Why Audible Is Silencing Humans—and Giving AI a Listen

Why Audible is Silencing Humans—and Giving AI a Listen

Audible will offer publishers AI technology to produce audiobooks, which will affect workers in voiceover, production, translation and engineering jobs.

Audible’s AI narration sounds impressive, but I'd rather hear the story told by a human

Audible's AI narration is here, but is best used for translation and not when unnecessary.

Even Audiobooks Aren't Safe From AI Slop

Audible, one of the world's largest audiobook platforms, is opening the floodgates to AI slop. On Tuesday, the Amazon-owned service announced its new "integrated AI narration technology" that'll allow selected publishers to rapidly churn out audiobooks using a wide range of AI-generated voices.  It's Audible's biggest foray into AI yet, and will be a major blow for voice actors, who are fighting tooth and nail to win protections against the tech…

Amazon Audible Is Going To Use AI Voices to Narrate Audiobooks

What’s the end goal in an audiobook’s narration, anyway? Is it the simple transfer of information, plot device, and spoken words, like copying bytes in a file from one folder to another? Or is it about nuance and emotion? Put me in the category of the latter. And so I had mixed feelings when I read that Amazon is launching AI narration for audiobooks on its audiobook and podcast platform, Audible. Publishers will be able to choose from more than…

Audible to Partner With Publishers to Create AI-Voiced Audiobooks

The audiobook platform wants to ‘close the gap’ between the number of print and e-books in existence and audiobooks

Audible opens the door wide to AI audiobooks

Audible will offer AI production technology to select publishers, first for narration and later for translated narration. This premium article is available to paid subscribers of Jane's newsletter. Here's what subscribers get: Access to more than 3,000 premium articles on this site, all searchable Industry news that includes Jane’s reporting and analysis, sent via email once a wek Access to Jane’s private resource guides, continually updated L…