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[6]Project Gutenberg and Microsoft have worked together to create thousands
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Project Gutenberg's large open-access collection of e-books. This project
aims to make literature more accessible to (audio)book-lovers everywhere and
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For more technical information on the code used to generate these audiobooks
please see our IEEE Big Data paper: [8]Large Scale Intelligent Microservices‍
Bibtex:
@article{hamilton2020large,
title={Large-Scale Intelligent Microservices},
author={Hamilton, Mark and Gonsalves, Nick and Lee, Christina
and Raman, Anand and Walsh, Brendan and Prasad, Siddhartha
and Banda, Dalitso and Zhang, Lucy and Zhang, Lei and Freeman,
William T},
journal={arXiv preprint arXiv:2009.08044},
year={2020}}
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