Generative AI firm ElevenLabs has employed the crew behind Omnivore, an open supply read-it-later app.
In a weblog put up, Omnivore co-founders Jackson Harper and Hongbu Wu stated that becoming a member of ElevenLabs would give them “a fair bigger platform to create accessible and fascinating experiences for critical readers.”
“ElevenLabs is dedicated to the developer neighborhood and the Omnivore codebase will stay 100% open-source for all customers,” Harper and Wu wrote. “This resolution ensures that the broader improvement neighborhood can proceed to construct upon and enhance Omnivore’s know-how.”
Omnivore customers can export their knowledge till November 16, at which the info can be deleted.
Harper and Wu launched Omnivore in 2021 with the purpose of constructing a read-it-later answer for — as they put it — “individuals who like textual content.” Wu and Harper beforehand labored collectively at Juvo, a credit score scoring agency — Harper was head of information engineering.
Omnivore is a completely featured platform, with performance like highlighting, PDF and offline assist, apps for the net, iOS, and Android, and extensions for each main internet browser. Omnivore additionally affords text-to-speech, powered by ElevenLabs’ voice era API.
“We got here to know ElevenLabs by integrating their ultra-realistic AI voices into Omnivore,” Harper and Wu wrote. “Quickly sufficient, listening to articles and books with ElevenLabs voices grew to become one in every of our hottest options in Omnivore.”
With the the transfer to ElevenLabs, Harper and Wu say that they’ll be investing their improvement efforts in ElevenReader, ElevenLabs’ personal reader app. (In reality, they are saying they’ve already shipped “worthwhile updates” to ElevenReader.) ElevenReader, which launched earlier this yr, lets customers add articles, PDFs, and e-books and hearken to them in numerous languages and voices, together with the voices of actors like Judy Garland and James Dean.
One presumes that a number of of Omnivore’s capabilities will make their means into ElevenReader in time.
“Our crew is becoming a member of ElevenLabs to assist drive the way forward for accessible studying and listening with ElevenReader,” Harper and Wu stated. “We’re exhausting at work guaranteeing an accessible, vivid future for readers in all places.”
ElevenLabs, which grew to become a unicorn earlier this yr after elevating $80 million from traders together with Andreessen Horowitz, makes most of its cash by means of AI instruments to generate artificial voices for audiobook narrations and video dubbing into different languages. It’s being approached by backers a few new funding spherical that would worth the corporate at round $3 billion, TechCrunch reported this month.
