An audio book is usually read by an actor, or the author, and often has a performative quality to it. I'm honestly not interested in anything read by a machine

An audio book is usually read by an actor, or the author, and often has a performative quality to it. I'm honestly not interested in anything read by a machine unless it's absolutely indistinguishable from a professional person, and current machine-voice-synthesis (AI or not) isn't there.