David Attenborough is now narrating my life

Re:David Attenborough is now narrating my life by MrDresden on Wednesday November 15, 2023 @02:56PM (#38281559)

While I agree, I also did thoroughly enjoy a recent Youtube channel that did Warhammer 40K lore in Attenborough's voice. It recently got taken down for obvious reasons.

Makes you wonder if in a few years there will be licenses available for using someone's voice for such endeavours.

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Re:David Attenborough is now narrating my life by kkzz99 on Wednesday November 15, 2023 @03:14PM (#38281799)

I have been creating audiobooks from ebooks for a while now. I just grab an .epub and turn it into a pretty good audiobook in minutes for completely free using local models.

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Re:David Attenborough is now narrating my life by Tagbert on Wednesday November 15, 2023 @03:19PM (#38281891)

What do you use for the voice and the text to speech generator?

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Re:David Attenborough is now narrating my life by Dig1t on Wednesday November 15, 2023 @04:45PM (#38283002)

Yes please do share the models you are using

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Re:David Attenborough is now narrating my life by thrwy_918 on Wednesday November 15, 2023 @06:52PM (#38284081)

What's the state of the art in run-it-yourself TTS? I haven't seen anything that even comes close to what ElevenLabs is doing

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Re:David Attenborough is now narrating my life by sigmar on Wednesday November 15, 2023 @09:23PM (#38285198)

I converted a book to audiobook a couple of months ago using the tts code here: https://github.com/coqui-ai/TTS

Wasn't as good as eleven labs, but it had enough options that I found a voice that I liked to listen to.

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