Amazon will begin inviting a small group of Audible narrators to train AI-generated voice clones of themselves this week, with the aim of speeding up audiobook production for the platform. The US-only beta test was announced on Audible’s creator marketplace and will be extended to rights holders like authors,

Audible has announced that it is going to recruit narrators to train up AI to generate new audiobook recordings.

Amazon.com Inc.’s Audible will begin inviting a select group of US-based audiobook narrators to train artificial intelligence on their voices, the clones of which can then be used to make audiobook recordings.

Amazon's audiobook arm, Audible, has launched a new initiative, asking US-based narrators to participate in developing AI voice models that can replicate their own voices. This effort is designed to streamline audiobook production, expanding the available library more swiftly and at a lower cost.

To lower publication costs and speed up the release of audiobooks, Amazon’s (NASDAQ:AMZN) Audible will begin inviting a small group of narrators to create replicas of their own voice using AI-generated speech technology.