AI is coming for audiobooks, and that isn’t a completely unhealthy factor. However it’s a explanation for concern within the realm of audio titles and the oldsters who make them at the moment. Audible is making it straightforward for authors to generate AI-narrated audiobooks, and as in lots of instances of AI displaying up in a longtime business, there’s fear that the inventive of us are going to get squeezed out by the robots.
The priority is legitimate. In any case, shouldn’t the robots assist us do extra artwork, as a substitute of doing the artwork for us? Isn’t that backwards.
Then again, it’s clear that not each ebook that’s written can afford to rent a narrator, an editor, and a crew to deal with audio publishing. I believe that the extra commercially-viable titles are nonetheless going to work with the perfect narrators. In any case, they will afford it. However the middle-tier of narrators and authors may discover that AI is simply so low cost for audiobook creation that it’s not financially affordable to pay a human to do it.
In a way, customers will determine. In the event that they shun AI-read titles, the market will adapt. However will they? We’ll have to attend and see.
That’s the demand aspect of the equation. The provision aspect is already sorted. There are tens of thousands of AI-read titles today on Audible. Let’s see what occurs, hit play!