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Google is Creating an App that will “Read” Books to turn them Into Audiobooks
This will completely change the way these types of books are created
Creating an audiobook is not easy. Although an audiobook lasts six or seven hours, it did not take six or seven hours to record it, but much longer. It is a tedious and long process that is generally reserved for great titles and works. The clearest proof is in the Google Play rankings. It is not common to find audiobooks of more minority books or new authors. Google says it has a possible solution: Auto narrate them.
In a post on its official blog, Google has confirmed that Google Play is working with publishers in the United States and the United Kingdom, to uses an automatic narrator so “books without audio versions can be narrated.” The tool in question is currently in beta but will be made available to all publishers in early 2021.
The company has taken advantage of the announcement to publish an illustrative video in which we can something interesting. We don’t know how exactly the…
