optimized for different genres. ![]()
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