360in360 adds AI voice-cloned audiobook production

360in360 Immersive Experiences has expanded its Living Memories programme to include audiobook production narrated with an author’s digital twin voice. The first release is founder David Wortley’s 2011 book, now available as a 14.5-hour audiobook on Audible UK, as the company pushes memory-preservation tools aimed at future generations.

Why it matters: - 360in360 Living Memories is broadening from story-preservation tools into audiobook production, adding another way to capture and share personal histories. - The company is positioning the service as a social-good tool tied to loneliness, social isolation and dementia. - The first release shows how voice cloning can turn a handwritten book into a new distribution format while preserving the author’s own voice.

What happened: - 360in360 Immersive Experiences announced that its 360in360 Living Memories programme now includes audiobook production narrated using a digital twin of an author’s own voice. - The first title under the new capability is Gadgets to God: Reflections on our Changing Relationship with Technology. - David Wortley FRSA wrote the book by hand in 2011, and the book was first published in 2012. - The new audiobook runs 14.5 hours and is available on Audible UK. - The audiobook also has a new paperback edition, alongside the existing Kindle version. - The audio is distributed through ACX/Audible under a Non-Exclusive World agreement. - The Audible opening and closing credits identify the production as narrated by “David Wortley’s Digital Twins clone voice.”

The details: - The book reflects on five decades of accelerating technological change. - The book argues that technology should amplify humanity rather than replace it. - The audiobook is narrated by an AI voice clone of David Wortley, who founded 360in360 Immersive Experiences. - 360in360 Living Memories already includes narrated flipbooks, AI-generated songs created with digital twins, and virtual memorial galleries. - The company also launched a live production called “Monologues and Memories” to raise awareness of preserving personal stories for the future. - 360in360 Living Memories works with partner organisations to extend the reach of its memory-preservation tools. - Through its collaboration with BSMe2e, the programme has produced narrated flipbooks and AI-generated songs that use digital twin technology to capture and share people’s life journeys. - The voice-cloning capability is intended as a broad tool for preserving and sharing human stories, with audiobook narration as one use case.

Between the lines: - The audiobook launch shows 360in360 using one signature project to demonstrate a wider commercial and mission-driven platform. - The emphasis on continuity, memory and intergenerational connection suggests the company sees AI not just as a content tool, but as a preservation medium. - By starting with the founder’s own book, 360in360 is using a personal example to make the technology easier to understand and market.

What's next: - 360in360 is inviting authors interested in the service to book an initial conversation via an online chat. - The company’s memory-preservation portfolio is likely to keep expanding around the same core use case: turning life stories into shareable digital formats. - The audiobook offering may become one more component in the company’s broader Living Memories services for individuals and partner organisations.

The bottom line: - 360in360 is turning voice cloning into a practical publishing and preservation product, with the founder’s own book serving as the first proof point.