Unfollowed Audiobook Café by Accessible Media Inc. because they promoted AI narration for audiobooks. The host just interviewed an independent author that released a full cast audiobook using 11 labs. I couldn’t even make it past the introduction. The host kept making a claim that it cost money to produce audiobooks and human narrators are not cheap, so independent authors can’t afford human their Raiders, so this is the only way to go about it. I can’t express my other discussed. Frankly, if I can achieve human narrators, there is no excuse. It really isn’t that hard. The host justification was that, well, it’s not cheap to hire human audiobook narrators. I’m not going to promote the episode, you can go look for it, but every time I see blind or visually impaired people promote AI audiobooks, I just have to ask, why do you still listen to human narrated audiobooks because clearly you don’t want human narrated audiobooks any more? I legitimately do not understand. #AI #Audiobooks #Audiobook
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VocalEye Almost Live #147 | Storytelling Showcase with Robert Kingett
VocalEye Almost Live host Amy Amantea is joined by blind, gay, disabled author of fiction and non-fiction, Robert Kingett.
Robert returns to the Almost Live space to share a sampling of his own short stories from a variety of genres including romance, sci-fi and fantasy.
0:00 -- Title card intro
1:10 -- Land Acknowledgement
4:20 -- Pre-show Introduction with Amy and Fiona
13:50 -- Pointy Chances
43:39 -- A Deserving Conference
1:22:53 -- Super Date
1:49:50 -- Conversation and Q&A with Amy and Robert
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Artificial Divide, edited by Robert Kingett and Randy Lacey (Audiobook Excerpt)
This is a preview of the digital audiobook of Artificial Divide, edited by Robert Kingett and Randy Lacey, available on Libro.fm at libro.fm/audiobooks/9781990086…
Artificial Divide
By: Robert Kingett, Randy Lacey, Alice Eakes, Anita Haas, Ann Chiappetta, Ben Fulton, Eunice Cooper-Matchett, Felix Imonti, Heather Meares, Jameyanne Fuller, Jamieson Wolf, Lawrence Gunther, M. Leona Godin, Melissa Yuan-Innes, Niki White, Rebecca Blaevoet & Tessa Soderberg
Narrated by: Nathan Frechette, Jameyanne Fuller, Alice Eakes, Anita Haas, M. Leona Godin & Niki White
Length: 6 hours 32 minutes
Description:
Step into a world of rogue screen readers, Braille in fantasy worlds, a friend meeting an acquaintance after several years, and more.
This #OwnVoices anthology features fiction by Blind and visually impaired authors showing readers how they thrive, hurt, get revenge, outsmart bullies, or go on epic adventures. Artificial Divide is an own-voices story collection that captures the many layers of Blindness and, for once, puts visually impaired protagonists in the driver's seat, letting us glimpse their lives.
When we think about it, we're not really divided.
I have mixed feelings about this.
Apple quietly launches a catalog of #books narrated by #AI on its Books app, in a move that publishers, authors, and agents warn may upend the #audiobook market.
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Death of the narrator? Apple unveils suite of AI-voiced audiobooks
Exclusive: tech firm quietly launches new audiobook catalogue narrated by AI – but move expected to spark backlashLeyland Cecco (The Guardian)
#AmListening to Year of the Tiger by Alice Wong. An incredible #memoir by a #disability #activist and all around interesting woman. Always appreciate real world stories of Asian women being productively angry and having a great sense of humor.
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Publication day!!
Great to see lots of people have preordered! Grab your copy from:
books2read.com/jungletastic (ebook and audiobook)
mybook.to/junglecolour (colour paperback)
mybook.to/jungletasticbw (black and white paperback)
QOTD: Do you prefer colour paperbacks to black-and-white ones, even though they're pricier?
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