Amazon’s Audiobook Narrators Can Now Make Their Own AI Voice Clones

Plus: Meta’s AI scrapes the UK, Google digitizes your passport, Chrome syncs your tabs everywhere, and (have you heard?) Apple announces some new iPhones. Continue reading at 'Wired'

[ Wired | 2024-09-14 14:30:00 UTC ]
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