Comment on Spotify begins accepting AI-narrated audiobooks recorded using ElevenLabs' software; Spotify already allows AI-recorded audiobooks, with several restrictions.

Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

• Ulrich@feddit.org ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  ElevenLabs is pretty much the premiere AI voice transcription service. It’s pretty wild.

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  • Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Yeah, but is there anything that’s not >$100/month to transcribe one book worth of audio?

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  • CHOPSTEEQ@lemmy.ml ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I’m as anti “AI” as they come but there’s a master Japanese carpenter on YouTube, Shoyan, who goes through the trouble of translating his commentary to English, someone proofs it because the grammar is usually perfect, and then runs it through a comforting racially ambiguous old man voice from ElevenLabs I think. And honestly? It works really well. It’s obviously not a natural voice but it’s not fake enough to be disorienting or annoying like the early types were.

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• trailee@sh.itjust.works ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Yes! Read a book out loud, preferably to your kids, recording each chapter as a file. Then use m4b-tool to combine all the chapter files into a full audiobook.

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  • Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Unfortunately my toddler doesn’t have the same reading interests as I… I also don’t know if I could handle listening to my own voice.

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