Wow this must be my night I'm now up to 6 #VirtualVoice titles in my browsing on #Audible.com
Oh, nooooo, oh, noooo, oh, noooooo! The future is now and I'm not sure I like it. I grant you it may perhaps hasten our access to books in audio form but still if we don't love the #virtualVoice they've chosen it can be a rough go. I suppose the same could be said of human narrators too. Still if I don't love a narrator I at least can take solace in the fact that someone is hopefully earning a living. I just ran into my first "virtual voice" title on #Audible.com The other sad thing is the virtual voice used for this one is also now showing up on those spam calls I get about all of my fictitious loan applications don't ya know. Talk about a bad association. #OyVey #Books #AudioBooks

NEW BLOG POST: I've been working with Amazon's Virtual Voice technology for well over a year now as an author and publisher. Want to know what I think of it? Here's your chance!

https://vortex-1.blogspot.com/2025/06/my-thoughts-on-amazons-virtual-voice.html

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My Thoughts on Amazon's Virtual Voice Technology after a Year of Using it as an Author and Publisher

 As many of you may already know, I've been participating in the beta program for Amazon's Virtual Voice technology via its Kindle Direct Pu...

Trying Amazon's #VirtualVoice to make an audiobook out of one of my books. Yes, I'd hire people. I tried through ACX but had no bites for royalty-share. So, I'll give the bot a try :)

https://www.audible.com/pd/B0CPPBBZRM

Burgundy Wolf: The Case of the One Eyed Woman

Check out this great listen on Audible.com. Burgundy Wolf, a private detective working the streets, slums, and sky-rises of Heartbeat City, sits in his office with his trusty dog, waiting for the next case to arrive. A knock on the door. The corpse of a woman with a bullet through one eye. A phone...

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Self-Publishing News: KDP Launches Artificial Audiobook Narration in Invitation-Only Beta

Amazon's artificial audiobook narration tool will enable authors to turn ebooks into audiobooks using artificially generated voices.

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