“The addition of easy-to-produce audio versions could open up a wealth of content.”
Voice Over
Before we get to the implications, just how good are these voices?
If their grand performance distracts from the story or starts to grate, then they’ve failed.
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Jackson, the “fiction/romance baritone,” is better, without any repeating tics in the delivery.
It’s quite impressive, in fact.
I could listen to it quite happily.
Apple
And Helena and Mitchell, the “self-development” voices, are equally good.
The other oddity is that indie authors cannot submit their books direct to Apple.
If you go with Apple as your audiobook provider, it will be exclusive to Apple, says Bower.
But Apple’s AI audiobooks are only Apple," says Bower.
One assumes that some of this is down to the newness of the whole service.
Apple is still in the testing phase.
As for the audiobook voice actors?
If you listened to the demos, you’ll have heard how good these voices are.
It doesn’t look good.
