- Such an absolutely horrible decision from Audible, on so many levels.
- Hate this a lot. Value human creators, writers, artists, narrators, editors -- everyone in the chain of making a book and putting it out into the world should be a human being. Humans make art for humans. P.S. fuck AI -- eat shit, artbarf robots www.theguardian.com/books/2025/m...
- Yeah, I don't want an ai voice for that. Hopefully it's not only flagged for any impacted titles, but also has a filter so I can never see them
- They've been doing this for more than a year now. It's always smaller writers who get the "virtual voice" (VV) treatment by Amazon. I would never buy them due to the awful VV, and Amazon throws them at you as part of your Audible membership for free, showing just how much they value those works...
- They could pair up people looking to get into audiobook narration with new editors/producers and the lesser-known works -- but instead, they turned it into a shit-factory of VV.
