Project Gutenberg continues to digitize thousands of books a year, Hart said. Hart’s grand plan is centered around one number: 1 billion. He scratched his math, based on various premises, down ...

Open book repository Project Gutenberg has turned thousands of its titles into audiobooks practically overnight using synthetic speech, available now for download or streaming on multiple services.

In 2022, audiobook usage increased by 70% in the U.S., and audiobook publishers had $1.8 billion in 2022. By 2032, the global audiobook industry will reach around $39.1 billion. Project Gutenberg ...

Project Gutenberg has spent decades assembling a library of free literature in text format to make it widely available for free, but audiobooks could make the material even more accessible.

To overcome these audiobook obstacles, Project Gutenberg and Microsoft have created thousands of free audiobooks that use neural text-to-speech technology to generate the voices.

According to a screen-shot posted at iPhone software blog App Advice, iBooks will contain many free, public-domain titles from Project Gutenberg. Project Gutenberg takes out-of-copyright texts and ...