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

ExtantHuman@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

• ApatheticCactus@lemmy.world ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I’ve tried one that works surprisingly well. Each sentence had great pacing, cadence, and correct enunciation- even had tone right when someone was shouting or angry or sad.

  I wouldn’t really recommend it, though. While I couldn’t pick any single thing out that was wrong, overall it just didn’t quite flow. It’s like watching someone try to act that is technically doing everything right, but it just isn’t good. It basically didn’t understand the greater context of the story and was saying lines.

  It was uncanny valley, but exclusively with voice.

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• Kusimulkku@lemm.ee ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I thought people mainly paid for the large library

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• Litebit@lemmy.world ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Is there an offline tool that generates realistic audio for epubs as Mp3 ? Something like the free Ai tool, Vibe which is for transcription. Is there something similar for TTS, runs locally without complicated setup using python and etc.

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  • ExtantHuman@lemm.ee ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I’ve loaded epubs into the app ReadEra, which lets you read it like any other novel app or will, in real time, read it to you. It’s not the most natural of speech, but was good enough for my commute when I was in the midst of a compelling book.

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    • unphazed@lemmy.world ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Download TTS Server, and change the engine in Readera to use it. Use the Microsoft Azure settings in TTS, much more realistic. Little slow though is my only complaint as it sends/receives a paragraph at time, resulting in a pause now and again.

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      • LordGimp@lemm.ee ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        How do I do that? Have both readera and tts server on a Samsung Galaxy

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  • aceshigh@lemmy.world ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Great question! I need to come back to this thread to see if something is suggested.

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• Mbourgon@lemmy.world ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Looking for iOS recommendations, preferably without a subscription that can read epub/pdf

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  • ExtantHuman@lemm.ee ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I’m an android user, so not sure if it’s on iOS but I’ve used ReadEra

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    • j0ester@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      It’s on iOS.

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