Audible today announced three features coming to “deepen customers’ connections to their favorite stories.” Here are the details. Audible announces AI-powered character guides, interactive stories, more. IPadOS 27.2: Two new features coming soon to your iPad Ryan Christoffel Oct 1 2026.
The platform is rolling out "Interactive Stories" starting with Bram Stoker’s classic. Audible thinks you want to have an AI-generated conversation with Dracula’s beleaguered servant.
Entertainment Audible thinks you want to have an AI-generated conversation with Dracula’s beleaguered servant The platform is rolling out "Interactive Stories" starting with Bram Stoker’s classic. The first of these experiences will accompany the upcoming Audible Original adaptation of Bram Stoker’s Dracula.
The Interactive Story involves Dracula’s long-suffering servant Renfield. Audible says Renfield will assign the listener "a role, goal and stakes." The platform also promises that the "listener responds in their own words and the character reacts in real time." So it’s some kind of LARP-ing type thing, which could be fun depending on how well it’s done.
The generative AI aspect doesn’t give me much hope, but we’ll have to wait and see. A recent Pew Research survey seems to suggest that younger audiences are wary of AI, but maybe Audible has different data points as to what they’re currently "craving." The platform says this feature launches later this fall as a beta release.
It didn’t provide an official date, but that new audio adaptation of Dracula comes out on October 1. Audible announced the next Interactive Story too.
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