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@jkmartindale@mastodon.social
2025-12-21 20:29:43

I love that Amazon made a Rome Edition Echo Dot earlier this year for some reason amazon.it/dp/B0F3LYNQK4

Echo Dot Rome Limited Edition product page. The product image shows a bulbous Echo Dot emblazoned with a stylized illustration of the Colosseum, columns, cathedrals, aqueducts, and other stuff. Product description: A LIMITED EDITION ROME ECHO DOT: Celebrating Rome in the 2025 Jubilee Year with an iconic illustration of its most beloved views. It combines the innovation of Italian art with our best sounding Echo Dot yet. YOUR FAVORITE MUSIC AND CONTENT: Listen to music, audiobooks, and podcast…
@nitpicking@mstdn.party
2025-10-19 02:22:39

OK, how did that happen? This image is from libro.fm/audiobooks/9781666595. Did the artist have a decorative "D" on a different PhotoShop layer from the rest of the text, and somehow forget to export it for this thumbnail? The odd slightly-off-…

Book cover for *The Last Dark* with the author name as Stephen R. Onaldson.
@cheryanne@aus.social
2025-10-20 09:44:30

For those of us listening (or reading) along at home. Finally got around to grabbing the 5th Thursday Murder Club audiobook. I will relisten to the first 4 before starting the new one.v Relaxing comfort listening.
#ThursdayMurderClub #RichardOsman

Covers of the Thursday Murder Club book series so far. 5 audiobooks.
@Mediagazer@mstdn.social
2025-11-13 15:35:59

Spotify starts rolling out Recaps, a new AI feature for audiobooks that summarizes what users have listened to so far, in beta on iOS (Elissa Welle/The Verge)
theverge.com/news/819476/spoti

Spotify’s new audiobook recap feature uses AI to remind you of the story so far
Spotify launches AI-generated summaries of audiobooks to catch listeners up on what they’ve already heard.

@gwire@mastodon.social
2025-10-13 13:15:49

Keira Knightley, who is represented by Lindy King, was not aware of the boycott calls before joining the audiobook cast.
theguardian.com/film/2025/oct/

Keira Knightley says she was ‘not aware’ of JK Rowling boycott calls before joining Harry Potter audiobooks
Actor, who voices Dolores Umbridge in the new full-cast recordings, says she hopes ‘we can all find respect’ amid renewed controversy over Rowling’s views on trans rights

@midtsveen@social.linux.pizza
2025-12-05 12:10:57

xD When I search for Libre.fm on Google, I also get results for libro.fm, which is pretty awesome too!

Buy audiobooks & support local bookstores
Libro.fm makes it possible for you to buy audiobooks directly through local bookstores.

@njamster@mastodon.gamedev.place
2025-10-04 13:20:05

PSA: If you pay for a Spotify premium account, and they informed you about a nearing price increase, what they actually *didn't* tell you is that you can keep the old price, as long as you don't plan to listen to any audiobooks on Spotify. 🙄
#PSA #Spotify

A screenshot of the "Update subscription" part of Spotify, showing a user (me) switching from the "Premium Individual" subscription billed at €10.99 per month to the new "Basic Individual" subscription at (still) €10.99 per month.
@arXiv_eessAS_bot@mastoxiv.page
2025-09-23 10:57:41

Audiobook-CC: Controllable Long-context Speech Generation for Multicast Audiobook
Min Liu, JingJing Yin, Xiang Zhang, Siyu Hao, Yanni Hu, Bin Lin, Yuan Feng, Hongbin Zhou, Jianhao Ye
arxiv.org/abs/2509.17516

Audiobook-CC: Controllable Long-context Speech Generation for Multicast Audiobook
Existing text-to-speech systems predominantly focus on single-sentence synthesis and lack adequate contextual modeling as well as fine-grained performance control capabilities for generating coherent multicast audiobooks. To address these limitations, we propose a context-aware and emotion controllable speech synthesis framework specifically engineered for multicast audiobooks with three key innovations: a context mechanism for contextual consistency, a disentanglement paradigm to decouple styl…