Frankly I wonder if professionally-produced audiobooks are even going to exist in five or ten years. I'm a huge audiobook consumer and lately I've been consumin

Frankly I wonder if professionally-produced audiobooks are even going to exist in five or ten years. I'm a huge audiobook consumer and lately I've been consuming the entire HP Lovecraft bibliography, as narrated by AI-voice Dagoth Ur. It's every bit as good as a real narrator and when these AI voice models can run on local hardware I'm never buying another audiobook again. It's going to be incredible for books that never got an audiobook version, or whose audiobook recording is very old and poor quality, or just authors that picked a really annoying narrator.