Oh, goody! I hope they use that TikTok lady's voice! It's my favorite!
this post was submitted on 13 May 2025
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Am I glad to have dropped everything Amazon.
I de-audibled my entire library, stored on Audiobookshelf and I’ll only buy audiobooks from libro.fm
This consumer says you don't get a red cent then!
It's already a plague on youtube where half of the docu style vids are AI narrated already. I quit them in disgust. It's so frustrating. It has eroded my perception of Youtube in short time.
I hate so much that this has a 100% chance of becoming a norm. Narrator can make a mediocre book shine, or turn a good book into a fucking rollercoaster (Andy Serkis, anyone?)
AI? Not a great narrator. Its character voices are boring, intonations weird, pacing awful. I'd honestly rather get an amateur narrating it for fun, over a robot sounding like a knock-off Morgan Freeman.
Well that's a great way to keep me unsubscribed. Glad I canceled my membership.
Save a profile in tts server, then go into read > tts settings and change voice to profile you saved. I don't remember but you may need readera premium.
Left Amazon a handful of years ago. Glad I didn’t entirely contribute to this. Saw that coming….
I listened to one recently that was using AI. It was kind of off putting because of how robotic it came off.
It wasn't the tone really, but I find that AI tends to not get human speech inflections right most of the time during active speech. And that can be jarring to me at least.
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