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Podcast creation peaked during the height of the pandemic, and companies like Spotify and Amazon have been chasing that growth. But the number of new shows that debuted in 2022 was down 80 percent since 2020.
There are some books the robots still can’t perform convincingly. But there are many they can.
Today we’d like to introduce you to Petrea Burchard. Hi Petrea, we’d love for you to start by introducing yourself. I knew from a young age that I wanted to be an actor. I saw Franco Zeffirelli’s Romeo & Juliet over and over again when it came out. I wanted to speak those words, wear […]
Because AI is apparently just like us, it seems to have romanticized the creative fields. So instead of, say, figuring out how to help me dispute denied insurance claims, it’s more interested…
In the past five years, Bermudian actor Joel Froomkin has narrated more than 450 audiobooks and won numerous awards, including 11 Earphones from Audiofile magazine. The 49-year-old credits part o
Introduction Wow. What a year. I can remember writing this essay last year, and being all giddy about the fact that I was hiding four secret novels from yo
Daniel A. Gross writes about Robin Miles, one of the country’s most celebrated narrators of audiobooks, and the story of her career.
2022 Christmas shopping and reading challenges should include audiobooks. They do count as reading, on Goodreads and elsewhere.
Ratana is a voice actor and performance coach.
People who use audiobooks are expanding what reading is and can be. But they are also incentivizing publishers to change, in unexpected ways.
Deepfake audio can be very convincing, but it is possible to discern it.
Actors worry that AI is taking centre stage
Blackstone Publishing: How a Startup in a Garage Grew into an Influential Media Publisher By Debbie Burke One day in the 1980s, entrepreneur Craig Black was stuck in gridlock on a southern California freeway. As he scanned thousands of vehicles around him stretching as far as the eye could see, realization struck him that people
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Global audiobook publisher RBmedia has announced the acquisition of Ukemi Audiobooks and Dharma Audiobooks, acquiring each business’ full catalogues of titles.
Text-to-speech model can preserve speaker's emotional tone and acoustic environment.
The addition has received criticism from some publishing companies who say listeners want an authentic human voice.
Publishers and authors rightly fear that they'll lose out financially from the digitization of books; but it's also quite possible that, properly managed, the technological revolution will make them more money.
Combining sophisticated speech synthesis technology with a talented team of linguists, quality control specialists, and audio engineers, Apple Books is producing high-quality, digitally narrated audiobooks.
Audiobooks are becoming more and more popular as people prefer audio to reading. Today, audiobooks are th
Hearing a memoir in the author’s voice can make a big difference, and not just when the author is Viola Davis. Plus: A creepy novel gets creepier in audio.
Hillary Huber once didn't finish reading a book before narrating it and had to rerecord a character after finding out they had a British accent.
The streaming service that transformed the music industry is expanding into audiobooks, and will offer more than 300,000 titles on a pay-per-book model.
The Spotify you know and love is getting a lot bigger with the addition of a catalog of content that users have been requesting for years: audiobooks. Starting today, Spotify listeners in the U.S. will be able to purchase and listen to more than 300,000 audiobook titles—making our platform a true all-in-one destination for everyone’s... Read more »
Audiobook narrator Natalie Naudus shares how she went from being a freelance musician to working her six-figure dream job from home.
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