!audiobooks
@literature.cafehttps://www.techspot.com/news/102875-40000-ai-narrated-audiobooks-flood-audible-dividing-authors.html
Since announcing a beta tool last year allowing self-published authors to generate AI "virtual voice" narrations for their ebooks, over 40,000 AI-narrated titles have flooded onto Audible,...
https://newsroom.spotify.com/2023-10-03/audiobooks-included-in-spotify-premium/
Today we’re starting an entirely new chapter for our audiobooks offering by making more than 150,000 audiobooks available as part of Spotify Premium subscriptions.
https://soundbooththeater.com/shop/audiobooks/rise-of-kers-book-1-dungeon-in-the-clouds/
When Kers is reborn as a dungeon core, he finds himself stuck in the most improbable of places: a cloud. High in the sky and far away from the usual solid resources, Kers must face the obvious question; how is a dungeon to build itself without wood or stone? Luckily, Kers has the sarcastic (and […]
https://qz.com/emails/quartz-obsession/1850833708/audiobooks-reading-allowed
Reading began as an oral tradition, and now it's a billion-dollar industry.
Sounds exactly what I imagined Percy to sound like lol
A Guy Walks into My Bar Audiobook recommendation.
Before I start, this is an M/M romance.
One of the most wonderful British male narrators I’ve ever heard. His name is Shane east. I don’t know his ethnicity, but I was immediately swept up by him reading of one of the characters. This audiobook is a duet narration. This means that multiple readers are reading the dialogue of characters. It is not an audio drama or a full cast recording but I just love the male British narrator Shane East https://www.audible.com/pd/B08BTLV158?source_code=ASSORAP0511160006&share_location=pdp
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Audiobooks at their heart (at least in the form of "talking books") were made with accessibility in mind after all. Pretty much every new book that comes out is recorded as an Audiobook in some fashion as well. Audible exclusives always felt quite scummy for that reason alone, as it is restricting what is at it's heart an accessible media format.
I'm very curious if it's mainstream popularity though has led to more blind/visually impaired people being able to consume more books than before. It would be really cool if it has or has at least loosened that barrier a bit more!
Sharing audiobooks with duet narration
The below post explains the difference between duet narration and other kinds of narration, as well as provides some good examples to try.
https://jeevesreads.com/2022/09/21/romance-audiobooks-with-duet-narration/
I've heard people say so before about a few different books across different social media platforms I've used, but I wanted to know some peoples opinions here
https://libro.fm/playlists/romance-sale
Stock up on steamy audiobooks during our romance sale starting August 14! Sale ends August 20, 2023 at 11:59 PM EST.