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40,000 AI-narrated audiobooks flood Audible, dividing authors and listeners (www.techspot.com)

submitted 1 year 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 😠.

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[–] GenderNeutralBro@lemmy.sdf.org 29 points 1 year ago (14 children)

One blogger cited in the report claimed converting an ebook to audio using the AI narration took just 52 minutes

This does not inspire confidence. The technology is there to do this very well, but it takes skill and effort. The technology to automate it end to end with high quality does not yet exist.

52 minutes. That's maybe 1/10th the time it would take to listen to it. I wonder how much of these 40,000 books were even proof-listened once.

[–] ptz@dubvee.org 36 points 1 year ago (13 children)

Honestly, I don't really care if the LLM can spit out a perfect replica of Stephen Fry with every inflection and intonation possible and in the correct spots.

Tools like these can and will be used to take jobs from actual voice actors. I want no part of it.

[–] Randomgal@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 year ago

I agree with the job loss part, but it seems like a really weak argument. What about the increase deals for the author? Many steps in progress lead to job losses, because the world changes. What's important is to do it in a responsible manner, and I think that's where Amazon is failing.

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