- As a member of the generation raised screaming “REPRESENTATIVE” into our phones, there’s nothing we like more than listening to robots
- The nuances in tone, the landing of a punchline, the twin joys of reading out loud and listening to what is being read. These are human traits and human pleasures and AI cannot deliver it - only imitate. What next? AI written books and poems? www.theguardian.com/books/2025/m...
- yeah this is nuts. voice talent for audiobooks can’t be that expensive unless you’re trying to audiobook absolute slop. a-ha
- I guess this might be attractive to the self-pub crowd and maybe there’s space there it makes sense.
- my guess is they’ve dug up some ream of old texts that they think has decent audiobook potential but they have yet to apply a voice actor applied to it - like hours of slop for the indiscriminate listener
- but that would be like listening to static
- I couldn’t do it, but I don’t audiobook anyway
- It’s not my favorite, no, specifically because I can’t stand the slight weirdnesses in some narrators. A robot one would drive me insaneMay 14, 2025 12:03
