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

• joel_feila@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Yeah i can see worls of non fiction being a good candidate.

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• Nangijala@feddit.dk ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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.

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  • But_my_mom_says_im_cool@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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

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    • madjo@feddit.nl ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      There are Audible originals that you can only get on their platform. Audiobook sellers like libro.fm and streamers like Storytel don’t get access to those.

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    • Nangijala@feddit.dk ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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.

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      • joel_feila@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Its not that audible hires the narator themselves more like they just ways of putting writers in Touch with narrators

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• rottingleaf@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  With machine voice with no attempts at imitate human’s intonation - yes.

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  • But_my_mom_says_im_cool@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Hey for the deaf and people who need the info on the page, robot voice is better than nothing

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    • jungle@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Audiobooks for the deaf? Excuse me?

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      • But_my_mom_says_im_cool@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        I meant eye deaf

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      • madjo@feddit.nl ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Sign language books. Now there’s a hole in the market 😆

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    • lagoon8622@sh.itjust.works ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Accessibility and performance art are separate categories

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      • But_my_mom_says_im_cool@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Ok?

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