AI Voice Cloning is About to Shake Up the Audiobook Industry
<p>Audiobooks have skyrocketed in popularity in recent years, for various reasons. With engaging narration and other incorporated sound effects, they can be far more immersive than text-based books. People can listen to audiobooks while doing other (usually non-language-based) tasks, which makes them a great choice for busy people or people who want to squeeze in more books than they have time to read. And for blind and sight-impaired readers, they are a cheap alternative to the oh-so-expensive Braille books.</p>
<p>I used to be an audiobook naysayer naysayer who felt like reading should be confined to — you know — <em>reading</em>, but my mind has been changed. I’ve learned to love audiobooks and now consider the active listening involved in consuming them to count as reading. Audiobooks have become one of my number one defenses against my insomnia, as I can use them to get through the sleepless nights <em>or </em>to evade insomnia entirely (using them to distract myself from my midnight waking thoughts or to lull myself to sleep with soothing epic-fantasy narrator voices).</p>
<p>My love for audiobooks means that the number of books I read annually has nearly tripled.</p>
<p>This is all to say that I recognize the greatness of audiobooks, and this explains why, as an indie author, I’ve always wanted to turn one of my own fiction novels into an audiobook. But the endeavor (the creation plus production part) is not cheap!</p>
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