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Re:Amazon Wants to Extend Its Dominance in Audiobooks by sethgecko on Wednesday February 07, 2018 @08:31AM (#16324218)
Maybe at some point they will decide to use their Wavenet[0] for audiobook narrating

[0] https://deepmind.com/blog/wavenet-generative-model-raw-audio...

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Re:Amazon Wants to Extend Its Dominance in Audiobooks by ihsw2 on Wednesday February 07, 2018 @08:45AM (#16324302)
But the narration is half the reason I pay for audiobooks -- it's an immersive experience and the variety in narrators keeps things fresh.

Fantasy books are notably that much more interesting with dedicated narrators.

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Re:Amazon Wants to Extend Its Dominance in Audiobooks by r00fus on Wednesday February 07, 2018 @12:39PM (#16326324)
Agreed - I "reread" some books (Diamond Age, Hyperion, etc) and good narration caused me to appreciate sections that I essentially "fast forwarded through" in print book reading (of course, I was much younger when I first read those books).

A good example is Altered Carbon - the narrator is Takeshi Kovacs.

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