[noufalibrahim]

A good human reader doesn't read as much as he dramatises the book. This conveys ideas and feelings more than what is just written. He takes liberties doing that which makes the narration interesting. I don't know if that's possible in the same way with an AI voice. I read to my kids often and try to dramatise the books in a similar way.

The libre vox project which is contributer driven audio books is, I think, a more valuable contribution to human culture than AI generated audio files

[klondike_klive]

When I'm reading to my kid I can respond to the situation too.

We're currently going through the Chronicles of Narnia, and are finishing up the second book (The Magician's Nephew). I'll do different voices for each character (I'm a professional voice actor). But we've noticed that close to bedtime it can have an enlivening effect so that it keeps him awake, so I'll just read the voices in my normal narrator voice.

[noufalibrahim]

That's sweet. The "negative" effects of being too good at your job. :)

[klondike_klive]

Sometimes he admonishes me for doing the voices too. "I said NO voices!" So hard to please :)

[systemvoltage]

Yeah it’s still robotic, I just tried. When enunciating long conjugate parts of a sentence such as “A long windy snow filled country road”, it doesn’t know that this is a one set of adjectives describing a country road. It’s a dead give away it’s AI. Maybe they can fix this.

[noufalibrahim]

I'm sure they will but even if they do and produce something that's exactly the same as a human narrator, there's something intangible that's lost. That's more or less my point. To make it even more intangible, I think the loss is greater to the narrator than to the listener as is the case with many of these AI generated creative pieces.