Audible, Amazon’s audiobook business, on Monday announced that it’ll use AI trained on professional narrators’ voices to generate new audiobook recordings.
A select, U.S.-based cohort of audiobook narrators will be invited to train AI on their voices starting this week, Audible said. The trained AI will be used to make recordings, and narrators will have the chance to approve their synthetic voice for specific works as well as edit the pronunciation and pacing.
Audible says narrators who participate in the program will be compensated for any audiobooks created using their AI voices on a title-by-title, royalty-sharing basis.
