Artificial intelligence continues to be used, and from what we can see, Apple does not want to be left out of this new technological revolution. For example, just yesterday we informed you about Microsoft’s ambitious plans to integrate ChatGPT into its Bing search engine, and recently we have seen many other examples of common user activities in which artificial intelligence is applied in one way or another. .

Many of these new uses are directly related to the creation of content from scratch, based entirely on user-generated input that an algorithm must interpret to provide an appropriate response. However, we’ve also seen other AIs that don’t start from scratch. What they do is start from a broader set of information to interpret it and offer a result related to it. Explained this way, I know it might sound a bit complicated, but I’m sure you’ll understand better when we talk about solutions like GANverse3D and Instant NeRF, both from NVIDIA, which feed on two-dimensional images and create realistic three-dimensional replicas of them . In these cases, you’re not starting from scratch, but asking the AI ​​to interpret specific content and produce related output.

This is the case, as we can read in The Verge, what they have already started testing at Apple, AI for generating audiobooks from original books. I know many will think of a text-to-speech system similar to those we’ve known for years, such as the more than popular Loquendo, but as we can see from the two demos posted by Apple here, introducing said parallelism is like comparing a scooter to Ferrari. I know this may sound too categorical, but you will understand me better if you listen to some samples on the Apple website.

With this new feature, which is currently only available in English and for a very, very limited selection of literary genres, Apple intends to offer writers and publishers a way to publish their works in audiobook format without incurring high costs. the economic and time it causes to do it the conventional way.

Apple has some limitations, yes. Apart from the already mentioned about the literary genres with which it can be used (the company is already working on new voices to apply in other genres), the most logical and predictable is that the audiobooks generated by this system can only be distributed through your audiobook store, with a single with the exception of public and/or academic libraries. In other words, we won’t see them on Spotify, or even less on Audible, because Amazon’s service bans such generated recordings, only accepting human-generated narratives.