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Find out why Project Gutenberg Open Audiobook Collection is one of TIME's 200 best inventions of 2023.
Project Gutenberg is the oldest digital library, started in 1971 to make e-books more accessible. But CEO Greg Newby says it “isn’t great at either creating or distributing.” So Microsoft and MIT teamed up to make the Open Audiobook Collection, using text-to-speech tech to turn 5,000 books into free, synthetically narrated audiobooks, now available on Spotify.
https://time.com/collection/best-inventions-2023/6324762/project-gutenberg-open-audiobook-collection/ 
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