Sad for the narrators, but good for the world. There are so many books I have that don’t have an audiobook version because the economics just aren’t there. Th

Sad for the narrators, but good for the world. There are so many books I have that don’t have an audiobook version because the economics just aren’t there. This is an easy way that technology can expand human experience. Even in situations where the author reads the book, I expect it will be cheaper to train an AI to sound like the author than to put the author in a studio for 50 hours (or whatever). I thought it was a really dumb ruling when Amazon was forced to remove the text to speech function from kindle. I also think that screen readers are hobbled to avoid this legal issue. I want to send any text through a narrator bot and have it read it to me. There is zero need to compensate anyone other than the developer who writes the AI (and hopefully it will have open source versions donated by developers). If I’ve bought a book, I should be able to use it as I like.