Apple has been instrumental in higher prices for e-books and in slowing Spotify’s challenge to Amazon’s dominance of audiobooks.

Apple has launched new audiobooks narrated by AI-generated voices. Some critics argue they're not what customers want. I listened to a mix of human narrators and AI voices in a blind test to guess ...

For now, you can listen to audiobooks that use Apple's AI by searching for "AI narration" in Apple Books. About. Engadget Masthead About our Ads Advertise Licensing FAQ RSS Feed. Sections.

Kurt "CyberGuy" Knutsson checks out a new Apple Audiobooks feature that uses human-sounding artificial intelligence (AI) narrator technology to read audiobooks.

In mid-September, Apple approved the audiobook update, Spotify said. Spotify launched the feature days later, advertising the 300,000 titles it was making available.

Apple Inc. has made audiobooks narrated by a text-to-speech artificial intelligence algorithm available through Apple Books.The digital narration feature, as it’s called, is designed to make aud ...

Apple isn't the only company in the AI audiobook space, but is easier one for independent authors. Google Play Audiobooks also has a solution, but they only partner with established publishers.

Apple probably won't be the only company to do it, either. Google and Amazon—also major purveyors of both ebooks and audiobooks—have publicly talked about this possibility before.

Apple described such audiobooks as being “narrated by digital voice based on a human narrator”. Using search terms like ‘AI narration’ in the Apple Books app will bring up such audiobooks.

This long-awaited update follows a recent U.S. court ruling that ordered Apple to stop charging fees on purchases made outside of the App Store.. The ability to buy audiobooks directly within the ...

Apple Music has bled into basically every aspect of daily life, so it’s only natural to wonder whether audiobooks fall under that umbrella.