In a new audiobook edition of *The Odyssey*, Homer’s nearly 3,000-year-old epic poem, the voice of British actor Michael Caine delivers the story’s soaring opening lines, but Caine, 93, is not really telling the story; he licensed his voice to ElevenLabs, which used an AI clone of his voice for the project. A team of four producers created the 13-hour audiobook, which came out on June 23 and is available for free on the company’s ElevenReader platform, featuring Caine’s voice clone and a supporting cast of 20 AI voices layered with AI-generated sound effects and a musical score, put together in just over six weeks. The project, explained Jack McDermott, who leads mobile growth and marketing at ElevenLabs, is meant to showcase the creative potential of voice clones and AI narration while capitalising on heightened interest in *The Odyssey* before Christopher Nolan’s Hollywood adaptation comes out in July, starring Matt Damon, Tom Holland and Anne Hathaway.