compared to the stock of professional voice actors who can actually pay attention to the rise and fall of a narrative. The actors union SAG-AFTRA and the Writers Guild of America are currently on strike, and a big part of the current negotiations with the entertainment industryHowever, ElevenLabs is promoting that AI voices can save publishing companies both time and money creating audiobooks.
Despite proclaiming AI voice is finally good enough for prime time, Lukeman agreed that AI “will definitely pose a challenge” for voice actors but proposed that “some” authors and publishers will still want audiobooks voiced by a real human.
with AI. With the strike still ongoing, it may take time to learn how the actors at large respond to an industry that’s looking for a way to cash in on the audiobooks trend, but without real human audio.