AI BriefingBibliothèque Sonore Romande Expands Civic Participation with ElevenLabs Adoption
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Switzerland's BSR adopted **ElevenLabs** to speed up production and improve accessibility of audiobooks and essential information for the visually impaired.
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Bibliothèque Sonore Romande (BSR), founded in Lausanne, Switzerland, is a nonprofit foundation providing more than 38,000 books for people who are visually impaired or have reading disabilities.
BSR is using ElevenLabs Studio to convert French-language EPUB files into audiobooks. Over the past year, this has enabled the production of 20 audiobooks, 11 regional magazines, and 10 Swiss public voting guides.
The adoption of ElevenLabs makes a difference especially in the following areas:
- Time-sensitive content: It has shortened the production time for voting guides with legal deadlines or educational books from what used to take several weeks to just a few days.
- Content that is difficult to produce: It enables consistent, reliable production of long legal documents, technical documents, and repetitive low-demand publications that volunteers tend to avoid, all with consistent quality.
BSR plans to keep expanding its catalog by combining volunteer-based production methods with AI-generated titles. Through this, it aims to further strengthen access to information that users need to fully participate in society.
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