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40,000 AI-narrated audiobooks flood Audible, dividing authors and listeners (www.techspot.com)
submitted 6 months ago by ptz@dubvee.org to c/audiobooks@literature.cafe
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I definitely do not want to support this practice, but there's no way to filter these out ๐Ÿ˜ .

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[โ€“] ptz@dubvee.org 7 points 6 months ago

TTS already exists for the visually impaired. Amazon can use AI voices for that all they want (they're better than the default TTS now). Just don't sell me an "audiobook" that's not read by a person.