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Is digital narration with AI voices good enough for non-fiction or fiction audiobooks? Can human narrators benefit through voice licensing? What are the options for sales and distribution?
Taylan Kamis from Deep Zen explains digital narration for audiobooks, and I share some samples from my digitally narrated books through Deep Zen.
Taylan Kamis is the CEO and co-founder of Deep Zen Limited.
You can listen above or on your favorite podcast app or read the notes and links below. Here are the highlights and the full transcript is below.
Show Notes
- What is Deep Zen?
- How good is the quality of AI narration for non-fiction — and for fiction, where emotional resonance is so important?
- How AI narration may benefit human narrators with voice licensing, and Deep Zen's Ethical Statement
- Where can you distribute and sell AI narrated audiobooks — and when will this expand for indie authors?
- Cost and revenue related to AI narration
- When will AI narration become mainstream?
You can find Taylan Kamis at deepzen.io and on Twitter @DeepZen4
I also included samples of my fiction and non-fiction books that Deep Zen has digitally narrated. You can listen on the links below:
- Co-Writing a Book: Benefits of Co-Writing. Digitally narrated by Alice (British female)
- Sins of Violence, a short story. Digitally narrated by William (British male)
If you'd like to listen to the entire books, you can purchase the digitally narrated audiobooks for 30% off using discount coupon: 2021 (until the end of Dec 2021) directly from me at Payhip.com/thecreativepenn. [Here's how to apply the coupon.] The audiobooks are delivered by Bookfunnel and you can listen on their free app.
Transcript of Interview with Taylan Kamis
Joanna: Taylan Kamis is the CEO and co-founder of Deep Zen Limited. Welcome to the show, Taylan.
Taylan: Thank you. Thanks for having me.
Joanna: It's so interesting to talk to you.
What is Deep Zen and why are you so passionate about AI for voice?
Taylan: Deep Zen is a synthetic voice company focusing on creating human-like speech and emotion using AI.
As a background, I was always int
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