UK AI start-up DeepZen has partnered with Ingram Content Group to provide AI-generated text-to-speech audiobooks. DeepZen explains in their release that they have licensed voices from voice actors and narrators, “capturing all of the elements of the human voice, such as pacing and intonation, and a wide range of emotions that produce more realistic speech patterns.” The AI uses those licensed voices for machine-created narration that features “seven different emotions.” The production process “combines AI technology with human editing” and takes approximately three weeks to produce an audiobook. Samples from their audiobooks are provided here. DeepZen ceo Taylan Kamis said, […]
