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Audible unveils plans to use AI voices to narrate audiobooks (www.theguardian.com)
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[–] Kornblumenratte@feddit.org 8 points 5 days ago (2 children)

Did you ever heard a single AI-narrated content that did not make you run away screaming?

[–] ArchmageAzor@lemmy.world -2 points 5 days ago (2 children)

You think they'll be narrating books with Tiktok TTS?

[–] Kornblumenratte@feddit.org 2 points 4 days ago (1 children)

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

[–] ArchmageAzor@lemmy.world 1 points 4 days ago (1 children)

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

[–] Kornblumenratte@feddit.org 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

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.

[–] ArchmageAzor@lemmy.world 1 points 3 days ago (2 children)

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.

[–] Kornblumenratte@feddit.org 1 points 2 days ago

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

[–] Kornblumenratte@feddit.org 1 points 2 days ago

Thanks, I'll listen into it.

[–] futatorius@lemm.ee 4 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Some use even worse, if YouTube content is any indication.

[–] ArchmageAzor@lemmy.world -1 points 5 days ago (1 children)

But you think Audible would use those to narrate books?

[–] Glytch@lemmy.world 1 points 5 days ago

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?