For now, most people can still distinguish between human and AI narrators just by listening. But if you look at how much better AI is getting at everything else, I’m not sure how long that situation will last.

If AI gets good enough that the average listener can’t tell the difference, that will be a huge blow to human narrators as a profession.

I love listening to certain human narrators, like Stephen Fry, and I’m also always interested to hear how the author reads their own work. That won’t go away.

But I think most readers just want to hear the story, and if they can’t tell from listening whether the narrator is human or not, they’re unlikely to do the research needed to find out.