AI human-voice clones are coming for the Amazon, Apple, Google audiobook
AI voice will get better, and listener resistance to it will, accordingly, shrink. The question with game-changing new technologies isn't even if, but when. Ciccarelli knows that.
In the past two decades, narrators have gone from reading photocopies of printed books and editing out page turn sounds to reading on a tablet; from recording exclusively in studios to recording many titles at home. Audio editors have gone from splicing tape with razors to editing digital files by rolling back and recording over mistakes. Publishers have gone from delivering content on cassette to CD to digitally.
"Some publishers prefer not to pay the additional cost and some authors are also reticent to take on that cost themselves," Kinsella said. "If the author records it in their own voice, there still is some studio and editing cost, and it can take many days to complete."Apple developed a program that mitigates or eliminates the friction in audiobook production as part of its effort to have more audiobooks for readers.
Ziffer expects AI to be most widely used among companies with smaller budgets or those focused on e-learning texts. "But for those who want the best, the job is best left to humans," he said. "Living, breathing actors who have real feelings, a brain and emotions and can breathe life into work are the best fit for a dynamic and believable VO. It may be easy to clone anything with technology, but nothing beats the real deal.
She has yet to see AI have a significant impact on her finances, but she added, "My guess is that day will come. So rather than putting my head in the sand, I'm trying to get ahead of it"
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