1. Dr. Marshall notwithstanding, are audio-first or audio-only book consumers contributing to the decline of reading comprehension?
2. I've heard some AI narration recently and it was not great. For me the issues were minimal voice inflection, monotonic pace, uneven "spacing" (i.e., pauses where commas exist, etc.). In this particular example, it's easy to hear the difference because the "preamble" audio was AI-generated, but the "meat" of the program was live voice narration. And the difference was HUGE.
Thank you for hosting this program and I look forward to exploring Spoken and learning more about it's capabilities!
While I won't use this for my main novels, having this an option for short stories is amazing. Thanks for sharing!
1. Dr. Marshall notwithstanding, are audio-first or audio-only book consumers contributing to the decline of reading comprehension?
2. I've heard some AI narration recently and it was not great. For me the issues were minimal voice inflection, monotonic pace, uneven "spacing" (i.e., pauses where commas exist, etc.). In this particular example, it's easy to hear the difference because the "preamble" audio was AI-generated, but the "meat" of the program was live voice narration. And the difference was HUGE.
Thank you for hosting this program and I look forward to exploring Spoken and learning more about it's capabilities!