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@return2ozma@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish • 1 month ago

Audible unveils plans to use AI voices to narrate audiobooks

www.theguardian.com

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Audible unveils plans to use AI voices to narrate audiobooks

www.theguardian.com

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Amazon brand will offer more than 100 artificial intelligence-generated voices in English and other languages
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    Did you ever heard a single AI-narrated content that did not make you run away screaming?

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

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        • ssillyssadass
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          But you think Audible would use those to narrate books?

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

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          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.

          https://youtu.be/2pbhnyrpHmY?t=7h19m42s

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            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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              I don’t know if my timestamp went through, but the part I linked to was at 7h/19m/42s. That’s the relevant part, not necessarily the entire video. That’s a showcase of good AI voices.

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                My browser eats timestamps, til. And yes, that is impressive.

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                Thanks, I’ll listen into it.

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