Auto-Narrated Audiobooks With Ryan Dingler From Google Play Books
The Creative Penn Podcast For Writers
Joanna Penn
4.8 • 745 Ratings
🗓️ 19 August 2022
⏱️ 44 minutes
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What is auto-narration of audiobooks and how can it benefit authors and rights-holders as well as listeners? What are some of the common objections to auto-narration and how can we keep a positive attitude to embracing change? Ryan Dingler from Google Play Books goes into detail on these questions and more. You can also listen […]
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Creative Pen podcast. I'm Joanna Penn, thriller author and creative entrepreneur, |
| 0:09.0 | bringing you interviews, inspiration and information on writing, publishing options and marketing ideas for your book. |
| 0:17.0 | You can find the episode show notes, your free author blueprint and lots more information at |
| 0:23.0 | TheCreativepen.com. |
| 0:25.5 | And that's Penn with a double N. |
| 0:27.7 | And here's the show. |
| 0:31.5 | Hello, creatives. |
| 0:33.0 | I'm Joanna Penn. |
| 0:34.0 | And this is episode number 642 of the podcast, and it is Tuesday the 16th of August |
| 0:39.9 | 2022 as I record this. In today's Inbetweenisode, I'm talking to Ryan Dingler from Google about their |
| 0:47.7 | auto-nouration service for audiobooks. Now, I gave an overview of AI narration in my solo episode 623 back in May, |
| 0:57.5 | but that was across all the different platforms and options. |
| 1:00.9 | So definitely go back and listen to that if you're interested in this topic as a wider area. |
| 1:07.1 | This episode is specifically about Google Playbooks Auto Narration, and we go into what is available in their currently free program, objections to AI narration, as well as future possibilities and opportunities for growth. |
| 1:23.1 | At the end of the interview, I will include a chapter from Your Author Business Plan narrated |
| 1:28.5 | by Mia, one of the Google Play Voices. It's just under five minutes, so you can see what you think. |
| 1:35.3 | It's for sale on Google Play Books and also on my Shopify store at Creative Pen Books.com, |
| 1:41.2 | although there is also a version narrated by me priced a little higher, so I have |
| 1:46.0 | human and AI narrated versions. I also have that for A Thousand Fiendish Angels for fiction. |
| 1:53.6 | This episode is sponsored by my course, the AI assisted author, which focuses on all the different |
| 1:59.9 | areas where we as authors can take |
| 2:02.3 | advantage of AI tools for writing and marketing our books. It includes the techno-optimist |
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