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Audible unveils plans to use AI voices to narrate audiobooks (www.theguardian.com)
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[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

dont even have enough professional voice actors to cover the bandwidth

I'm pretty sure they'd be a lot more people ready to do that job if there was a good remuneration. Heck that sounds a lot more fun that a LOT of jobs out there!

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 hour ago

Sure but that's not how free markets work. If there's only 3 million consumers you can't afford 3 million voice actors but you can afford 3 million AI renders.