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return2ozma@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 days ago

Audible unveils plans to use AI voices to narrate audiobooks

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Audible unveils plans to use AI voices to narrate audiobooks

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

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

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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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