Spotify Partners with ElevenLabs for AI Audiobooks

Spotify, is dedicated to giving authors the resources they need to connect with listeners and reducing the entrance barrier so that more authors than ever before may have their works heard as Spotify expands its audiobook library globally. They are thrilled to start taking audiobooks from ElevenLabs, an AI software provider that offers user-friendly, excellent voice narration technology, as of right now.

The audio streaming giant, Spotify said on Thursday that it now “recognizes the potential of digital voice-narration to grow and expand the audiobook market” and takes audiobooks that are narrated by ElevenLabs’ artificial intelligence voice software technology. This new collaboration is anticipated to increase the number of AI-narrated audiobooks available on the market, since ElevenLabs is already one of the most well-known AI audio suppliers. Through a new collaboration with ElevenLabs, Spotify is expanding the number of AI-narrated audiobooks available on its platform.

Digital voice narration from ElevenLabs is an excellent choice for authors seeking an affordable method of producing high-quality audiobooks. With total control over their voice and tone, authors may narrate their audiobooks in 29 languages using the ElevenLabs platform.  

With the help of Findaway Voices, one of our most requested services, writers can now distribute their ElevenLabs material to Spotify and a few other audiobook stores, reaching millions of new book lovers and listeners.

To be clear, Spotify already allows AI-recorded audiobooks, albeit there are a few limitations. Spotify’s audiobook distribution platform, Findaway Voices, requires each recording to be reviewed before publication and only accepts digitally recorded audiobooks from “specific partners” (it had previously collaborated with Google Play Books). However, one of the most well-known AI voice suppliers available is ElevenLabs, which may cause a spike in artificially spoken audiobooks on Spotify’s platform.

In order to submit an AI-narrated audiobook, writers must first obtain the file package from ElevenLabs and then go to Spotify’s audiobook distribution platform, Findaway Voices. After that, a review procedure must be completed before the recording may be released. AI-narrated titles are labelled by Spotify.

With a large variety of synthetic voices, authors may narrate their audiobooks in 29 different languages using ElevenLabs. Although there are a number of premium levels that go above this restriction, users must have at least the $99/month Pro subscription to produce up to 500 minutes of narration, which is about the same length as an audiobook, but the free version only permits 10 minutes of text-to-speech available each month in the software’s free edition.

The most recent collaboration follows Spotify and Google Play Books‘ joint venture to provide AI-narrated audiobooks two years prior. In order to grow its collection of audiobooks, Spotify intends to collaborate with other businesses.

The emergence of AI-generated audiobooks, however, is anticipated to spark intense discussion among publishers. According to some industry experts, these AI recordings might lower the overall caliber of audiobooks that consumers can enjoy.

Although Spotify claims to “firmly believe in the power of human narration,” the business thinks that computer voices might help smaller writers produce audiobooks at a lower cost and make it simpler to produce audiobooks of backlist titles that are otherwise overlooked. According to Spotify, book descriptions stating that “this audiobook is narrated by a digital voice” will easily identify and distinguish all AI-narrated titles.

How to add ElevenLabs audiobooks to Spotify in a quick and simple manner

• Authors only need to download the file package and send it to Findaway Voices by Spotify after producing their digital voice-narrated audiobook in ElevenLabs.
• The book will launch on Spotify and other platforms that take digital voice-narrated books from Findaway Voices after a typical review.

All titles that are narrated digitally will be identified for listeners in the metadata on Spotify and other stores where Findaway Voices distributes. The opening sentence of the book description will read, “This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.”

As previously mentioned, Spotify will continue to look for methods to enable additional writers and publishers to produce and share their audiobook material on Spotify, including support for digital voice-narrated content produced with Google Play Books. Make sure to visit elevenlabs.io to find out more.