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# Apple Books quietly launches AI-narrated audiobooks
- URL: https://werd.io/apple-books-quietly-launches-ai-narrated-audiobooks/
- Published: 2023-01-05T19:23:15.000Z
- Updated: 2023-01-05T19:23:15.000Z
- Author: Ben Werdmuller
- Tags: #Import 2025-06-13 09:22

“Audiobooks narrated by a text-to-speech AI are now available via Apple’s Books service, in a move with potentially huge implications for the multi-billion dollar audiobook industry. Apple describes the new “digital narration” feature on its website as making “the creation of audiobooks more accessible to all,” by reducing “the cost and complexity” of producing them for authors and publishers.” Speaking as a frequent audiobook listener: do not want. [#AI](https://werd.io/tag/AI)

\[[Link](https://www.theverge.com/2023/1/5/23540261/apple-text-to-speech-audiobooks-ebooks-artificial-intelligence-narrator-madison-jackson)\]