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Generative AI companyElevenLabshas lease the squad behindOmnivore , an open seed record - it - later app .
In ablog post , Omnivore Colorado - founders Jackson Harper and Hongbo Wu said that joining ElevenLabs would give them “ an even large platform to create accessible and engaging experiences for serious reader . ”
“ ElevenLabs is committed to the developer community and the Omnivore codebase will persist 100 % receptive - source for all users , ” Harper and Wu wrote . “ This determination ensures that the spacious evolution community can continue to ramp up upon and amend Omnivore ’s technology . ”
Omnivore users can export their data until November 16 , at which item the datum will be edit .
Harper and Wu found Omnivore in 2021 with the goal of build a read - it - late solution for — as they put it — “ citizenry who like textual matter . ” Wu and Harper previously worked together at Juvo , a quotation scoring firm , where Harper was head of data engineering .
Omnivore is a amply featured platform , with functionality like highlighting , PDF and offline support , apps for the WWW , iOS , and Android , and extensions for every major entanglement web browser app . Omnivore also extend text - to - lecture , power by ElevenLabs ’ vocalisation generation API .
“ We come to know ElevenLabs by integrate their extremist - realistic AI vocalism into Omnivore , ” Harper and Wu wrote . “ before long enough , listening to articles and playscript with ElevenLabs phonation became one of our most pop features in Omnivore . ”
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With the move to ElevenLabs , Harper and Wu say that they ’ll be investing their exploitation efforts inElevenReader , ElevenLabs ’ own reader app . ( In fact , they say they ’ve already ship “ valuable update ” to ElevenReader . ) ElevenReader , which launch earlier this year , lets users upload articles , PDFs , and e - books and listen to them in dissimilar lyric and articulation , including the voices of actors like Judy Garland and James Dean .
One presumes that a few of Omnivore ’s capability will make their way into ElevenReader in clip .
“ Our squad is joining ElevenLabs to help drive the future of accessible reading and listening with ElevenReader , ” Harper and Wu said . “ We ’re hard at work see to it an approachable , bright future for readers everywhere . ”
ElevenLabs , which became aunicorn in the beginning this class after raising $ 80 millionfrom investors , include Andreessen Horowitz , makes most of its money through AI tools to generate semisynthetic voices for audiobook narrations and video dubbing into other speech . It ’s being come on by angel about a young funding rhythm that could value the company at around $ 3 billion , TechCrunch reportedthis calendar month .
