Thread: Audiobooks & AI
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Old 04-23-2025, 07:13 PM   #6
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Originally Posted by rantanplan View Post
I think one has to differentiate 2 things here. Does anyone think that AI generated "audiobooks" can replace professionally narrated audiobooks? Not at the moment and probably not for quite some time.

Can AI generated "audiobooks" be used as a tool for people with visual impairments who couldn't otherwise access books that don't have a professional audiobook available? Probably yes.
There are already eReaders that use TTS (Text to Speech). My PocketBook Touch HD 3 will read any ePub to me (with several different voices in English).
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