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Originally Posted by rantanplan
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.
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I tested Google's so called AI audiobook generation. Hardly better than Kindle DXG or Kindle 3 TTS. Oddly no better at all than "local" TTS using Google engine in Android with Pocketbook. Both inferior to 3rd party TTS engine on an old Huawei Android.
That was 2010, nearly 15 years ago. I had TTS on DOS & Windows before 1995 and wasn't much worse.
AI TTS may or may not be be using "AI".
But no, nothing so far comes close. It may not ever because a good narrator undestands the text. AI has no understanding.