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Generative Artificial Intelligence Company Eleven laboratories I have hired the team behind Carnivorousan open source application for reading later.
In a Blog postOmnivore co-founders Jackson Harper and Hongbo Wu said that joining ElevenLabs will give them “a larger platform to create accessible and engaging experiences for serious readers.”
“ElevenLabs is committed to the developer community and the Omnivore database will remain 100% open source for all users,” Harper Wu wrote. “This decision ensures that the broader development community can continue to build on and improve Omnivore’s technology.”
Omnivore users can export their data until November 16, when the data will be deleted.
Harper and Wu launched Omnivore in 2021 with the goal of building a read-later solution for — as they put it — “people who love text.” Wu and Harper previously worked together at Juvo, a credit scoring company, where Harper was head of data engineering.
Omnivore is a full-featured platform, with functions such as highlighting, PDF and offline support, apps for web, iOS and Android, and extensions for every major web browser. Omnivore also offers a text-to-speech feature, powered by ElevenLabs’ audio generation API.
“We got to know ElevenLabs by incorporating hyper-realistic AI voices into Omnivore,” Harper Wu wrote. “Listening to articles and books in ElevenLabs’ voices has quickly become one of our most popular features in Omnivore.”
With the move to ElevenLabs, Harper and Wu say they will invest their development efforts into ElevenReader, ElevenLabs’ reader app. (In fact, they say they’ve already shipped “valuable updates” to ElevenReader.) ElevenReader, which launched earlier this year, lets users upload and listen to articles, PDFs, and e-books in different languages and voices, including the voices of actors like Judy Garland and James Dean.
One assumes that a few of Omnivore’s abilities will make their way into ElevenReader in time.
“Our team is joining ElevenLabs to help drive the future of accessible reading and listening with ElevenReader,” said Harper Wu. “We are working hard to ensure a bright future that is accessible to readers everywhere.”
ElevenLabs, which became a unicorn earlier this year after raising $80 million from investors including Andreessen Horowitz, makes most of its money through artificial intelligence tools to generate artificial voices for audiobook narrations and dub video into other languages. TechCrunch reported this month that backers have approached it about a new funding round that could value the company at about $3 billion.
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