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by rockemsockem 1177 days ago
Anything written can be listened to with this tech. Any news article, any short story, a draft of a piece of writing you're working on. There is too much text for human beings to read it all.
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> There is too much text for human beings to read it all.

so your logic is that all that text should be audio and people will consume more? Because I got news for you, reading is faster than listening.

When I said there's too much text for human beings to read it all I meant that it isn't feasible to pay people to read all text that someone might want to listen to into audio. Like a random blog written by someone in their spare time probably isn't going to hire a voice actor.

I think the case for having all text be listenable is pretty clear. We're all really busy and often our hands are busy but we're not doing something that mentally stimulating. This is an ideal time to listen to an audiobook, a blog, the news, or whatever else you'd like.

Oh yeah, how does reading work out for you while you're driving a car? smh...
And all AI bots are here to generate even more text. :( We will need to rethink and reevaluate lots of things that we are used to.