Opinion: AI voices for audiobooks is a strange new trend


The AI voice can record a book in a fraction of the time as an actual human, at a fraction of the cost, which drops the price from more than US$10,000 (RM42,465) to US$2,000 (RM8,493) or less, Publishers Weekly reported. — Image by Racool_studio on Freepik

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