Document Processing
The oldest digital library and a leading distributor of free eBooks, Project Gutenberg wanted to make its collection more accessible to a broader community of members, including people who have visual impairments and those around the world who might not have access to traditional libraries. To achieve this goal, the organization collaborated with Microsoft on an AI-driven solution to create audiobooks at scale, creating nearly 5,000 new audio books.
Reported impact
Compared to traditional audiobook production using voice actors or volunteer readers, the AI-driven solution provides dramatic time savings. “When we learned about this neural text to speech technology, the possibilities were obvious,” Newby says. “It creates audiobooks en masse, reducing days of volunteer labor to just 30 seconds per book.”
The oldest digital library and a leading distributor of free eBooks, Project Gutenberg wanted to make its collection more accessible to a broader community of members, including people who have visual impairments and those around the world who might not have access to traditional libraries. To achieve this goal, the organization collaborated with Microsoft on an AI-driven solution to create audiobooks at scale, creating nearly 5,000 new audio books. Project Gutenberg used Azure AI Services, Azure Synapse Analytics, Microsoft Fabric to support document processing with a governed operating model that connected the relevant data sources, automation logic, and employee-facing experiences without custom point-to-point tooling.
Data moves from connected source systems into Microsoft Fabric, where it is transformed, modeled, and stored for governed access before being served to business users through analytics applications.
A team from Microsoft approached Project Gutenberg about a collaboration to produce thousands of high-quality audiobooks using an AI-driven solution and then give them back to the Project Gutenberg community. These new audio recordings have made Project Gutenberg’s books more accessible to a wider audience of people around the world, including those facing accessibility challenges.
An AI-driven solution for rapid audiobook creation
Compared to traditional audiobook production using voice actors or volunteer readers, the AI-driven solution provides dramatic time savings. “When we learned about this neural text to speech technology, the possibilities were obvious,” Newby says. “It creates audiobooks en masse, reducing days of volunteer labor to just 30 seconds per book.”
Project Gutenberg first loads existing electronic books from its collection into Azure Synapse Analytics to allow working with large amounts of data. Then, they parse the books and use SynapseML distributed ML library to create audio recordings using the neural text to speech capability in Azure AI services
The oldest digital library and a leading distributor of free eBooks, Project Gutenberg wanted to make its collection more accessible to a broader community of members, including people who have visual impairments and those around the world who might not have access to traditional libraries. To achieve this goal, the organization collaborated with Microsoft on an AI-driven solution to create audiobooks at scale, creating nearly 5,000 new audio books.
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