Generative AI firm ElevenLabs has employed the staff behind Omnivore, an open supply read-it-later app.
In a weblog publish, Omnivore co-founders Jackson Harper and Hongbu Wu stated that becoming a member of ElevenLabs would give them “an even larger platform to create accessible and engaging experiences for serious readers.”
“ElevenLabs is committed to the developer community and the Omnivore codebase will remain 100% open-source for all users,” Harper and Wu wrote. “This decision ensures that the broader development community can continue to build upon and improve Omnivore’s technology.”
Omnivore customers can export their information till November 16, at which the information will probably be deleted.
Harper and Wu launched Omnivore in 2021 with the objective of constructing a read-it-later answer for — as they put it — “people who like text.” 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 help, apps for the net, iOS, and Android, and extensions for each main net browser. Omnivore additionally presents text-to-speech, powered by ElevenLabs’ voice technology API.
“We came to know ElevenLabs by integrating their ultra-realistic AI voices into Omnivore,” Harper and Wu wrote. “Soon enough, listening to articles and books with ElevenLabs voices became one of our most popular features 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 actual fact, they are saying they’ve already shipped “valuable updates” to ElevenReader.) ElevenReader, which launched earlier this yr, lets customers add articles, PDFs, and e-books and take heed 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 approach into ElevenReader in time.
“Our team is joining ElevenLabs to help drive the future of accessible reading and listening with ElevenReader,” Harper and Wu stated. “We’re hard at work ensuring an accessible, bright future for readers everywhere.”
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 AI instruments to generate artificial voices for audiobook narrations and video dubbing into different languages. It’s being approached by backers a couple of new funding spherical that would worth the corporate at round $3 billion, TechCrunch reported this month.
