YouTube is crawling with it. It’s unlistenable shit. The prosody is badly implemented, pronunciation is infuriatingly bad, and a lot of the text that these TTS are reading appears to be AI-generated. Otherwise, already dire standards of literacy are getting worse at an accelerating rate.
Comment on Audible unveils plans to use AI voices to narrate audiobooks
Ledericas@lemm.ee 7 hours ago
youtube already does it.
futatorius@lemm.ee 2 hours ago
mlen@awful.systems 6 hours ago
And it’s shit