Michael Kozlowski writes: “Major publishers are releasing more audiobooks than ever before. It is a costly endeavor, so only the most popular ones will be professionally narrated, since the costs are so high. Google recognizes that many frontlist and backlist titles will never be converted to a proper audiobook and they have developed a beta system that will employ AI and auto-generated narrators. This will basically provide indie authors and all sorts of publishing companies to make audio editions automatically.”