Dec 2, 2024 01:44 AM
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https://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/famous-...d-34226429
RELEASE: Dead authors are going to narrate their own books from beyond the grave. Book publishers are set to use artificial intelligence to create the real voices of late writers to read their tales in audiobooks.
Among the famous names being lined up are Agatha Christie voicing Miss Marple and JRR Tolkien narrating "The Lord Of The Rings".
Boffins have created advanced AI software in a technological revolution that could change the audiobook industry. Publishing execs are working with the estates of deceased authors to secure the rights to archive tapes, such as radio interviews, to sample their voices.
AI bots will listen through the hours of clips and learn to mimic the authors’ voices before reading aloud published works. Jon Watt, chairman of the Audio Publishers Group, told The Bookseller magazine’s FutureBook conference: “AI voices can be generated from licensed samples for a specific human voice.”
Mr Watt added that publishers would be able to “create an authorised voice replica”.
RELEASE: Dead authors are going to narrate their own books from beyond the grave. Book publishers are set to use artificial intelligence to create the real voices of late writers to read their tales in audiobooks.
Among the famous names being lined up are Agatha Christie voicing Miss Marple and JRR Tolkien narrating "The Lord Of The Rings".
Boffins have created advanced AI software in a technological revolution that could change the audiobook industry. Publishing execs are working with the estates of deceased authors to secure the rights to archive tapes, such as radio interviews, to sample their voices.
AI bots will listen through the hours of clips and learn to mimic the authors’ voices before reading aloud published works. Jon Watt, chairman of the Audio Publishers Group, told The Bookseller magazine’s FutureBook conference: “AI voices can be generated from licensed samples for a specific human voice.”
Mr Watt added that publishers would be able to “create an authorised voice replica”.