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Audible unveils plans to use AI voices to narrate audiobooks
(www.theguardian.com)
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this post was submitted on 13 May 2025
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YouTube is crawling with it. It's unlistenable shit. The prosody is badly implemented, pronunciation is infuriatingly bad, and a lot of the text that these TTS are reading appears to be AI-generated. Otherwise, already dire standards of literacy are getting worse at an accelerating rate.
like how fans got obssessed with AI generated DBZ(what ifs)