Re:Camus, Albert and the Anarchists (2007)
by freedomben on Friday April 26, 2024 @04:53PM
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Tangential, but one of the things I am most excited about as AI gets "human level" good at audio book narration is the ability to turn things like the Anarchist Library into audio books. There are so many things that I want to read that I just don't have time for (there and other places) but are far too obscure to ever get a professional narration. And yes Librivox has quite a few of them, but the quality is ... a little distracting (or at least was in the late 10s when I last checked).
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Re:Camus, Albert and the Anarchists (2007)
by throwup238 on Friday April 26, 2024 @07:24PM
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I too can't wait for my first ASMR napalm recipe! Finally I'll be able to get a good night's sleep.
Anarchist Library not The Anarchist Cookbook, silly.
Re:Camus, Albert and the Anarchists (2007)
by throwup238 on Friday April 26, 2024 @08:42PM
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Drats! Foiled by reading comprehension, once again!
Re:Camus, Albert and the Anarchists (2007)
by TaylorAlexander on Friday April 26, 2024 @07:37PM
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I was just thinking about this recently. There’s an obscure book I can get on ebook but not audiobook. Does anyone know the state of the art for producing an audiobook with a text to speech network?
Re:Camus, Albert and the Anarchists (2007)
by jilijeanlouis on Saturday April 27, 2024 @03:36AM
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It fun that this question comes today, last night I was saying to myself that all audiobooks from audible sounded the same. But AWS TTS quality is bad so the closest would be play.ht, 11labs and lately open source voice craft and open voice
https://huggingface.co/pyp1/VoiceCraft_830M_TTSEnhanced
https://research.myshell.ai/open-voice
The main issue is the time and sentiment.
It shouldn't take long before someone takes openvoice and start taking books and tts them on a platform.
The main issue will be legal to negotiate right with copyright owners this is where the game is... purely lawyers
Re:Camus, Albert and the Anarchists (2007)
by bschmidt1 on Friday April 26, 2024 @07:53PM
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That is an incredibly good LLM app idea. Book-to-cinematic. Thousands of years of content ready to go
Me too. I’ve been impressed with some essays I’ve listened to via Open AI TTS. Much better than the librivox ones I’ve occasionally suffered through, and it’s only going to get better.
Re:Camus, Albert and the Anarchists (2007)
by jilijeanlouis on Saturday April 27, 2024 @03:48AM
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Did you try other providers such as 11labs or open source like voice craft or openvoice