{"type":"video","version":"1.0","html":"<iframe src=\"https://www.loom.com/embed/e3cdcd56c3cd49dfb1df194eb5a30668\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"1266\" height=\"949\" webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen allowfullscreen></iframe>","height":949,"width":1266,"provider_name":"Loom","provider_url":"https://www.loom.com","thumbnail_height":949,"thumbnail_width":1266,"thumbnail_url":"https://cdn.loom.com/sessions/thumbnails/e3cdcd56c3cd49dfb1df194eb5a30668-full-1654113881198.jpg","duration":193,"title":"Google Play Books Expands AI Audiobook Narration - 30 May 2022","description":"Today's Tuesday timely tip for authors. I was visiting the Publishers Weekly website and came across this article about Google play books and AI audio narration.\n\nI was intrigued because I had already been exposed to this concept, listening to the creative Penn podcast. And if you don't know, AI narration has changed and maybe you've already been listening to it without knowing it.\n\nNow, AI audio narration will never replace well, I would say it's unlikely to completely replace talented voice actors because an individual word spoken by a live person may have a different inflection than just being able to generate that word.\n\nHowever, with the improvements in AI narration, this will open up the opportunity for people to have books in languages all over the world, where now it might be cost prohibitive.\nAnd especially for nonfiction books. This is important. Think about the voice you hear in your head and the voice you might hear on an audio book version.\n\nAnd if that narrator is from a country or has an inflection or an accent that doesn't quite fit for you, if you could choose what voice you wanted, that might make a big difference.\nAnd using the Google AI narration option, many authors can now create an audio book quickly and well for right now, it's free and they'll be able to take that file and sell it other places.\n\nSo take a look at what Google books is offering for AI narration. Audio books are growing in popularity. \n\nPeople like me, I like to listen as I'm out on my walks and more and more people are doing that. And just so that you know, this often, if someone buys an audio version of your book, if they love that book, they'll buy it in other formats because they want to refer to it again and again.\n\nSo Judy Baker, with a timely tip for authors on Tuesday, you can find me at https://bookmarketingmentor.com.\n\nHere are links for exploring text to speech and auto-narration on Google:\nhttps://cloud.google.com/text-to-speech\nhttps://play.google.com/books/publish/autonarrated/"}