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Re:Generate audiobooks from E-books with Kokoro-82M by anothermathbozo on Wednesday January 15, 2025 @10:36AM (#42712102)
Virtually every book I want this for has been around for 70+ years and still no high or low quality audiobook has been produced. How long do I have to wait for those aspiring top-enders before an audiobook can be made available?
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Re:Generate audiobooks from E-books with Kokoro-82M by Arainach on Wednesday January 15, 2025 @01:36PM (#42715090)
That has nothing to do with audiobook voice actors and everything to do with copyright and who owns the rights to the book (and whether they believe there's any money to be made selling an audiobook version).
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Re:Generate audiobooks from E-books with Kokoro-82M by stevenwoo on Wednesday January 15, 2025 @06:31PM (#42718751)
Piracy may have made some of these accessible by ripping the US library of congress recordings for the blind.
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