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Audible unveils plans to use AI voices to narrate audiobooks (www.theguardian.com)
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[–] -5 points 1 year ago (1 child)

For fiction, yeah, that's true. For nonfiction, this could work pretty well.

I'm still generally opposed to it because it's using the work of existing voice recording without compensation, though.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago

    nonfiction, this could work pretty well.

    Only in rare cases.

    If you have for example some explanations to a complex topic, then a super emotionless voice would still make you hate it and block you from learning it. Even the most dry and hard topics need some good and alive voice in explanations.

    If it is just some reference list, where you need to search and hear small parts of it, then it could be Ok.

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