Audiobook revenue has continued to grow even as book and ebook revenue has dipped, and synthetic voice technology has improved dramatically. Interest in automating the art of book narration has grown in recent years for business and technology reasons. “This is immoral and illegal,” Starling told WIRED, “Rights holders have the copyrights for the audiobook production only, but no claim on the narrator’s voice.” She’s pausing the release of three upcoming titles she planned to distribute via Findaway. Starling believes Findaway has misused the material that authors and narrators entrusted it with. Furlong says Findaway has not responded to an emailed request to withdraw all copies of his voice from Apple’s servers. Starling raced to email the platform to say she’d like to exercise that right, and soon received a response saying that the company had submitted her opt-out request to Apple. Findaway’s machine learning clause says rights holders can revoke that part of the agreement.

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