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A partnership with OpenAI will let podcasters replicate their voices to automatically create foreign-language versions of their shows.

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[–] danielbln 31 points 1 year ago (3 children)
[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago

Point taken, well done.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That's obviously way better than any TTS before it, but I still wouldn't want to listen to it for more than a few minutes. In these two sentences I can already hear some of the "AI quirks" and the longer you listen, the more you start to notice them.
I listen to a lot of AI celeb impersonations and they all sound like the same machine with different voice synthesizers. There's something about the prosody that gives it away, every sentence has the same generic pattern.
Humans are generally more creative, or more monotonous, but AI is in a weird inbetween space where it's never interested and never bored, always soulless.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Having listened to it, I could not identify any sort of “AI quirk”. It sounded perfectly fine.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

This is beautiful