Let's cut straight to what *will* happen and save you countless hours of time:
In the not too distant future, you will write your story, publish it in an RSS feed.
Modern podcast apps will do all the voice synthesising and production on the receiving end. This way people can fine tune the voice, inflection, speed and even the accent to their own taste.
Podcast apps are uniquely positioned to play this role in media production and distribution.
@Djeep I need to see it as I do not believe it was all for him. There were quite a number of podcasters affected by this company that didn't pay out. Not entirely a 'scam', but a company that went out of business.
"The dream of podcast, as I often say, was that you could buy a cheap mic, set-up a mini-studio in your attic, and be broadcasting to millions off the back of your own talent."
Uh, no. It was about being free of gatekeepers. Money wasn't even in the equation until we started building podcast networks years later, which turned out to be unprofitable, scammy and not work very well for all stakeholders.
Just so we're clear, 230 is about "interactive Computer Services", defined as follows:
e term “interactive computer service” means any information service, system, or access software provider that provides or enables computer access by multiple users to a computer server, including specifically a service or system that provides access to the Internet and such systems operated or services offered by libraries or educational institutions.
With respect brother's, we had a perfectly functioning decentralized web 24 years ago. RSS and aggregators. We had newsfeeds without algos, pingbacks, trackbacks. The semantic web.
And we DO pay for our own servers for RSS and mp3s. Just as I pay for my own server for curry.com etc.
Artists would host their images on their own feeds, aggregators keep your feed in your own power.
Podcasts are proof that this model has staying power. And once we took control back from Apple seve seen massive innovation with over 25 new podcast features and a new messaging bus through the lightning network.