I think it would be a good idea to do a section of your work with and without AI modification. Then have people listen to both and give feedback. Good to find out if people like the modifications before you do a tone of work.
Comment on Audible unveils plans to use AI voices to narrate audiobooks
riskable@programming.dev 1 day ago
I just wrote a novel (finished first draft yesterday). There’s no way I can afford professional audiobook voice actors—especially for a hobby project.
What I was planning on doing was handling the audiobook on my own—using an AI voice changer for all the different characters.
That’s where I think AI voices can shine: If someone can act they can use a voice changer to handle more characters and introduce a great variety of different styles of speech while retaining the careful pauses and dramatic elements (e.g. a voice cracking during an emotional scene) that you’d get from regular voice acting.
I’m not saying I will be able to pull that off but surely it will be better than just telling Amazon’s AI, “Hey, go read my book.”
monkeyman512@lemmy.world 1 day ago
utopiah@lemmy.world 18 hours ago
do a section of your work with and without […t]hen have people listen to both and give feedback.
Yes, that’s the principle of prototyping. De-risk while testing solely the crucial part!
ThisIsNotHim@sopuli.xyz 1 day ago
AI aside, different voices may be immersion breaking. I tend to avoid audiobooks with more than a single narrator.
echodot@feddit.uk 1 day ago
They are redoing all of the discworld books like this, and personally I can’t stand it.
taladar@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
Two narrators with one reading the male and one reading the female characters is usually okay but the full cast dramas are the worst.
iAmTheTot@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
Would infinitely prefer no voice changer.
partial_accumen@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Agreed. No AI voice changer please. Hopefully every one of us at one point in our lives has been read a story by someone else. Never once did the fact that all the different characters dialog was coming from one voice did that detract from the story or the immersion.
I’ve listened to audiobooks recorded with extremely deep masculine voices (think James Earl Jones) and when the voice actor was doing the voice of a 5 year old girl, (in only a slightly higher whiny timbre which matched the character traits) it was never immersion breaking. However, AI voice would. If I want different actors for different characters I’ll listen to radio dramas.