Is There a Future for Audio Book Technology?

The use case for this type of technology in the short term is going to be to synthesize narration for tens of thousands, if not millions, of millions of people. And I'm saying that for a number of reasons. One is because we did just see Apple come out with this, which is called digital narration. Google uses this for their assistant for reading the news. Spotify wants to merge that so you have one license to the book in audio and written form.