AI and Audio Report

We seem to be approaching a pivotal moment in which AI-driven publishing solutions can help publishers scale audiobook production, expand distribution opportunities, and create new revenue sources. At the same time, AI tools are helping creators and producers writing their manuscripts, generating voices, editing audio, designing covers, drafting show notes, translating content into dozens of languages, and even recommending what content to produce next. The walls between human and machine-made audio are rapidly disappearing.

To help better understand the dynamics of this new scenario, the Frankfurter Buchmesse’s team encouraged Dosdoce.com to develop a new whitepaper, AI and Audio – How Artificial Intelligence is Redefining the Audiobook Industry Report, aimed identifying the main AI driven tools and services used in the audio industry, as well as to cross-reference the main business opportunities and challenges derived from the irruption of AI across various dimensions, including audio production, distribution, marketing, and even content creation.

The AI & Audio Report is divided into three main sections. The first section analyzes the growing ecosystem of artificial intelligence tools and services most commonly used today by audio industry professionals worldwide. Dosdoce has conducted extensive research identifying more than 160 Audio AI-driven tools and services from the creation of synthetic voices engines to simultaneous translations of audiobooks and podcasts into multiple languages, as well as technological developments aimed at marketing and advertising audio content, to applications for automating all kinds of processes in the pre- and post-production of audio content with the support of artificial intelligence.

The second and third sections of this report aggregate the opinions of more than 40 industry experts across the globe from leading publishing houses, to audio production studios, as well as distributors and streaming platforms, that have generously contributed with their insights about the main business opportunities and challenges derived from the irruption of AI across various dimensions, including audio production, distribution, promotion, and even content creation

Without a doubt, AI can generate complete audiobooks in days rather than weeks, supposedly reducing production costs by up to 50% compared to production processes using human voices, but the supposed time and cost savings are not immediate, as we will deep-dive in the Report, given that there is a learning curve and process adaptation that can take up to at least two or three years.

We hope that this report will provide the publishing sector with new ideas on the possible uses of AI tools to grow their audio businesses, as well as enough insights from industry peers to encourage them to embrace the upcoming industry transformation.

Thanks to the many publishing houses and platforms that have provided data and/or insights to be able to create this report. Special thanks to Audible, ANIARA.ONE, Akoobooks, Arabookverse, AudioFile Magazine, Bonnier, Bookwire, Clube de Autores, De Marque, Digital Publishing Report, EarSelect, Fameplay, FGSR, Grupo Planeta, Hachette, HarperCollins, Hoopla, Hörbuch Hamburg, Kobo, Kwalia, Lizzie Audio (EDITIS), Madrigal, Mensch Publishing, MiVoz, Nuanxed, Outside Context, Pan Macmillan, Penguin Random House Group, Posta, Saga-Egmont, Shimmr, The Future of Publishing, The Spoken World Podcast, Spotify, Storytel, Voxa, Yoto, YouScribe, Zebralution, among others.

Download Report: https://www.buchmesse.de/en/whitepaper