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Why isn't everyone talking about AI generated audiobooks? (reddthat.com)

submitted 1 year ago by PumpkinDrama@reddthat.com to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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I just listened to this AI generated audiobook and if it didn't say it was AI, I'd have thought it was human-made. It has different voices, dramatization, sound effects... The last I'd heard about this tech was a post saying Stephen Fry's voice was stolen and replicated by AI. But since then, nothing, even though it's clearly advanced incredibly fast. You'd expect more buzz for something that went from detectable as AI to indistinguishable from humans so quickly. How is it that no one is talking about AI generated audiobooks and their rapid improvement? This seems like a huge deal to me.

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[–] theskyisfalling@lemmy.dbzer0.com 30 points 1 year ago (39 children)

As someone who only consumes books in audiobook form this is great news for me, I tried to listen to some automatically generated audio books around 2 years ago and I found them horrible to listen to just because they sounded so off.

I'd love to be able to copy in the text of a book and get actually listenable (is that a proper word?) audiobook out of the other side for some books that will just simply never be recorded by actual people due to being too old / obscure.

I've been wanting to be able to listen to the Pelucidar books for years but they just don't exist in audio format, is there somewhere publically available that I can do this?

[–] not_a_bot_i_swear@lemmy.world 17 points 1 year ago (5 children)

I would guess there is a LOT of work going into each voice. Playing with different parameters and prompts. I don't think it's as simple as just copying the text into a box. Not yet at least :)

[–] Nukken@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That's a good thought there though. Audiobooks could have each character voiced uniquely.

[–] AdmiralShat@programming.dev 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This is literally the only upside I see from this.

One of the Dune audio books started off as multiple voices and then part way through it was finished by just one guy. Really impressed with it at first, and then really kind of debuffed by it. I had already read the book years before so it wasn't a big deal, but like wtf?

[–] physcx@kbin.social 5 points 1 year ago

Lol what a troll audio book.

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