In December, apple announced for the first time the new feature through the Apple Books website for authors. This feature allows publishers on the Apple Books platform to choose to convert their written books into a form of narrated audio using AI. On the same web page you can listen to samples of the voices developed specifically for this feature.
Listen to your favorite books more realistically than ever with audiobooks with AI narration in Apple Books!
More and more people who love books are listening to audiobooks, yet only a fraction of books are converted to audio, leaving millions of titles unheard. Many authors, especially freelance writers and those associated with small publishers, are unable to create audiobooks due to the cost and complexity of production. Apple Books digital storytelling makes audiobook creation more accessible to everyone, helping meet the growing demand by making more books available for listening.
Apple Books digital storytelling unites advanced speech synthesis technology with the extensive work of teams of linguists, QA specialists, and audio engineers to produce high-quality audiobooks from an ebook file. Apple has always been at the forefront of innovative voice technology, and now it’s adapted for long-term reading, working together with publishers, authors, and storytellers.
Apple Books digital storytelling unites advanced speech synthesis technology with the extensive work of teams of linguists, QA specialists, and audio engineers to produce high-quality audiobooks from an ebook file. Apple has always been at the forefront of innovative voice technology and now it’s adapted for long-term reading, working together with publishers, authors and storytellers…
Digitally narrated titles are a valuable complement to professionally narrated audiobooks and will help to further enhance this format and offer it to as many people as possible.
Apple Books remains committed to enhancing and delivering the charm of human storytelling and will continue to enhance the human-narrated audiobook catalogue.
The first AI-narrated audiobooks are now available on Apple Books, labeled “Narrated by Apple Books.”
