Let the AI tell you a story in the next chapter for audiobooks

Beware the audiobook narrator unable to convey bitterness or sarcasm. They may just be an Artificial Intelligence storyteller. Publishers are increasingly looking to deploy AI-enabled auto-narration of audiobooks and dispensing with the need for expensive, celebrity narrators. The rapid expansion of the audiobook market in recent years has resulted in technology start-up companies offering automated narration services which they promise will cut costs and sound authentic. DeepZen for example, a British company, offers authors and publishers the opportunity to have their books read by a voice "licensed and cloned" from a human narrator -- with a 50,000-word book costing about £600.