• Nangijala@feddit.dk
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    6 hours ago

    Sure, but it is still lame for a company like Audible to expect people to pay for their service and then they decide to cut costs by switching to AI voices. They can afford to hire actors to read their books. They have no excuse to go do that.

    Meanwhile what you’re talking about if books and stories that may not get to be picked to be narrated and well, I can see where ai voices could be a benefit in those cases. Especially for people with dyslexia.

    I just disagree with a company that sells itself on narrated books and then they go and have robots read their shit? Why should anyone pay for that? Because I’m sure their prices wouldn’t go down either.

    And when all is said and done, personally, I just prefer that a human being is reading to me. Especially if it is fiction.

    • But_my_mom_says_im_cool@lemmy.world
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      4 hours ago

      Does audible actually do the audiobooks? I assumed it was the publishers. Sometimes the books i want aren’t available on audio which I listen to while working

      • Nangijala@feddit.dk
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        3 hours ago

        I assumed they did. Maybe not all, to be fair, but I am pretty sure they have produced audio recordings of books in the past(?)

        Maybe I’m just tripping, I dunno.