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Apple has made audiobooks with narration by a text-to-speech artificial intelligence algorithm accessible through Apple Books.
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The feature of digital narration or digital narration feature is created to help audiobooks be more accessible by making them more straightforward and less expensive to create or make.
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The present model for audiobook production typically has authors either narrating their work or hiring someone else to handle it for them.
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It's a cost-intensive process that could take several weeks to complete.
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Artificially-powered narrators, however, are free and allow smaller publishers and less well-known authors to produce audio versions of their works.
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The Guardian, which first announced the news late Wednesday, stated that Apple has already approached several independent publishers about potential partnerships and enticed them by the possibility of taking on production costs.
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Authors selling audiobooks through Apple Books will be reportedly paid 70 percent of the sale cost, as well as Apple taking 30% of the sales.
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According to Apple, authors and publishers retain the full rights to their audiobooks.