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Re:HackerFM – An AI Generated HN Podcast Using the New ChatG... by breakpointalpha on Wednesday March 01, 2023 @07:27PM (#34990351)
The quality of the voices here is striking.

If I wasn't clued in, I probably wouldn't know these weren't human. At least the male voice sounds slightly more natural to me.

Re:HackerFM – An AI Generated HN Podcast Using the New ChatG... by bluehex on Wednesday March 01, 2023 @08:00PM (#34990579)
That's interesting personally I found the male voice to sound more robotic and the female voice to sound much more natural.
Re:HackerFM – An AI Generated HN Podcast Using the New ChatG... by imglorp on Wednesday March 01, 2023 @09:33PM (#34991198)
Same. The female voice, especially on the first sentence in the cast, is very well inflected to separate phrases and add interest. After that, it's downhill.

ps, I feel like inflection is going to be one of the harder things for an LM to pick up, given all the subtext humans can convey with it.

Re:HackerFM – An AI Generated HN Podcast Using the New ChatG... by TheHumanist on Wednesday March 01, 2023 @08:00PM (#34990584)
Laura sounds very realistic... Zod is a bit less so . Both still very impressive. This was really cool. I'm excited to see all the new ideas with this api access.
Re:HackerFM – An AI Generated HN Podcast Using the New ChatG... by petilon on Wednesday March 01, 2023 @08:27PM (#34990766)
> Laura sounds very realistic... Zod is a bit less so

I thought so too. What do they use for text to voice?

Re:HackerFM – An AI Generated HN Podcast Using the New ChatG... by KomoD on Wednesday March 01, 2023 @08:40PM (#34990846)
Would also like to know this
Re:HackerFM – An AI Generated HN Podcast Using the New ChatG... by danbala on Wednesday March 01, 2023 @08:32PM (#34990796)
curious about that too. the female sounds a little bit like the tortoise-tts train_grace voice model?
Re:HackerFM – An AI Generated HN Podcast Using the New ChatG... by hidelooktropic on Wednesday March 01, 2023 @08:48PM (#34990888)
Possibly prime voice ai
Re:HackerFM – An AI Generated HN Podcast Using the New ChatG... by ilaksh on Wednesday March 01, 2023 @10:28PM (#34991592)
It sounds very realistic. Most realistic I know is Eleven Labs.
Re:HackerFM – An AI Generated HN Podcast Using the New ChatG... by yieldcrv on Wednesday March 01, 2023 @08:17PM (#34990710)
Always remember, this is as bad as it will ever be
Re:HackerFM – An AI Generated HN Podcast Using the New ChatG... by breakpointalpha on Thursday March 02, 2023 @08:29AM (#34995390)
I had that thought too. What will these robo-voices sound like 2 iterations from now? We've entered new territory.
Re:HackerFM – An AI Generated HN Podcast Using the New ChatG... by nothrowaways on Thursday March 02, 2023 @03:03AM (#34993253)
She is lora. Not laura
Re:HackerFM – An AI Generated HN Podcast Using the New ChatG... by zerd on Thursday March 02, 2023 @02:51PM (#35000974)
No she's Laura.

> The hosts are Laura and Zod

https://hackerfm.com/about

Re:HackerFM – An AI Generated HN Podcast Using the New ChatG... by zmmmmm on Wednesday March 01, 2023 @08:56PM (#34990939)
Realistic but very lacking in expression and no humor at all. And very slow paced. I'd want significantly more personality to be happy with it - I wonder if the reason its like this is because when they try to spice it up we are back to inappropriate things popping out.
Re:HackerFM – An AI Generated HN Podcast Using the New ChatG... by SMAAART on Wednesday March 01, 2023 @09:13PM (#34991069)
Comedians are not born, they are trained.
Re:HackerFM – An AI Generated HN Podcast Using the New ChatG... by returnInfinity on Wednesday March 01, 2023 @10:26PM (#34991569)
I believe that may get fixed eventually, not 100% may be at least 80%.
Re:HackerFM – An AI Generated HN Podcast Using the New ChatG... by babyshake on Wednesday March 01, 2023 @10:27PM (#34991575)
I'm getting a bit of John Malkovich vibe from the host, probably from the emphatic pronunciation.
Re:HackerFM – An AI Generated HN Podcast Using the New ChatG... by breakpointalpha on Thursday March 02, 2023 @08:27AM (#34995372)
Yes! I very much was thinking Malkovich too!
Re:HackerFM – An AI Generated HN Podcast Using the New ChatG... by impalallama on Thursday March 02, 2023 @12:40AM (#34992407)
Very realistic but incredibly slow. The lack of noticeable chances in mood speed is incredibly robotic even while sounding natural