Since announcing a beta tool last year allowing self-published authors to generate AI "virtual voice" narrations for their ebooks, over 40,000 AI-narrated titles have flooded onto Audible,...

I definitely do not want to support this practice, but there’s no way to filter these out 😠.

  • The Pantser@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    Except many books get read by the author or never get read at all so it opens new opportunities for people who wouldn’t ever use audio books or books who never will get audio version now vision impaired people have the option to hear them.

    • Admiral Patrick@dubvee.orgOPEnglish
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      6 months ago

      TTS already exists for the visually impaired. Amazon can use AI voices for that all they want (they’re better than the default TTS now). Just don’t sell me an “audiobook” that’s not read by a person.