>You know once do you have reliable text to speech for websites and newspapers, podcast will be decimated.
Why? It's a different format. There's no shortage of text being read today in the form of audiobooks by people with a lot better voices than computers are likely to be able to imitate for a while. Also NPR stories, etc.
Re:Have We Hit Peak Podcast?
by Scoundreller on Thursday July 18, 2019 @10:28AM
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On that note, I’m really happy with The Economist’s word-for-word audio éditions.
And of course, gimlets acquisition by Spotify is probably the nadir.
You know once do you have reliable text to speech for websites and newspapers, podcast will be decimated. Or if audible goes a Netflix r you know once you have reliable text to speech for websites and newspapers, podcasts will be decimated. Or if audible goes a Netflix route.