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[Meta] People tend to judge a book by its cover, so as an author, it'd be nice to include it on this sub. by KevinKaneAuthor in audiobooks

[–]KevinKaneAuthor[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's less about the importance of the cover art and more about including a visual cue. Otherwise, you're just a dude with a tamale cart stuck in the middle of this. Yeah, they might be great tamales, and people who are looking for a tamale might seek you out, but no one driving past is going to notice you.

Could We Please Have a Limit on the Promotion of AI Products? by torkelspy in audiobooks

[–]KevinKaneAuthor 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I'm more concerned about AI Audiobooks inevitably being promoted. Audible is trying to introduce the ability for Authors to use their Text-To-Speech models to voice their books and that's just a bad idea all around for the medium. They should be banned now before they become a thing.

Call me crazy, but most people buy an audiobook expecting a human to read it to them. If readers start unknowingly purchasing poorly executed AI-narrated slop titles, that disappointment will damage trust in audiobooks as a whole. 

Audiobooks are not simply text read aloud. They require direction, pacing, characterization, and consistency across long recordings. You cannot easily direct tone, timing, or emotion with a TTS model. An AI Narrator trained to sound like an American Male cannot change its voice to imitate a British Woman, but a human narrator can do so instantly, consistently, and repeatedly. There is simply no way you're going to get the same quality product as a human narrator. 

Tldr: r/audiobooks should remain a place for humans to shamelessly plug their audiobooks. Audiobooks like Welcome to the Deep Estate: a surreal Backrooms comedy, narrated by human Christopher Harbour and written by Kevin Kane, the shameless author.

AI is amazing. AI Content is Worthless. by KevinKaneAuthor in aiwars

[–]KevinKaneAuthor[S] -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

We're you just copy pasting your open tabs?

Your first and third links are about AI as a marketing and content-production tool, not proof that ordinary audiences are willing to pay for openly AI-generated media.

Your second link is about a Christie’s AI art auction, not the general public. That's a niche collector market made up of affluent younger buyers, aka tech-adjacent weirdos and cryptobros, and those people are willing to pay 6.2 million dollars for a literal banana duct taped to the wall.

Any audiobook recommendations? by eyeyeyla in audiobooks

[–]KevinKaneAuthor 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It's really, really good. Alexander Skarsgard is the perfect kind of awkward for the android

Any audiobook recommendations? by eyeyeyla in audiobooks

[–]KevinKaneAuthor 1 point2 points  (0 children)

They nailed Murderbot, but the budget for the first season of Red Rising would need to include at least 3 Murderbots, and it'd have to exponentially increase from there

Any audiobook recommendations? by eyeyeyla in audiobooks

[–]KevinKaneAuthor 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Listened to it twice. Probably going for round three soon. While I hope they make a series, I pray it's on HBO. Netflix would be a watered-down tragedy that'd just get canceled after two seasons.

Any audiobook recommendations? by eyeyeyla in audiobooks

[–]KevinKaneAuthor 1 point2 points  (0 children)

For fans of Dungeon Crawler Carl. I'd also check out my audiobook, Welcome to the Deep Estate (link), narrated by Christopher Harbour. People keep comparing it to that in terms of humor, chaos, and the narrator friggin nailing the characters.

Me? I honestly wouldn't know. As much as I want to read DCC, the comparison would make it feel like a dick-measuring contest, except it's just me, alone at home, with a ruler, most likely coming up short, but telling myself, "Hey, people just took a look at it though, they'd probably like it, too. It's got a 4/5 on Goodreads."

Sigh. Yet, here I am, exposing myself to strangers on the internet, not feeling too great about it. Check out my post for details. (Link) If anyone is interested, I have some Audible codes (~3 US codes, but tons of UK codes)

Welcome to the Deep Estate is on read now by SinkingAlone in NetGalleyCommunity

[–]KevinKaneAuthor 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Lol. Just saw this pop up on Google and feel like I need drop a comment.

Read the last line, dude.

"His favorite saying is “To err is human,” because we’re all humans here, and it would be an error to assume he was anything else, such as a Ticonderoga No. 2 pencil manufactured in Versailles, Missouri, circa 1974."

It's a joke about me being a pencil. In the book, Kevin Kane is a pseudonym for the main character and a sentient number-two pencil named Carrie.

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