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Audible Amazon's audiobook business on Monday announced that it'll use AI-trained

on professional narrator's voices to generate new audiobook recordings.

A select US-based cohort of audiobook narrators will be invited to train AI on their voices

starring this week, Audible said.

The trained AI will be used to make recordings and narrators will have the chance to approve their synthetic voice for specific works,

as well as edit the pronunciation and pacing.

Audible says narrators who participate in the program will be compensated for any audiobooks created

using their AI voices on a title by title, royalty sharing basis. Visual Search is coming to the iPhone, powered by Apple Intelligence, Apple's

suite of AI capabilities, the company announced at Monday's Apple Event

2024. The camera control, the new button on the iPhone 16 and 16 plus, can

launch what Apple calls visual intelligence, basically a reverse image

surge combined with some text recognition.

If you use visual intelligence to search for a restaurant, for example,

it'll pick up restaurant hours, ratings, and options to check out the menu or make a reservation,

Apple sense. Or if you come across... to check out the menu or make a reservation, AppleSence.

Or if you come across a flyer for an event,

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