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

• ArchmageAzor@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  You think they’ll be narrating books with Tiktok TTS?

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  • futatorius@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Some use even worse, if YouTube content is any indication.

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    • ArchmageAzor@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      But you think Audible would use those to narrate books?

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      • Glytch@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        I think an Amazon owned company would actually default to Alexa, who’s voice is equally terrible. Why pay more to develop a better voice?

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  • Kornblumenratte@feddit.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    To rephrase my question: where can I listen to an example of good AI spoken content?

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    • ArchmageAzor@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      First thing that comes to my mind would be Dougdoug. He’s a streamer who messes around with AI a fair bit for funny content, including using AI-generated voices at times.

      youtu.be/2pbhnyrpHmY?t=7h19m42s

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      • Kornblumenratte@feddit.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Hm. I wasn’t able to listen to all 9:53:57, but in the samples I watched I heard a voice resembling the classical computer voice of Science Fiction movies of the 70s. Better than most YouTube AI generated audio content, but good enough to narrate audio books? Well, we’ll accustom to anything, I guess.

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