‘First Lady of Technology’ Melania Trump pioneers FLOTUS book with global enthusiasm

First Lady Melania Trump's memoir, "Melania", which debuted at number one on the New York Times' Bestseller List, will soon add new languages to the groundbreaking audiobook, voiced entirely by artificial intelligence (AI).

Mark Beckman, who serves as senior advisor to the First Lady, offered insight into Trump's work on the original, physical book: "I can tell you from firsthand experience, every single part of each of those books, every word, every image, the paper stock, all of that was led by our nation's First Lady."

The new version of the audiobook, which will be released on Cyber Monday, will be Trump's AI-generated voice in Spanish. In the following weeks, subsequent versions in Portuguese and Hindi will follow, opening up more consumer opportunities across the world. 

Beckman gave insight into the Hindi version and said, "When we launched the physical book, we had this overwhelming response from India. The First Lady visited India during the first and during the first administration and she's got a huge fan base in India. So we were getting an overwhelming amount of requests."

Direct approval and insight

In May, the audiobook dropped in a way no major memoir ever had before: the entire narration—seven hours and one minute long—was performed by an artificial-intelligence replica of multilingual Melania Trump’s own voice. Released exclusively on the ElevenReader app (iOS, Android, and web) and priced at $25 for the English edition, it was created by ElevenLabs using a voice model built with Melania’s direct approval and oversight.

The First Lady, who is the first major political figure to use blockchain technology and even created her own meme coin named "Melania", has embraced technology, but also painstakingly values authenticity. 

Beckman told Just the News, "If she went into the studio and just read her book, it would have been one-fifth of the amount of time that it took us to build out this book with artificial intelligence. The synthetic voice of the First Lady is uncanny. It's perfect. She worked on every single word."

"They'll hear on the audiobook that every space, every breath, every pronunciation of every single word she perfected through the use of artificial intelligence. Months and months and months of work. It was incredible."

Best-Seller despite snubs from fashion elites

The indisputably glamorous Ms. Trump appeared only once on the cover of Vogue Magazine, prior to her husband's election to the White House. She has never appeared on the cover of Vanity Fair, whose staff purportedly threatened to quit if she was so honored. By contrast, Michelle Obama appeared on the cover of Vogue three times as First Lady, and Laura Bush was on the cover of The Ladies' Home Journal and People among other titles.

The self-titled memoir came out in October 2024 through Skyhorse Publishing and prior to its release, pre-orders reached the top of a number of Amazon's best-selling books lists.

Landing on shelves only a month before the 2024 presidential election, the large-format hardcover mixes personal storytelling with dozens of never-before-seen family photographs and quiet reflections on her years in the public eye.

The book traces her early life in Slovenia during the final decades of communist Yugoslavia, her fashion-modeling years across Europe and eventually Manhattan, and the chance encounter with Donald Trump in 1998 that she calls the pivotal moment of her life.

She wrote openly about raising their son Barron, pushes back against what she describes as hurtful speculation about him, and offers small, rarely shared glimpses of life inside the White House.

She announced the project herself on X with a sleek, futuristic video and the line, “I am proud to present Melania – The AI Audiobook – narrated completely by artificial intelligence in my voice. A new chapter in publishing has begun.”