Comment on SAG-AFTRA reveals terms of ‘groundbreaking’ deal
dingleberry@discuss.tchncs.de 7 months ago
Next: please protect voice actors and audiobook narrators.
Comment on SAG-AFTRA reveals terms of ‘groundbreaking’ deal
dingleberry@discuss.tchncs.de 7 months ago
Next: please protect voice actors and audiobook narrators.
Touching_Grass@lemmy.world 7 months ago
topinambour_rex@lemmy.world 7 months ago
But the original voice actor, the one which was used as model for the AI voice should gain something from what is generated from his voice.
If they decide to put their voice as royalty free, fine, but if it is something who paid their bills by making recordings of their voice, not fine.
linearchaos@lemmy.world 7 months ago
I don’t mind different voices, but books with sound effects are hot trash. If I want to watch a movie, if watch a movie. Let my mind do the work.
Touching_Grass@lemmy.world 7 months ago
I disagree. I loved listening to old time radio programs that added ambiance with creaking doors and wind to set scenes
redditron_2000_4@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Soundbooth Theater does “audio immersion” versions of some books and they are amazing. It is genre fiction, but if it they are your genres then you should check them out! (Horror, fantasy, sci-fi, etc)
mr_tyler_durden@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Amen. If there are sound effects then I’m not interested. All of those audio presentations or whatever they are called sound so forced and over-acted.
essteeyou@lemmy.world 7 months ago
If you haven’t listened to Project Hail Mary then I can understand your perspective. PHM works better as an audiobook than a regular book because of the “effects” in my opinion.
linearchaos@lemmy.world 7 months ago
I’ve listened to that twice read by Ray Porter, who is my favorite audiobook narrator. I don’t remember there being any special effects in the book whatsoever on audible. The dude is just a master of different voices One of the reasons why he was so incredible in bobiverse.
Knitwear@lemmy.world 7 months ago
“Having an audio book that shifts voices and tone easy but can also include background noises”
That’s not what you’re going to get. Even with A.I they all requires sound editing. What we’ll get is what we have now, a single A.I voice with eerie intonation that modifies some words to their context but not others so it functions for a sentence but cannot emote a paragraph.
Touching_Grass@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Are you saying that AI isn’t improving?
I just read someone that said they listened to an audio book that did do this.
Knitwear@lemmy.world 7 months ago
No I’m saying that when we get a new game changing technology things don’t tend to become better produced, they become cheaper to produce cheaply