Thread: Any thoughts on real-person audio books and AI reading?
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Old 03-13-2026, 10:41 AM   #10
John F
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Originally Posted by rantanplan View Post
I think you don't understand capitalism. Amazon & co. will first buy a stake into all companies that provide tools for this task. Then they'll just do a hostile takeover, kill the company and make the tool unavailable for the public. Maybe you can host you own models, but that's just you, that 1% of the people interested in audio books.
As long as they don't raise the price, does it matter? All those companies get a nice payday and everyone is happy.
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