Report: “PRH Audio’s Amanda D’Acierno on Experimentation with AI in Audiobooks”

From The Bookseller:

Penguin Random House Audio’s (PRH Audio) global president Amanda D’Acierno told the 2024 FutureBook conference that it would be “almost negligent” if the audiobook publisher was not experimenting with Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies at this time.

The publisher recently announced that it has been using artificial voices, generated with AI, in a small number of cases to record audiobooks. Speaking with Jon Watt, trade audio and business development director at Bonnier Books UK (BBUK) on Monday 25th November, D’Acierno said that there are “so many uses” for AI technologies, including using artificial narration for audiobooks on the subject of AI.

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Where AI narration has been used in an audiobook, D’Acierno explained that this “needs to be really clearly labelled for the consumer”. She also said that Audible “does not sell anything that is produced with artificial voice”, and that this is “keeping the marketplace sort of in one spot”.

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