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Re:Show HN: I generated 70k audiobooks with OpenAI Text-to-S... by jkbbwr on Sunday July 14, 2024 @06:27PM (#40963660)
Honestly? The quality of the output is as expected, I wondered how it would manage something like Shakespeare which depends so heavily on iambic pentameter, instead AI does what it usually does which is drone on at a slightly too fast speed, with no natural pauses and no delivery. Honestly as with most things you would be better paying for a human performance than relying on this.

I wish the OP well, and the project is nicely designed. But AI simply isn't there for this yet, not without a lot of individual hand holding and extra work.

Re:Show HN: I generated 70k audiobooks with OpenAI Text-to-S... by evan_ry on Sunday July 14, 2024 @06:33PM (#40963699)
You should try listening to some non-fiction, such as history, philosophy, biographies, etc.

It's already great for that purpose.

Re:Show HN: I generated 70k audiobooks with OpenAI Text-to-S... by jkbbwr on Sunday July 14, 2024 @06:36PM (#40963711)
They are better, but they still sound slightly unnatural to me, the pauses are in the wrong places, or not long enough. It takes me out of focusing on the actual words