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I reached out to him on Twitter [0] asking exactly this. According to a Reddit comment [1] it is, but they haven’t posted their source. [0] https://twitter.com/pwnies/status/1610857711008370688?s=46&t... [1] https://reddit.com/r/apple/comments/103iogu/_/j305eby/?conte...
I don’t think you got the correct Ray Porter. Correct one is https://twitter.com/Ray__Porter
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I think the cat is already out of the bag, and the death of human narration is imminent. The fight now seems to be whether this transformation happens only in production, or companies like Apple succeed in breaking the total Audiobook price apart into "license" and "production", only buying the license and have the production done on their proprietary servers. Overall, I agree it's inevitable that this results in a s…
One of the things I like is when the narrator has to suppress a laugh during a funny passage, or can express a character's anger or frustration. Until AI is so good that it can mimic emotion, I think there will be a market for human narrators. Of course it will be smaller than what it is now, but I think people will specialize.
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I guess this is more of a case of garbage in - garbage out. The original sentence itself is not well-structured. But people who write like that and don't edit it; won't care of how the AI reads it. I don't feel like this is a product for carefully producing audiobooks, but to create them by the pound, so to speak. I'd say it's a move for the "make your own business through audiobooks" people [1] -- very strange for A…
"Our algorithm isn't stupid, it's the literature which is wrong" is not something I expected to read today.
I guess I kind of wish they would just offer the AI narration as a feature of Apple ebooks. Such that, if you buy the book, you can have ebooks read to you by your phone. I am really just buying books off audible with the subscription they offer. There are some books (tech books that is) that are offered as audio books and I gobble those up. There are, however, many more epub/digital books that I never buy not becaus…