About whether Project Gutenberg's AI-narrated audiobooks are high quality.
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Yes 35 (31%)Not sure 51 (45%)No 27 (24%)
Votes cast 1–2 October 2026: 100,590 votes from 9,694 people.
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About whether Project Gutenberg's AI-narrated audiobooks are high quality.
Votes cast 1–2 October 2026: 100,590 votes from 9,694 people.
In sampling a couple I would call these narrations "serviceable" rather than "high quality". My benchmark is the voice of my mom reading Shakespeare and Grahame, with intonation and voice to each character. Perhaps AI authored narration could do that, but these haven't.