Let's put it this way: it's difficult for me to find the time to even listen to an excellently narrated audiobook. I'm not going to listen to something narrated by a machine without intonation if I can avoid it. But I had to suffer through one book (Disciplined Entrepreneurship, if you must know) where narration was so bad I wanted to drive my car into a tree more than once. Those guys will be replaced with a machine. The rest have nothing to worry about. The people described in the article are clearly far above anything machines will be able to do in the foreseeable future. Their professional work is closer to that of a theater actor than it is to reading the book.