Apple introduces new AI-narrated audiobooks which are somehow different from just using Siri
As I surveyed the ruins of the Twitterverse the other day, I noticed a link floating around amongst the ashes of Publishing Twitter in which a particularly aggrieved author opined about the future of AI-narrated audiobooks. The writer, Mark Piesing, was particularly aggrieved that an early review of the audio version for his non-fiction book N-4 Down: The Hunt for the Arctic Airship Italia specifically complimented the dulcet tones of the narrator — without, alas, lavishing poor Piesing's prose with similar prose. Читать дальше...