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Melania Trump's AI voice is the narrator in her audio book memoirs

Melania Trump's AI voice is the narrator in her audio book memoirs

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With the title “Melania” the First Lady says that her audio book “fully uses artificial intelligence in my own voice” and “names it as the future of publication”.

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First Lady Melania Trump receives a little help in publishing the audio book version of her memoirs: artificial intelligence.

“It is an honor for me to bring you Melania – the AI ​​audio book – tells of artificial intelligence in my own voice,” Trump wrote in a post on X together with a futuristic video. “Let the future of publication begin.”

The English version of the book entitled “Melania” has a term of seven hours and is on the personal website of the First Lady for $ 25. It is available in other languages ​​such as Spanish, Portuguese and Hindi, with “other languages ​​soon”, according to Elfflabs.

The first lady's memoirs were published in the middle of the presidential elections in October 2024. The book covers everything from Melania Trump's life in Yugoslavia in the Cold War to her marriage to President Donald Trump.

In the days before his publication, it received great media reporting when Melania defended the right of a woman to vote in the book.

“It is essential to ensure that women have autonomy to have their preference for children based on their own beliefs, free of interventions or pressure from the government,” she wrote.

Book comes when Trump warns of AI

At the beginning of this week, President Donald Trump signed in the law that the cross -party law on the publication of non -matters of real and computer -generated images, which are referred to as “deep counterfeits” and are often used as revenge pornography, prohibited and punished.

The First Lady was present at the signing and spoke about the potential dangers of artificial intelligence.

“Artificial intelligence and social media are the digital sweets for the next generation, sweet, addicted and constructed to influence the connectivity development of our children,” she said. “But in contrast to sugar, these new technologies can create convictions and unfortunately influence the emotions and even be fatal.”

AI narrative discussed discussed

The publication of Melania Trump's audio book, which is told by artificial intelligence, is a debate about the use of the technology for the narrative.

At the beginning of this month, Audible in the possession of Amazon announced that it was intended to tell AI technology about “selected partnerships” in order to tell audio books.

“We bring new audio books to life through our own fully integrated, end-to-end-ki production technology,” Audible said in a press release.

The company said that the Move advantage enables the publishers of audio books to be distributed more easily in different languages ​​such as English, Spanish, French and Italian.

But some writers, translators and language actors criticized the step. According to Guardian, Joanne Harris, author “Chocolat” said that the move of the Audible was “short -sighted”.

“In an age of falling literacy, I can't imagine that people have to hear audiobooks entirely,” said Harris. “This short -sighted scheme reduces what we love in storytelling in order to provide the easy provision of code.”

Another critic told the Guardian that human audiobers, including Meryl Streep and Tom Hanks, “actively sell audio content by being good in their work”.

“The art – and it is an art – a good audio book is the crack in the voice in a moment unexpected emotions, the wryness of the good comedy or the unbelief that a listener feels when a person can be convincingly a whole series of characters,” said Kristin Atherton to The Outlet.

Contribution: Swapna Venugopal Ramaswamy, USA Today

Fernando Cervantes Jr. is a trendy news reporter for USA Today. Reach it at fernando.cervantes@gannett.com and follow it on x @fernn_cerv_.

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