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Originally Posted by salamanderjuice
I think AI narrating is more geared for books where it just doesn't make economic sense to get a professional voice actor in the first place. It wouldn't make sense to spend thousands on a real voice actor, a good studio setup, engineer, etc. for an audiobook that will be lucky to sell 500 copies. But maybe it makes sense to spend to a few hours and a couple hundred dollars on an AI service.
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No, it doesn't because it's cheating the customer, who would spend much less buying the ebook and that sort of "AI" audio book production isn't enough better than the customer's own TTS. Pocketbook app on Android using Google's offline speech engine stuff is far better than Amazon's on DXG, K3 or PW3. The premium "cloud" services are not enough better to justify selling that as a product.
However my almost blind friend much prefers human narrated, but finds the TTS on his phone OK for short stories, or a few chapters at a time, not the lenght of time he used to read. He can't afford audio books. I must see if he can navigate our local library on Android as it's free and only has real audio books.