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The big surprise in your next audiobook might be that the narrator is… a (voice) clone!

Audiobooks are a booming business, but it’s impossible to imagine highly skilled artists reading aloud every book ever written. To fill that gap, Audible, Amazon’s audiobook division, is testing the use of AI-generated voice clones to speed up the process. The idea of ​​a massive proliferation of audiobooks is clearly appealing, but it also raises questions about whether they can match human performance—or whether it’s worth pursuing even if they can.

The program, in beta in the U.S., is designed for a group of current Audible narrators to create voice clones using AI trained on samples of their speech. They can then plug these AI replicas into their book recordings. The AI ​​voice won’t just be a plug-in for certain chapters and passages, either. Narrators will be able to edit their AI voices to correct pronunciation, slow down or speed up the pace, and then review the final production to ensure accuracy, just as they would a live reading.

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