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Audible unveils plans to use AI voices to narrate audiobooks (www.theguardian.com)
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[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 days ago

I have mild aphantasia and human inflection/emotion helps me enjoy books. While AI might bring more audiobooks to market, those are lost on me. I might as well be listening to someone read a phone book.