Comment on Audible unveils plans to use AI voices to narrate audiobooks

• venusaur@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Sure there are. ElevenLabs is one. You can probably tell they’re not human but they’re really decent.

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  • echodot@feddit.uk ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    They still don’t understand the context of what they’re reading though so they can’t apply tone correctly.

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    • ArchmageAzor@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      From what I’ve been able to hear it’s not that bad. They’re pretty good at having a general tone. But they may fail when it comes to emotional tones, like anger or sadness. But for just reading a book aloud there shouldn’t be any issue.

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    • venusaur@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Fair. Definitely some awkward phrasing, but it’ll get better.

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  • Landless2029@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Just tried it. Still a machine buy much better than default TTS.

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    • venusaur@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      In 10 years it’s probably gonna be really impressive.

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• thiseggowaffles@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Speechify is probably the best option.

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• knightly@pawb.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  No

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