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> feared it may have allowed their work or voices to contribute to Apple’s development of synthetic voices for audiobooks.

Is this what the data was being used for? The article does not clearly indicate that.

> Lillian Rachel, a voice actor who deleted her Findaway Voices profile after learning about the machine learning clause, is hopeful of listeners’ faith in the human-to-human connection.

I’m excited for the day where I can listen to an audiobook from a computer generated voice that has the fidelity of real human voice. Perhaps intonation, veracity and speed can all be adjusted on the fly.

Often times I don’t like the narrators voice used in audiobooks. British accents are common and I don’t particularly enjoy listening to those.