 Dear CELA User CELA is pleased to announce a new addition to our magazine offerings. As a pilot project a few of our popular magazines are now available as audio magazines, created using an AI voice. With AI voice technology, we are able to offer readers access to a human-sounding audio magazine shortly after the magazine is published. We will run this pilot project for one year using 5 magazines: Canadian Living, AppleMagazine and Newsweek in English and Lire and Coup de Pouce in French. All these magazines are also available in other formats if you prefer not to use the AI voiced option and we will continue to offer our popular 11 human-narrated magazines. You can find a list of the AI voiced audio magazines on our magazines page. In our catalogue you can search for the magazine title and filter the results using magazine, and DAISY audio options. Use the data added filter to narrow your results even further. You can subscribe to any magazine on the Magazine subscriptions page under My Account to receive new issues on your bookshelf as soon as they are available. AI voiced magazines are DAISY audio files and can be read in the same way you would access any other audio books or audio magazines, including in Dolphin EasyReader, on DAISY players, and Envoy Connect. Our goal with this pilot project is to determine if this option is one our users enjoy, and will use. To do this, we are launching a survey which requests feedback on our magazines in general, and on the AI voiced magazines specifically. If you are interested in providing feedback our survey is available and open until September 21, 2026. We know how important human narration is to our users and that in some cases synthetic audio can be a deciding factor about whether or not users choose to read certain materials. The AI voiced narrations give us an option to improve the experience of users when human narration isn’t possible or effective. For magazines, especially news based magazines, it’s important that users have timely access in order to stay informed and read the content when it is relevant. Our hope is that our users will engage with these magazines and provide us with honest feedback about the experience. We anticipate that CELA users will have questions about this new option. You can find more information, including answers to some important questions on our blog. To find AI voiced magazines, please visit our magazine page. We look forward to your feedback. |
Friday, September 4, 2026
NEW WAY TO READ MAGAZINES AT CELA
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