{"id":1616,"date":"2023-12-20T08:53:04","date_gmt":"2023-12-20T13:53:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.audiobooksnow.com\/blog\/?p=1616"},"modified":"2024-03-11T10:02:25","modified_gmt":"2024-03-11T14:02:25","slug":"ai-narrated-audiobooks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.audiobooksnow.com\/blog\/ai-narrated-audiobooks\/","title":{"rendered":"AI-Narrated Audiobooks"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.audiobooksnow.com\/images\/blog\/ai-reading-book.jpg\" alt=\"AI Reading Book\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Audiobooks being narrated by an artificial voice or artificial intelligence (AI) has been a hot button topic in the audiobook industry from many years.  We attended the Audiobook Publishers Association&#8217;s annual conference back in May 2017 in New York City and it was being heavily discussed then.  They were referring to it as Text-to-Speech Technology at the time, but the acronym AI (<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Artificial_intelligence\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Artaficial Intelegnce<\/a>) has taken over today&#8217;s terminology.  The issues with &#8220;Text-to-Speech&#8221; technology back in 2017 was the lack of rhythm, style, and emotion.  The synthesized voices also did not sound very lifelike.  Those issues have come a long way since 2017 and combined with today&#8217;s AI ability to learn, they are less of an issue today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Issues with AI-Narrated Audiobooks:<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n\n\n<li>Lack of rhythm, style, and emotion in voice<\/li>\n\n\n<li>Unlifelike sound of synthesized voices<\/li>\n\n\n<li>Takes jobs away from human narrators<\/li>\n\n<\/ul>\n\n\n<p>Human narration is considered an art, with many of today&#8217;s top narrators taking decades to refine their craft.  Digital narration may have its place with manuals and self published authors, but major publishing houses say audiobooks must be narrated by a human.  Why would AI narration even be considered you ask, money.  The average audiobook takes about one week to narrate, AI narrations take a fraction of that time.  So how long will it take before publishing houses realize the economic benefits of AI?<\/p>\n\n\n<p>Today, they are cloning the voice of professional narrators who license the rights to their voice.  This makes a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.audiobooksnow.com\/search\/digitally%20narrated\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">digitally narrated<\/a> audiobook sound more lifelike but has many narrators alarmed at what it could mean for their industry.  Weather you agree or disagree with AI narrated audioboks, it&#8217;s clear the technology is here to stay, and more and more audiobooks will be digitally narrated in the future. The big question is, will the public accept AI-narrated literature? only time will tell.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Audiobooks being narrated by an artificial voice or artificial intelligence (AI) has been a hot button topic in the audiobook industry from many years. We attended the Audiobook Publishers Association&#8217;s annual conference back in May 2017 in New York City and it was being heavily discussed then. They were referring to it as Text-to-Speech Technology &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.audiobooksnow.com\/blog\/ai-narrated-audiobooks\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;AI-Narrated Audiobooks&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1616","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.audiobooksnow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1616","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.audiobooksnow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.audiobooksnow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.audiobooksnow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.audiobooksnow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1616"}],"version-history":[{"count":20,"href":"https:\/\/www.audiobooksnow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1616\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1642,"href":"https:\/\/www.audiobooksnow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1616\/revisions\/1642"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.audiobooksnow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1616"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.audiobooksnow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1616"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.audiobooksnow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1616"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}