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Audible unveils plans to use AI voices to narrate audiobooks (www.theguardian.com)
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[–] 8 points 1 year ago (11 children)

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

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  • [–] -2 points 1 year ago (9 children)

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

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  • [+] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)
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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (5 children)

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

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (4 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

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (3 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.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year 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.

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