![]() Apple clearly wants a piece of that pie, it's a business move.Īpple Books uses an advanced speech synthesis technology which it says was developed by linguists, quality control specialists, and audio engineers. That's not all, experts predict that audiobooks could bring in $33.5 Billion in revenue this year. So, why did Apple decide to introduce it now? The audiobook industry saw a massive jump last year, it grew by 25%, which resulted in an influx of over $1.5 Billion. Amazon even has a premium audiobook service called Audible. It's a little odd that it took Apple so long to bring digital narration, considering that many services have supported it for a long time. Once the book goes live on Apple Books, the author will receive royalties from sales. The text-to-speech feature supports 2 primary genre romance and fiction, and some sub categories for the two. ![]() There are a few restrictions here, the service only supports books that are written in English. Authors who are interested in transforming their work into a digitally narrated audiobook will need to sign up with an Apple preferred partner, and pay for the service. ![]()
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