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Re:Generate audiobooks from E-books with Kokoro-82M by pegasus on Wednesday January 15, 2025 @06:09AM (#42709634)
They still wouldn't be high quality. It's just not possible to capture the precise tone of voice in an annotation, and that precision I believe really makes a difference. My experience is that the deeper the narrator understands the text and conveys that understanding, the easier it becomes for me to absorb that information.
Re:Generate audiobooks from E-books with Kokoro-82M by vasco on Wednesday January 15, 2025 @06:52AM (#42709891)
Have you tried those "podcast from a paper" models? They do some of the things you are saying they don't, although it's not 100% it's also miles ahead of for example human Polish TV lectors, or other monotone style narrations.