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AI · January 6, 2023

Apple Books Digital Narration

Every book deserves to be heard

Apple Books Digital Narration launched on January 6, 2023 with 111 votes, #365 of 3,901 launches that month and more than 75% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 3 years on.

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What it does

Apple Books digital narration makes the creation of audiobooks more accessible to all, helping authors meet the growing demand by making more books available for listeners to enjoy.

Combining sophisticated speech synthesis technology with a talented team of linguists, quality control specialists, and audio engineers, Apple Books is producing high-quality, digitally narrated audiobooks.

Apple Books digital narration brings together advanced speech synthesis technology with important work by teams of linguists, quality control specialists, and audio engineers to produce high-quality audiobooks from an ebook file. Apple has long been on the forefront of innovative speech technology, and has now adapted it for long-form reading, working alongside publishers, authors, and narrators. For information on how you can take advantage of this new technology, see how to get started . Digitally narrated titles are a valuable complement to professionally narrated audiobooks, and will help bring audio to as many books and as many people as possible. Apple Books remains committed to…from authors.apple.com

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