New in Audiobooks: “Swedish Users of Storytel Can Switch Between Different Artificial Voices When Listening to Books”
From Dagbladet (via Google Translate)
Artificial intelligence has made inroads into literature. Now Swedish users of Storytel can switch between different artificial voices when listening to books.
In addition to the usual narration voice, various AI-generated voices are also offered such as:
- Carin, a female and slightly more mature voice.
- Amanda, a younger female voice with more energy.
- Erik, a soft and deeper male voice.
- Martin, a middle-aged man’s voice.
- Stefan, an AI-generated version of actor Stefan Sauk’s own voice.
The intention is to make the audiobook experience more personal, Storytel states.
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For now, Storytel has no plans to introduce artificial voices in Norway.
– Our experience is that Norwegian listeners are very satisfied with the many good and varied voices that stand for the reading of Norwegian literature today, says Ole Werring, the Norwegian Storytel manager, to NRK, which mentioned the matter first.
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Gary Price (gprice@gmail.com) is a librarian, writer, consultant, and frequent conference speaker based in the Washington D.C. metro area. He earned his MLIS degree from Wayne State University in Detroit. Price has won several awards including the SLA Innovations in Technology Award and Alumnus of the Year from the Wayne St. University Library and Information Science Program. From 2006-2009 he was Director of Online Information Services at Ask.com.
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