🧠 How Apple is using AI to win this $20 billion industry 📖

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🔦 AI SPOTLIGHT: AI-Narrated Audiobooks

All eyes have been on Microsoft and Google's AI developments. But there's another big tech giant quietly making moves in AI...

Earlier this month, Apple announced that they would be launching AI-narrated audio books.

Here's why this is a big deal:

The global Audiobooks industry will grow to $19.7 billion by 2028!

This growth is being triggered by changes in consumer habits. More people would prefer to listen or watch content than read it. (I blame TikTok)

However, this poses a problem for many authors.

Today, if you want an audio version of your book, you have 2 options:

1) Spend months narrating it yourself

OR

2) Pay thousands of $ for a professional narrator

But what if it didn't have to be this way?

Apple is making audiobooks accessible to all, by allowing authors to have AI narrate their books for a fraction of the time/cost.

These AI narrators are SHOCKINGLY good. So good, that you can mistake it for a real human voice.

Initially, this functionality will only be available for specific genres. These categories include romance and fiction.

This is likely because they are only training the model on this specific dataset to start.

It's worth noting that this approach goes directly against Amazon's stance.

Amazon does NOT allow AI narration, and requires all audiobooks to be narrated by a human.

Which strategy will win in the long term? Only time will tell.

But if Apple has its way, it might be an AI narrator reading your bedtime stories in the near future.

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