HarperCollins and ElevenLabs AI to create audiobooks for foreign titles

The agreement will lead to the production of audio versions of select deep backlist series books that would not otherwise have been created, using ElevenLabs’s text-to-speech technology. According to ElevenLabs, the tech firm has developed an AI-based tool that can transform text into speech using artificial intelligence and makes it possible to “reflect the emotion, intonation, and pacing of the written word in audio, delivering a high-quality experience that sounds human”.

Source: HarperCollins and ElevenLabs AI to create audiobooks for foreign titles

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