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

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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

Look at the description of the video. It's not automatically generated. He made several voices and narrator and applied it to each character.

While insanely cool, it's not "put in book here, get audio book there"

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

Yes I realise that and was over simplifying in this response but as I stated in another comment I would be more than happy to work on prompts for myself if it could generate something satisfactory to listen to.

The video posted by OP still sounds a bit "dead" so I don't think the tech is quite there yet but it is promising for the future the way it is headed.