Apple has caused a surprise with the latest shipment of audiobooks it has released in its book catalogue: the voice narrating these books is not that of a human if not that of an artificial intelligence. At the moment it’s happening with English language books, the Guardian reports.
Officially, Apple speaks of “digital voices that are modeled on a human narrator” and wanted to start them earlier, although the events surrounding Elon Musk and the layoffs at Meta have delayed this until today. But regardless of their qualifications, the omission of human voices can generate some controversy.
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At the business model level, the structure doesn’t change much: the citation, which the authors of the original books will continue to calculate royalties and the Apple bears the cost of generating the votes through artificial intelligence. Cost, which we assume is less than what it would mean to hire a human narrator. At least in the long term.
Now it remains to be seen whether this leap to artificial voices for book narration will be noticed by audiences. There are estimates that the audio book market will grow to $35 billion by 2030, so the reaction should be felt.
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And of course, if this first series of audio books narrated by artificial intelligence is successful, we should soon see the same with audio books narrated in Spanish. Would you listen to an audio book narrated by an artificially generated voice if it was that convincing? The debate is served.
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