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 11 months ago[deleted]
linearchaos@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Touching_Grass@lemmy.world 11 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 11 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 11 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 11 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 11 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.
essteeyou@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Trying to avoid spoilers for others, but think about the other main character’s voice when they first meet.
Knitwear@lemmy.world 11 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 11 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 11 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
abhibeckert@lemmy.world 11 months 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.
Touching_Grass@lemmy.world 11 months 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.
topinambour_rex@lemmy.world 11 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.