Amazon's Kindle Unlimited becomes Kindle+, with AI-narrated audiobooks
Amazon has renamed Kindle Unlimited as Kindle+. One of the main changes is audiobooks produced with Virtual Voice, narrated by AI rather than by people as on Audible.
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