Published on: 2025-07-08 22:59:55
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 technology, particularly in the US video games industr
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-12 08:18:08
is a senior reporter who’s been covering and reviewing the latest gadgets and tech since 2006, but has loved all things electronic since he was a kid. Amazon’s Audible has announced that it’s planning to expand its audiobook catalog by giving select publishers access to its new “fully integrated, end-to-end AI production technology” that will let them more easily convert titles to audiobooks with their choice of AI-generated voices. The initiative will also help expand global access to audioboo
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-12 20:46:46
Audible, Amazon’s audiobook service, announced on Tuesday that it’s partnering with select publishers to convert print and e-books into AI-narrated audiobooks. This initiative aims to quickly expand its catalog as it competes with Apple, Spotify, and others in the rapidly growing audiobook market. Audible is leveraging Amazon’s AI capabilities to assist publishers in producing audiobooks. Publishers can choose from over 100 AI-generated voices available in English, French, Spanish, and Italian,
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-12 23:31:00
Audible will now offer publishers the option to let AI narrate their books. Amazon's audiobook service announced the expanded production capabilities today, noting that publishers will have the choice of more than 100 AI-generated voices across English, Spanish, French and Italian. "Audible believes that AI represents a momentous opportunity to expand the availability of audiobooks with the vision of offering customers every book in every language," Audible CEO Bob Carrigan said in the press r
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-10-03 00:00:16
Consider, for your listening pleasure, the next frontier in sonic miracles: so-called "audible enclaves," where only you can hear a sound without disturbing anyone else in open space — no headphones required. As developed by a team of researchers at Penn State, whose findings are published as study in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, this technology can create pockets of sound isolated from their surroundings that can be targeted at a specific location, potentially p
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-10-06 23:55:25
What if you could listen to music or a podcast without headphones or earbuds and without disturbing anyone around you? Or have a private conversation in public without other people hearing you? Our newly published research introduces a way to create audible enclaves – localized pockets of sound that are isolated from their surroundings. In other words, we’ve developed a technology that could create sound exactly where it needs to be. The ability to send sound that becomes audible only at a spe
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-10-15 03:50:44
We’re an audiobook family at House Hutchinson, and at any given moment my wife or I are probably listening to one while puttering around. We've collected a bit over 300 of the things—mostly titles from web sources (including Amazon's Audible) and from older physical "books on tape" (most of which are actually on CDs). I don't mind doing the extra legwork of getting everything into files and then dragging-n-dropping those files into the Books app on my Mac, but my wife prefers to simply use Audib
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