Alongside tools for AI-generated podcasts, Spotify on Thursday introduced a new, ElevenLabs-powered AI tool for self-publishing audiobooks within the Spotify for Authors platform. The company said at ...

Illegal, synthetically narrated copies of “The Hunger Games,” hit self-help books and everything in between are increasingly common on the platform. By Alexandra Alter By most measures, John Grisham’s ...

When Briggitte Suastegui heard about Christopher Nolan's film adaptation of The Odyssey, she wanted to go back to its source material. She decided to start reading The Iliad first but had trouble ...

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When was the last time you read a book? If you're like many Americans, the honest answer is, not recently. A new NPR/Ipsos poll of more than 2,000 adults found that only 51% had read a book in the ...

As someone who primarily reads fantasy books, I was pleasantly surprised how much I loved Andy Weir's Project Hail Mary. It's the perfect mix of science and humor with an engaging plot that draws you ...

Jean-Luc Picard is doing The Bard. Sir Patrick Stewart is lending his iconic voice to an audiobook in which he reads William Shakespeare‘s sonnets — all 154 of them — and “shares reflections on his ...

Spotify is launching Audiobook Charts for the U.S. and U.K., the company announced on Friday. Similar to the streaming giant’s Music and Podcast Charts, the Audiobook Charts will be updated weekly and ...

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I’m not sure precisely when my relationship with audiobooks began. At first, it was just a casual thing, a way to jazz up my afternoon walks to retrieve my son from day care. But sometime during ...

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The app uses your camera to recognize your place in a book and jumps to that spot in the audio version. The app uses your camera to recognize your place in a book and jumps to that spot in the audio ...