I don't really care whether this chat goes to Elevenlabs or not.
This may shock you, but people who are doing reading for audiobooks, enjoy doing it! I'm not sure you've ever listened to professionally recorded audiobooks, but there are actors who are absolutely amazing at this, and clearly doing it with passion and love. E.g. Andy Serkis doing the Lord of the Rings books on Audible.
This clearly isn't a person chained to a room, just trying to read a book without stuttering. See also some of the Discworld novels on Audible which have fantastic narration and voices. These people are both amazing and passionate.
It's not and never been soulless labour. Do you think Shakespeare was doing soulless empty labor when he was writing Hamlet? Oh no, he had to spend weeks in a dark room writing a book, we should replace him with a machine.
Artists enjoy doing their art, whether it's writing, reading out loud, playing music. Artists don't want to stop doing their art so AI can do it, and then what do they do?
This may shock you, but people who are doing reading for audiobooks, enjoy doing it! I'm not sure you've ever listened to professionally recorded audiobooks, but there are actors who are absolutely amazing at this, and clearly doing it with passion and love. E.g. Andy Serkis doing the Lord of the Rings books on Audible.
This clearly isn't a person chained to a room, just trying to read a book without stuttering. See also some of the Discworld novels on Audible which have fantastic narration and voices. These people are both amazing and passionate.
It's not and never been soulless labour. Do you think Shakespeare was doing soulless empty labor when he was writing Hamlet? Oh no, he had to spend weeks in a dark room writing a book, we should replace him with a machine.
Artists enjoy doing their art, whether it's writing, reading out loud, playing music. Artists don't want to stop doing their art so AI can do it, and then what do they do?