![]() ![]() ![]() The Cupertino-based company said that once an author submits a request, it takes “one to two months to process the book and conduct quality checks.”Īpple specified that if there is not enough time for post-production checks, the title is published as soon as the processing is completed. But even with this process, results are not instant. Apple’s AI-generation suit probably aims to remove any need for sitting down and recording the narration in a studio. If you look at audiobook titles on the Apple Book store, they are often narrated by the author with other guests or voice artists pitching in at times. Apple Books has long been on the forefront of innovative speech technology and has now adapted it for long-form reading, working alongside publishers, authors, and narrators,” Apple said on its website. “Apple Books digital narration brings together advanced speech synthesis technology with important work by teams of linguists, quality control specialists, and audio engineers to produce high-quality audiobooks from an ebook file. The company said that these voices are trained in specific genres, but Apple didn’t specify what training data it is using to tune them. ![]() Currently, Apple offers four voices under soprano and baritone categories: Madison and Jackson (romance and fiction) Helena and Mitchell (self-development and nonfiction). Plus, it is starting its AI-powered voice narration work for nonfiction and self-development genres. While Apple says the program is for independent authors, currently they have to sign up with partner publishing companies - Draft2Digital or Ingram CoreSource - to get their book narrated by Apple’s AI voices.Īpple is already accepting submissions under the romance and fiction genres - with support for only literary, historical, and women’s fiction at the moment - through the partners mentioned above. ![]()
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