[jwalton]

All of The Expanse audiobooks were narrated by Jefferson Mays, except for the third book where they got some other guy to do it. Fans were so upset by this that they basically forced the company making to audiobooks to re-record the whole book a second time with Jefferson Mays.

I don’t think an AI is going to pull this off. Maybe with human help to tell it which characters should use which voices? Even then I think there’s a lot of “acting” in voice acting that an AI would fail miserably at. It might get 95% if it right, but I think the 5% would be off putting enough to make up for it.

[willio58]

I think in a case like that, it would be hard for AI to get it done right any time soon. But I think that case is kind of an outlier in the audiobooks world. Or potentially I just listen to a lot of non-fiction..