Re:Generate audiobooks from E-books with Kokoro-82M
by j4coh on Wednesday January 15, 2025 @07:05AM
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If you see podcasts as useless in modern society as illuminated manuscripts, no big loss I suppose, but I do enjoy the human made ones and would be sad to see them go extinct as the manuscripts did. And the same thing is happening to other entry-level creative roles, some of which you may personally regret the loss of too.
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Re:Generate audiobooks from E-books with Kokoro-82M
by akho on Wednesday January 15, 2025 @08:44AM
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I enjoy looking at illuminated manuscripts. Podcasts are bullshit and can die in a ditch.
Re:Generate audiobooks from E-books with Kokoro-82M
by teekert on Wednesday January 15, 2025 @09:10AM
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I enjoy podcasts but I still hope illuminated manuscripts won’t die in a ditch so other people can enjoy content the way they prefer ;)
Re:Generate audiobooks from E-books with Kokoro-82M
by lupusreal on Wednesday January 15, 2025 @09:35AM
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Actually I think illuminated manuscripts had more value, insofar as they were art, than podcasts (99% of which are vapid timewasters and/or friend simulators.) The good podcasts are those view which involve interviewing interesting people, and AI isn't replacing those.
There's a lot more to be said for the value of audio books, but the accessibility gains of proliferated auto-generated audiobooks outweigh the downside of losing a small number of expertly produced audio books.
For context, I listen to audio books a lot, and for years I have listened to traditional TTS readings of books too. Better voice generation for books without audiobooks is a great win for society.