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This Week in Startups

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Is There a Future for Reading Audiobooks?

Danny Cevallos: I think we won't have people reading audible books in a few years. It's going to be good enough that we can get AI, and then you can choose your reader like we have with platforms like speechify who's a screen reader. But I think we're going to be able to make it so good that Barack Obama can read any audiobook you want. That would be sick if you could find one actor actress you really like or I don't know voice actor and have them in audible.

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