Would you pay for AI audiobooks that sound human?

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I've been working on AI audiobook generation that doesn't sound like a robot reading a grocery list. After 6 months of development, I think I've cracked the prosody problem.

But I'm wondering:

Do you currently listen to AI-generated audiobooks? Why/why not? What's your pain threshold for robotic speech in long-form content? Would this replace buying $15-30 human-narrated audiobooks for you?

The technology is there, but I'm not sure if the market cares enough about the quality difference.

I would very much avoid any audiobook (or other media) that is read by automation designed to fool the listener into thinking it's human.

Well, if you don't mean deepfakes which are obviously wrong, then that's kind of a point of all the existing AI tech, isn't it? AI image generators, AI written text as in GPT, AI written code, Text to Speech technology... The goal is to get as closely to human level performance as possible and maybe even exceed it.

I would listen to ai-generated audio books.

I do so to avoid paying money. If I wanted to spend money I would buy the better product.

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