ElevenLabs on Wednesday launched a brand new characteristic on its ElevenReader app that may generate prompt podcast-like audio utilizing synthetic intelligence (AI). Dubbed GenFM, the characteristic permits customers so as to add any textual content or a YouTube video and convert it right into a conversational podcast with two AI ‘hosts’ voicing insights and attention-grabbing particulars from the supply. The characteristic is presently accessible totally free on the iOS model of the app. The corporate says that GenFM can generate audio podcasts in 32 languages.
ElevenLabs Brings AI Podcasts Function to Apps Earlier than NotebookLM
Google’s NotebookLM platform, which was launched in June, permits customers to generate AI Overviews of any doc or blocks of textual content in a podcast-like type with two AI hosts discussing the content material amongst themselves. Nevertheless, the platform is simply accessible on the net and is simply supported in a single language — English.
ElevenLabs’ GenFM characteristic seems to unravel each of those limitations with its AI podcasts characteristic. The characteristic is being built-in into the ElevenReader app and helps 32 languages together with English, Hindi, Portuguese, Chinese language, Spanish, French, German, Japanese, and extra. At present, that is solely accessible on the iOS app, and the corporate has confirmed that the characteristic might be rolled out to its Android app within the coming weeks.
To make use of the characteristic, customers can paste textual content, add a doc, or add a YouTube video’s URL to the characteristic and the platform will routinely convert it right into a conversational podcast. The app picks two AI voices from over 12 choices, and these AI ‘hosts’ learn aloud the content material of the supply and attention-grabbing insights from it in a human-like interplay.
The corporate highlighted that the characteristic was constructed utilizing ElevenLabs’ AI audio fashions and might generate a podcast in seconds. Nevertheless, the corporate didn’t point out the small print in regards to the AI fashions or the supply of its pretraining information. The corporate did spotlight that it doesn’t retailer consumer information as soon as the AI podcast is generated.
Notably, the ElevenReader app is an AI-powered text-to-speech platform that works with a variety of codecs together with PDF, ePUB, textual content, URLs, and even textual content in photographs. The app is free to make use of, and customers can even publish their audio for the neighborhood to take heed to. Nevertheless, the audio could be very robot-like.
