apple is hiring robots instead of people
to read to you Apple's decided that it's
easier to work with AI generated voices
in order to produce their audiobook
competitor instead of actually paying
the people who'd work really hard to get
their job done loads of new audiobooks
are set to be popping up on the Apple
bookstore with the label narrated by
Apple Books and that's going to mean
it's actually being read to you by an AI
because Apple decided it's way easier to
not care about people and hire them for
their hard work if they can just get
some synthetic voice to do it for them
different voices are being rolled out
for certain genres that are
interestingly only being denoted by a
first name like Madison or Jackson and
authors are able to opt into the service
and it's only available for books
written in English the voices are using
Advanced speech synthesis technology but
it's not completely clear if they're
based off of actual narrators and if so
how those narrators would actually be
compensated but it looks like apple
would rather keep us out of jobs because