I think we
allknow why Audible, and eventually audiobook divisions of traditional print book publishers, will increasingly use AI, $$$. They (and especially their investors) would much rather not pay a human to do something if there's any possible way to avoid it. The increasing use of AI is the main sticking point preventing the resolution of a voice actors strike that began almost a year ago.
Does anyone know how much control an author usually has over the production of an audiobook version of their work? I can definitely see a (sad) future where most audiobooks are done by AI regardless of what the author wants. Only the bigger name authors may have the ability to push back against a publisher.
It's probably too early for there to be much financial data on AI "narrated/created" audiobooks vs human narration. If the book buying public rejects AI narration, hopefully that'll make publishers think twice about it.
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You can hand them a list of words that have non-obvious pronunciation and they have the smarts to stop and ask if they run into a word that isn't on their list.
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This! Not long ago, 2K games chairman Strauss Zelnick said that AI and machine learning are both misnomers, because machines
can't learn like humans. They certainly can't quickly adapt/learn like humans can because they're not "thinking" they're simply following their programming and training. To correctly pronounce a word, an AI audiobot has to be "trained." Corrections are simply not going to happen "on the fly" like they can with a human. This is to say nothing of the fact the data used to train AI is often obtained unethically or sometimes outright illegally.