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Audible unveils plans to use AI voices to narrate audiobooks (www.theguardian.com)
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[–] ThePowerOfGeek@lemmy.world 7 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Welp, there's goes another career group.

[–] voidspace@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I did voiceovers and book narrations for some years. (Still do the latter at Librivox.)

I'm biased, but there is clearly a quality in the human voice that AI will never capture.

[–] ThePowerOfGeek@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago

I agree with you. And I really hope human voice acting and voice-overs remain a thing. It irritates me when I find an interesting YouTube video and then it's clear that the narration is being done using an AI voice. The quality of them is improving, but they are still pretty obvious. Give me an actual human narrator every time.