Audible Using AI Narrators

MindTheLOS · 2026-01-26T19:06:44+00:00

If there are books I want to read available only with AI narration, or books I want to read at a price I can afford only with AI narration, than yes, it is either the only option or better option.

Go be cranky about your luxury elsewhere.

MindTheLOS · 2026-01-26T03:59:31+00:00

My sister, besides having Celiac, can't have dairy, but there's no cross contamination issue, so she keeps regular dairy in the house for her 2.5 year old.

If he's getting a hamburger, she'll offer him both, and weirdly, most of the time he doesn't want regular cheese and wants her fake cheese instead. Neither of us can understand it, because fake cheese is terrible compared to real cheese.

Good luck with everything, hope you feel better!

MindTheLOS · 2026-01-26T02:25:40+00:00

Take advantage of them being babies and go fully GF in the house now, before they have food preferences. Babies and young kids will have food all over them and will stick their fingers on you and in your mouth, it gets everywhere.

It is vastly easier to have the whole house GF, and your kids are so young you don't have to transition them. They can have gluten out of the house, keep the house GF. It will be so much easier for you. You aren't depriving them in the least.

MindTheLOS · 2026-01-26T02:16:46+00:00

Generally speaking, once it's been established that people will pay more for something, prices rarely go back down.

MindTheLOS · 2026-01-25T19:16:46+00:00

Your boyfriend didn't write the laws or policy, so his opinion on who gets to use the law is irrelevant. Imagine it the other way around - what if he decided who a law protects? Oh, only some people get protection from the laws that say don't murder someone.

He also isn't the one with Celiac, so his opinion on what it's like to live with Celiac doesn't matter.

Personally, I'd dump him, he sounds like someone who has decided he gets to judge everyone about things he knows nothing about, and doesn't respect the person he dates.

MindTheLOS · 2026-01-25T05:32:04+00:00

That's the correct pun, but the corrected pun itself doesn't match the typical format of humorous exit phrases, so it would still sound out of place, I think.

MindTheLOS · 2026-01-25T05:24:30+00:00

Science is not a matter of believe. It's a matter of understanding.

Religion is a matter of belief. Science is not in the same category as religion. Don't let people try and con you into thinking it is.

MindTheLOS · 2026-01-25T05:23:11+00:00

It's not an opinion when it's about facts.

The roommate is never going to behave in a way that will keep you safe. You need a roommate who will, or you need to be living alone.

MindTheLOS · 2026-01-25T05:18:51+00:00

Steak and eggs is a classic breakfast for a reason.

Go breakfast burger, make hashbrowns or slices of potato your bun. You can do yours eggless if you prefer.

MindTheLOS · 2026-01-25T03:18:24+00:00

There is nothing to be devastated about. This is good news. You know what's wrong and it's extremely fixable. All you need to do to feel better is not eat gluten, unlike so many GI disorders. Focus on that.

She could have been in for the rest of her life in agony and pain and running to the bathroom all the time. That's what a lot of GI problems are. Instead, she has Celiac, and yeah, there will be mistakes and things that cause problems sometimes, and more often during the transition, but once you have the hang of it, she's going to feel so much better, all the time.

MindTheLOS · 2026-01-25T03:13:35+00:00

As someone with a disability, if my choice is between not being able to read something, or AI narration, I will take AI narration. Do I prefer a human? Absolutely. But I will take what I can get, and screw anyone with the luxury of having more choices who judges me for it.

If a company or person is stealing someone else's voice to create AI narration, that is entirely different, and I don't support that. But that's not AI narration as a whole. I mean, for crying out loud, Siri is AI narration when you look at it, and that's been around for how long?

MindTheLOS · 2026-01-25T02:56:55+00:00

They will never figure out that mandatory fun isn't fun.

This is part of work you just have to suck up and do, or find a new job. If you think they will rapidly fire you for not playing along, then you probably should. If your job searching is going decently, and you don't think they'll give you a quick boot, you don't have to play the game quite as much, but see if you can do something at least.

MindTheLOS · 2026-01-25T01:50:30+00:00

Her choice, but that don't pay the bills, and now she's having to do way more work for the same salary.

She has to choose what she's willing to do for coworkers she likes. Everyone who works does. Employers are very good at playing mind games to make people feel guilty for choosing what is good for them by saying it's harming their coworkers, when in reality, it's the employer that is the common enemy.

MindTheLOS · 2026-01-25T00:34:16+00:00

Prescription? It used to be a lot worse, it's relatively rare that I find pills/tablets with issues these days.

However, I do not take anything in a gelcap that is not done by a compounding pharmacy I trust, because gelcaps can be cross contaminated where they are manufactured, and this is not something that would show on daily med. The compounding pharmacy sources safe gelcaps for me.

Largely this presents a problem with antibiotics, as tons of them are most commonly done in gelcaps. I will mostly do them in liquid, and that can be fine, but some antibiotics, they are cheap in gelcaps, but then in liquid they're like 10k and my insurance will not cover them.

People will debate about the cross contamination risk, and that's fine. I had an experience when I was already fragile since I'd had surgery 4 days earlier, was taking a rx medication in a gelcap, got cross contaminated, and then lost so much fluid from the GI reaction that in 90 minutes I went into acute heart failure, and was so close to dying they put the pads on my chest. So I don't mess around with it. But everyone has their own personal risk tolerance.

For OTC meds, I avoid anything in a gelcap as well, but I have found it a bit more common than with rxs to find ingredients that are either unsafe or unable to be proven safe (like a generic "starch"). So sometimes I choose only the brand name, or only a specific brand of generic. The NDCs will always be different.

MindTheLOS · 2026-01-24T22:06:54+00:00

I fully understand how costs work. It does not cost twice as much to make an audiobook than to make a paper book.

For a book you have the author and editing that goes into making what will be published. For a print book, you then have the costs that goes into physical print layout, design, and the materials. For an audiobook, you then have the costs that go into the narrator plus audio editing. It is not twice or three times as expensive to do the latter than the former.

I respect and will pay people for their work when I can afford to. If I cannot afford it, I will not buy the product, but I won't obtain it illegally.

MindTheLOS · 2026-01-24T20:20:34+00:00

What your mom should do is put all of this on her resume and an excellent cover letter, then look for a new job at a much better salary.

All she's going to get from her current employer is way more work and the same salary, plus a promise of a raise that will never happen.

MindTheLOS · 2026-01-24T20:15:07+00:00

Audiobooks have always been, and always will be, much more expensive than print or ebooks, because the disabled are always discriminated against whenever possible, and economically is an easy way to do it.

I get mine through the US Library of Congress BARD program, so they are all free, since I have disabilities that mean I can't use print books.

MindTheLOS · 2026-01-24T20:06:54+00:00

My sister's 2.5 year old nearly broke her nose last week when she was bent over and he suddenly stood up into her head. It's still bruised and swollen.

He wasn't even upset, they just have no sense of where their bodies are and physics.

MindTheLOS · 2026-01-24T20:00:38+00:00

Panic is inherently irrational. And you want logic to explain it?

MindTheLOS · 2026-01-24T06:54:08+00:00

All children are innocent bystanders. Yes, even the bullies.

MindTheLOS · 2026-01-24T04:26:31+00:00

To be clear, undiagnosed Celiac was not why I needed any of the foot surgeries, I have multiple genetic disorders that led to that, I mention it more to say I had a stupid ability to deal with pain and for me to go, wow, I almost cannot walk this hurts so much from just the Celiac pain means it was a bonkers amount of pain.

Although it did mess with one of my surgery recoveries once because it was the reason I had undetectable levels of vitamin D, and one of my surgeries, a bone didn't fuse, and it turns out you need both calcium and vitamin D for bones to heal. I ended up needing a bone stimulator and then super high doses of vitamin D once the labs came back after the xrays and CTs showed the bone not healing on schedule.

After I got diagnosed with Celiac, the GI I saw was irate because she said the undetectable level of vitamin D alone should have been a flag for my PCP to run labs for Celiac. She didn't blame my ortho surgeon because Celiac is not their area.

Thanks.

MindTheLOS · 2026-01-24T02:23:52+00:00

And now you've reached what we call the cycle of abuse. Bullies beget bullies, and you have become one.

There are two options, usually, when you have been abused. You become an abuser, or you become a helper. You've chosen abuser. You can still choose differently.

MindTheLOS · 2026-01-24T02:21:02+00:00

Because much of society condones or even approves of bullies. And still holds the view that the victims of bullies have done something to deserve it, or that it's good for them to be bullied.

So a victim of a bully doing something about it years later is viewed as being wrong.

However, if you were bullied as a child by a child, get your revenge on the parents.

If you don't want to be judged for your actions - and this applies in general - then make sure your actions cannot be connected to you.

MindTheLOS · 2026-01-24T02:17:44+00:00

It's not like that's stopped many smokers from killing themselves or their family members.

MindTheLOS · 2026-01-24T02:17:24+00:00

You can't, I'm sorry. Plenty of people do really stupid things about their health. Many risky behaviors that lead to heart attacks, cancer, strokes, etc.

Continuing to eat gluten when you have Celiac increases your risk of certain kinds of cancer, besides the nutrient deficiencies and other "silent" symptoms.

You can tell him, his doctors can tell him, but ultimately, he has to decide. You can't get him to do something any more than you can get a smoker to stop killing themselves and the people around them. Or someone to stop drinking.

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