Applehas quietly rolled out a new “ digital narration ” feature for itsaudiobooksin a move that could make human narrator job obsolete . The company had stand for to release the AI - recount audiobook feature article on its Books app in mid - November butaccording toThe Guardian , those plans were delay amidst Elon Musk’schaotic Twitter takeoverandlayoffs at Metadominated headlines .
Apple did not at once answer to Gizmodo ’s asking for scuttlebutt .
Apple approached sovereign publishers in the U.S. and Canada , ask if they would be interested in a potential partnership , involve those who agreed to sign non - disclosure agreements which is common within the tech industry , The Guardianfirst reported .
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Audiobook popularity has surged in late years but companies have struggled to keep up with the high demand and the increase number of books being write . According to The Guardian , audiobook gross sales increased by 25 % last year , play in more than $ 1.5 billion to the audiobook market . The industry is expected to strain $ 33.5 billion in overall revenue this year .
The AI - narrated feature article is currently only available for fable and Latinian language books and offers two voice , Madison and Jackson , for the hearer to choose from . Apple also says on its website that it is kicking off its AI narration for non - fiction and self - developing genre , offering two AI - generated voices , Helena and Mitchell .
However , the addition has received unfavorable judgment from some publishing companies who say listeners want an authentic human voice that provides inflection and flavor that AI software can not generate .
Canadian literary agent , Carly Watters severalise The Guardian that AI - tell books do n’t make sense from a literary or attender linear perspective , saying “ It ’s not what customers want to listen to . ” The overall value , she said , far outweighs the cost that goes into human - narrate audiobooks .
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