Your next audiobook’s big twist might be that the narrator… is a (voice) clone!

Audiobooks are a booming business, but it’s impossible to imagine high-quality performers reading every book ever written out loud. To try to fill that gap, Audible, Amazon’s audiobook arm, is testing out using voice clones produced with AI to speed up the process. The idea of a massive increase in books with an audio format has obvious appeal but immediately begs the question of whether they would be able to match a human performance, or whether it’s worth pursuing

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