{"id":29248,"date":"2025-02-21T11:14:40","date_gmt":"2025-02-21T03:14:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/?p=29248"},"modified":"2025-02-21T11:14:40","modified_gmt":"2025-02-21T03:14:40","slug":"spotify-%e5%90%af%e5%8a%a8-ai%e9%85%8d%e9%9f%b3%e6%9c%89%e5%a3%b0%e4%b9%a6%e6%9c%8d%e5%8a%a1%ef%bc%8c29-%e7%a7%8d%e8%af%ad%e8%a8%80%e5%8f%af%e4%be%9b%e9%80%89%e6%8b%a9","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/29248.html","title":{"rendered":"Spotify launches AI-voiced audiobook service, available in 29 languages"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Feb. 21, 2011 - According to foreign media outlet The Verge, the<a href=\"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/tag\/spotify\" title=\"[Sees articles with [Spotify] labels]\" target=\"_blank\" >Spotify<\/a> is working through a new partnership with ElevenLabs to bring more<strong>Audiobooks voiced by AI<\/strong>Introducing its platform. On Thursday local time, Spotify announced that it would begin accepting<strong>Audiobooks recorded through ElevenLabs' AI speech software<\/strong>, and claims to see the potential of digital voice narration in driving and expanding the audiobook market.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-29249\" title=\"0143bb57j00ss0jne00bid000v900bxp\" src=\"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/0143bb57j00ss0jne00bid000v900bxp.jpg\" alt=\"0143bb57j00ss0jne00bid000v900bxp\" width=\"1125\" height=\"429\" \/><\/p>\n<p>1AI understands that Spotify has previously allowed AI-dubbed audiobooks to go live, but with some limitations. Spotify's audiobook distribution platform, Findaway Voices, only accepts digital recordings from \"select partners\" and has previously partnered with Google Play Books, which requires each recording to be reviewed before it can be published. Findaway Voices currently only accepts digital recordings from \"select partners,\" having previously partnered with Google Play Books, and requires each recording to be reviewed before it can be published.<\/p>\n<p>ElevenLabs is one of the most recognizable AI voice providers on the market, and is expected to lead to a surge in the number of synthesized voice audiobooks on the Spotify platform.<\/p>\n<p>Authors can use ElevenLabs with<strong>\u00a0<\/strong><strong>Voice your own audiobooks in 29 languages<\/strong>and there are several synthesized voice options to choose from. The free version of the software is only available monthly\u00a0<strong>10-minute text-to-speech service<\/strong>For more service, users can choose from several paid packages, but at least a $99 monthly Pro subscription is required to generate 500 minutes of voiceovers -- about the length of a regular audiobook.<\/p>\n<p>While Spotify says it \"strongly believes in the importance of human voiceovers,\" it argues that digital voices allow smaller authors to<strong>More cost-effective production of audiobooks<\/strong>Spotify also said that all books voiced by AI will be tagged with metadata and the book description will explicitly tell the listener that \"this audiobook was voiced by a digital voice\".<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to news from 21 February, according to the external media The Verge, Spotify is introducing more voice books from AI into its platform through new collaboration with Eleven Labs. On Thursday, local time, Spotify announced that it would begin to accept audio books recorded through Eleven Labs ' AI voice software and that it saw the potential of digital voice accounts to drive and expand the market for audio. According to 1AI, Spotify had previously allowed an AI voice book to go online, with some limitations. For the time being, only digital recordings from \u201cspecified partners\u201d have been accepted from the voice-based distribution platform of SSpotify<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[146],"tags":[589,2747],"collection":[],"class_list":["post-29248","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-ai","tag-spotify"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29248","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29248"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29248\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29248"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29248"},{"taxonomy":"collection","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/collection?post=29248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}