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Amazon’s Audiobook Narrators Can Now Make Their Own AI Voice Clones


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But it’s easy to see where this could go from here, and soon Audible could be opened up to let any author capable of generating an AI voice that can read their own book. Other companies are playing in this space as well; the startup Rebind is enlisting authors to allow their voices to be cloned so an AI version of them can “guide” readers through their texts. Meta—the Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp company that also does AI—has announced that its AI services are set to colonize a new cultural realm: the Brits.

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