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Audible unveils plans to use AI voices to narrate audiobooks (www.theguardian.com)
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[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago)

I hate so much that this has a 100% chance of becoming a norm. Narrator can make a mediocre book shine, or turn a good book into a fucking rollercoaster (Andy Serkis, anyone?)

AI? Not a great narrator. Its character voices are boring, intonations weird, pacing awful. I'd honestly rather get an amateur narrating it for fun, over a robot sounding like a knock-off Morgan Freeman.