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Re:Project Gutenberg has implemented one of the worst AI fea... by StopTheWorld on Saturday September 23, 2023 @03:55PM (#37626848)
I just listened to the beginning of one of these books.

The book text starts out "I." as in, roman numeral for chapter 1. The audio book read this as "eye" (or "I", but not 1).

Then the third sentence in the text says "1793-05". The audio was "1793 to 2005". Actually it was 1793 to 1805.

I listened to a few more sentences and had an idea of the state of it currently. The tech has advanced in the past few years, still has a way to go. Insofar as striking actors, they probably should be worried about what the big companies are up to.

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Re:Project Gutenberg has implemented one of the worst AI fea... by msp26 on Saturday September 23, 2023 @04:39PM (#37627324)
Wouldn't that be caused by an OCR issue? No matter how primitive I doubt a TTS model would mistake I for 1. The book was probably poorly scanned, OCRed, and then had automated audiogen.
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Re:Project Gutenberg has implemented one of the worst AI fea... by duskwuff on Saturday September 23, 2023 @05:10PM (#37627583)
> No matter how primitive I doubt a TTS model would mistake I for 1.

"I" is the correct text, but it's intended as a Roman numeral and should be read as "one". (And, a few chapters later, "IV" should be read as "four", not "intravenous".)

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Re:Project Gutenberg has implemented one of the worst AI fea... by msp26 on Sunday September 24, 2023 @12:54AM (#37630237)
Ah thanks for clarifying
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Re:Project Gutenberg has implemented one of the worst AI fea... by WalterBright on Saturday September 23, 2023 @04:19PM (#37627093)
Eye sea a lot of otto-generated subtitles with homonym miss takes.
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Re:Project Gutenberg has implemented one of the worst AI fea... by tredre3 on Saturday September 23, 2023 @04:08PM (#37626979)
> Then the third sentence in the text says "1793-05". The audio was "1793 to 2005". Actually it was 1793 to 1805.

Bit of a tangent here but did you get 1805 from context or is YYYY-YY a common year range notation that I'm not aware of? Because I would never guess 1793-05 meant 1793-1805 either.

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Re:Project Gutenberg has implemented one of the worst AI fea... by d3w4s9 on Saturday September 23, 2023 @04:34PM (#37627247)
> Because I would never guess 1793-05 meant 1793-1805 either.

Read more books.

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Re:Project Gutenberg has implemented one of the worst AI fea... by saulpw on Saturday September 23, 2023 @04:24PM (#37627149)
Sure, it's awkward, but how about "1793 to oh-five"? Instead of inserting incorrect content.
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Re:Project Gutenberg has implemented one of the worst AI fea... by fnordpiglet on Saturday September 23, 2023 @04:13PM (#37627026)
It’s not but it’s obvious from the context, which I think is the point. A GPT-4 LLM could probably figure it out from context, but most text to speech models probably don’t have as much semantic training.
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Re:Project Gutenberg has implemented one of the worst AI fea... by hadlock on Saturday September 23, 2023 @05:55PM (#37627905)
1898-02 or 1998-02 would be the years someone attended high school or college. The context of when it was written, either in 1905 or 2023 can be important. Seems to be pretty common notation when spanning centuries, particularly +/- 10 years. I grew up during the turn of the century and seemed to be quite common.
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