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20,858 Public Domain Audio Books

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119 points smooke | 1 comments | 21 Oct 25 15:48 UTC | HN request time: 0.209s | source
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freedomben ◴[21 Oct 25 23:45 UTC] No.45663216[source]▶
I really love librivox for what they've done and their mission, so please don't interpret this as a criticism. It simply is what it is, and I appreciate all the effort people have graciously donated to make life better and information more accessible for their fellow humans.

That said, the vast majority of the recordings from Librivox I've listened to are pretty bad. There are some narrators that are decent, but many are borderline unlistenable. For those, an AI voice narrator would be much better, even with the current state of TTS. Is anybody working on an effort to produce these works with an AI voice?

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xattt ◴[22 Oct 25 11:44 UTC] No.45667630[source]▶
> … the vast majority of the recordings from Librivox I've listened to are pretty bad. There are some narrators that are decent, but many are borderline unlistenable.

Is there a name for this “value stuffing”? This seems to appeal to some form of subconscious hoarding. There is no possible way that you’ll listen to 20,000 audiobooks.

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1. yjftsjthsd-h ◴[22 Oct 25 14:17 UTC] No.45669524[source]▶
> There is no possible way that you’ll listen to 20,000 audiobooks.

No, but there is an easy way for you to want to listen to a specific 1 audiobook, and, all other things held equal, having more of them increases the odds of having the one you want.