Comment on SAG-AFTRA reveals terms of ‘groundbreaking’ deal

• topinambour_rex@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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.

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• linearchaos@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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.

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  • Touching_Grass@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I disagree. I loved listening to old time radio programs that added ambiance with creaking doors and wind to set scenes

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    • redditron_2000_4@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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)

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  • mr_tyler_durden@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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.

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  • essteeyou@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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.

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    • linearchaos@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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.

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      • essteeyou@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Trying to avoid spoilers for others, but think about the other main character’s voice when they first meet.

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• Knitwear@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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.

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  • Touching_Grass@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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.

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    • Knitwear@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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

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      • abhibeckert@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        The thing is a lot of audiobooks aren’t being produced at all right now, or aren’t being produced to an acceptable quality standard (not because the narrator is bad, but because they and they editor weren’t paid enough to get it right.

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      • Touching_Grass@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        I think game changing tech is always better but we as consumers are complicit in allowing the erosion of the benefit because were complacent.

        Look at podcasts as an example. It beat the shit out of any other media at the time. Just hobbiest and funny people making content. Content that didn’t have any producers making sure people stayed on script. No ads, ever to interrupt or make creators panic about topics. Then rogan started pushing pocket pussies and everybody said its cool because its only 2 mins and skippable. Years later its now multiple unskippable ads on a paid service where we pay to avoid ads.

        The only time we could have stopped the current problem is when it wasn’t a problem. But we don’t have that foresight

        So game changing tech is great, if we keep it on track. Don’t let it erode.

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