I definitely do not want to support this practice, but there’s no way to filter these out 😠.

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    6 months ago

    Lol, there is no sweetening the deal. Every one of those is a lost job opportunity for an actual voice actor.

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      Except many books get read by the author or never get read at all so it opens new opportunities for people who wouldn’t ever use audio books or books who never will get audio version now vision impaired people have the option to hear them.

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        TTS already exists for the visually impaired. Amazon can use AI voices for that all they want (they’re better than the default TTS now). Just don’t sell me an “audiobook” that’s not read by a person.