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AI-Voiced Audiobooks Top 40,000 Titles on Audible

While authors appreciate the new revenue stream, audiobook listeners are complaining about the influx of new material

The Audible application displayed on a smartphone — The Audible application displayed on a smartphone
Photographer: Andrew Harrer/Bloomberg

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By Ashley Carman

May 2, 2024 at 5:17 PM UTC

Hello again, and welcome back to Soundbite. Today I can’t stop listening to Sabrina Carpenter’s Espresso (“That’s that me!”), and we’re looking at what happened when Audible introduced AI-generated voices to its users. As always, reach me through email, and if you haven’t yet subscribed to this newsletter, please do so here. Tell a friend to sign up, too.

First, here are a couple stories I’m reading: