Audible, Amazon’s audiobook business, announced Monday that it will use artificial intelligence trained on the voices of professional narrators to generate new audiobook recordings.
Audible has announced that a select group of audiobook narrators in the United States will be invited to train an AI to use their voices starting this week. The trained AI will be used to make recordings, and narrators will have the opportunity to approve their synthetic voice for specific works, as well as edit pronunciation and pacing.
Audible says narrators participating in the program will be compensated for any audiobooks created using their AI voices, title by title, with royalties shared.
