Today’s generative AI can create text, images, videos, music, and more. But one skill that’s becoming increasingly popular is the ability to create a podcast. Google’s NotebookLM is one tool that can generate a podcast that sounds like two people chatting. Now an app called ElevenReader can do the same.
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Developed by AI audio research firm ElevenLabs, the app taps into a feature called GenFM. Using the ElevenLabs Reader app for iOS (the Android app can’t create podcasts just yet, but that skill is in the works), you choose your source content. Here, you can copy a link to a webpage, write or paste written text, import a PDF or other document type, or scan printed or on-screen text. You then tell the app to create a new podcast episode.
In response, the ElevenLabs app chooses the …