ElevenLabs’ AI Reader app can now narrate text in 32 languages

AI audio startup ElevenLabs has present made its text-to-speech Reader app disposable crossed the world, adding enactment for 32 antithetic languages — including Spanish, Portuguese, French, Arabic, Mandarin, and Hindi.

The app, which is disposable connected some iOS and Android, was first released successful June successful the US, UK, and Canada. It allows users to perceive to PDFs, articles, newsletters, ePub files oregon “any different substance content” according to the developer, but that enactment seemingly doesn’t widen to files from Kindle oregon Apple Books. 

There’s a bully enactment of AI-generated voices disposable for the text-to-speech tool, including deceased celebrities similar Judy Garland, James Dean, and Burt Reynolds. The fewer I’ve listened to are awesome capable to debar sounding overly robotic. ElevenLabs said their respective heirs were “excited to spot their’ legacies unrecorded on” astatine release, truthful these voices are presumably licensed.

The scholar app is escaped to download and use, and won’t devour credits from the broader ElevenLabs web-based subscription plan. The institution is, however, readying to “eventually motorboat immoderate premium mentation of the app,” but is promising to person a “generous escaped plan” disposable erstwhile that happens.