[crop_rotation]

It might be worse than human narration, but at some point the economics becomes so loopsided that it's dominance is inevitable. One good thing I can see coming out of that will be an abundance of audiobooks of copyright expired books.

[falcolas]

Are the economics actually better, or do they look better due to a lack of quality control? Because no TTS - even the most current AI ones - are perfect. They need corrections, which involves a human's time. And it's time that dictates prices, not skill (which largely reduces time).

[nazcan]

The key is just which time is faster. If you are able to just listen to it once, and note a few errors, and slightly adjust, it may still may be much faster to use AI.

[falcolas]

Based off Apple’s advertised times to produce AI audiobooks, the times are comparable. AI is not running quickly nor inexpensively for this task it seems.

[hedora]

The economics are only lopsided if the cost of producing the audio version is significant compared to the cost of writing the work of fiction.