Apple S New Ai Audiobooks Are Great For Accessibility Bad For Voice Actors
Apple’s Books store now sells audiobooks read by AI-synthesized voices. Apple is selling, and accepting admissions for, its AI audiobook transcription service. The voices are sometimes annoying, but mostly impressive. They’re good for accessibility and indie authors, bad for human voice actors. Depending on your point of view, this is either a massive boon for indie authors, who could never afford to pay for a full audiobook production, or yet another story of artificial intelligence (AI) coming to take over the jobs of human artists....