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Voice AI firm ElevenLabs is now letting authors publish AI-generated audiobooks by itself Reader app, Trendster has realized and the corporate confirmed. The announcement comes days after the corporate partnered with Spotify for AI-narrated audiobooks.
ElevenLabs, which raised a $180 million mega-round final month, began inviting authors to check out their publishing program by way of their app on a trial foundation final yr, Trendster beforehand noticed. That program is newly open to all authors as of at this time.
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The corporate confirmed the event to Trendster, explaining the thought is to supply inexpensive and accessible instruments for audiobook creation, which could have in any other case value way more to provide in a studio.
The platform itself goals to compete with Audible, which ElevenLabs believes gives decrease royalty charges for authors. Underneath its mannequin, ElevenLabs’ audiobooks can be provided inside its personal Reader app and the corporate can pay authors when customers interact with their content material.
Presently, it pays roughly $1.10 to authors when listeners interact with an audiobook for 11 minutes or extra.
ElevenLabs mentioned the typical consumer spent 19 minutes listening to the revealed books on its app through the testing section. Whereas the startup thinks that these charges are among the many greatest within the business, they may nonetheless change as this system scales.
At launch, the payout is obtainable to authors in the U.S. and for English-only titles. Later, it goals to increase payouts to titles within the 32 languages it helps for audiobooks.
The corporate additionally plans to create a market the place authors can promote their content material.
The larger alternative for ElevenLabs entails authors and publishers producing audiobooks utilizing its AI tech by means of its paid plans starting from $11 to $330 per thirty days. That is cheaper than reserving studio time and paying voice actors.
Notably, ElevenLabs has already powered different audio platforms like Pocket FM and Kuku FM to show textual content into audio content material.
The corporate’s transfer to develop into a publishing and distribution floor to host extra indie content material is in keeping with ElevenLabs CEO Mati Staniszewski’s plans to develop into extra client experiences.
