Apple launches AI narrators for some audiobooks (Link) https://sixcolors.com/link/2023/01/apple-launches-ai-narrators-for-some-audiobooks/
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>Apple is also doing quality checks
so turnaround time is listed at a couple months.
Interesting. this makes sense but I do wonder how #Apple intends to make money on this then. Quality checks on #audiobooks are labor intensive and take time. if an #audiobook is 10 hours long then it will take at least 10 hours (more if there are problems) for someone to check it. This costs money. On the other hand vast majority of these audiobooks will sell 0 copies. and unlike the App Store which has a similar issue this will not be offset by popular books with a lot of downloads. any book that can sell in meaningful numbers will have a human narrator and not an AI one.