@Jennifer_Pinkley@zirk.us @GrahamDowns @bookstodon I have checked out Apple's offerings and I agree with your assessment: emotionless and flat. it is not what anyone would want to listen to if they could help it IMO. certainly much better than previous versions of text to speech but not good enough to compete with human narrators. Judging by the selection Apple offers only authors who really can't afford to pay human narrators are opting for AI ones. So I don't expect it to affect the #audiobook narration compensation rates for human narrators. At least I hope so.