Apple Quietly Rolls Out AI-Narrated Audiobooks

Someone wrote this comment and then deleted it, but I found it interesting:

> I both fear and yearn for the AI narrator who can just keep reading after the book is finished. OK, I just finished the twenty-one volumes of Master & Commander, but the author died before the last book was finished. So please use the rest of the series as training data to finish the last book, and then go ahead and generate and read book twenty-two to me also.

> As of now the result might be almost as good as the final season of Game of Thrones, which isn't very good, but we're early in this revolution.

It would also be interesting if every time you re-listen to the final book, the AI comes up with an entirely different ending. And every listener also gets a different ending from everyone else. Alternatively, authors with writer's block on their final book (George R.R. Martin) could have AI generate many different possible endings and then pick their favorite one to publish as the canonical ending.

I can't wait to see this technology improve so I can continue reading my current book of choice while I'm driving. I hate having to repurchase the book in Audible or otherwise and keeping the two in sync.

this is being discussed here too https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34256592