Comment on Audible unveils plans to use AI voices to narrate audiobooks

utopiah@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

• Evotech@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Idk, they have pretty good stats that nobody will listen to an audio book if they don’t like the narrator, so being able to choose your own narrator on the fly isn’t really shitty

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  • utopiah@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Enshittification isn’t adding new features that people want, it’s gradually lowering the quality of the product. So here is Audible is solely adding more possibilities, never at the cost of higher quality ones degrading, then indeed I’m wrong.

    If though they hire less people to do good voice acting, then it’s really shitty.

    I genuinely hope I’m wrong and they are ONLY adding new capabilities… but my entire experience with capitalism is that obtaining a monopolistic position is not done to improve quality but rather to increase margins regardless of how.

    We’ll see!

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    • utopiah@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Meanwhile… lemmy.world/post/29676416?scrollToComments=true

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