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If this could generate well-done audiobooks instantly from a text, that would be fantastic. All e-books could have an audiobook version overnight.
by sarabande 6y ago
If this could generate well-done audiobooks instantly from a text, that would be fantastic. All e-books could have an audiobook version overnight.
- woah 6y agoIt's kind of odd that they are not pitching this as the primary use case. Seems much more plug and play than game voicing
- mthoms 6y agoIt needs a human to annotate the text with the desired emotion. Ideally, it would be able to infer the emotion from the text itself, but I think that level of sophistication is a long way off. Edit: Actually, this might be a perfect candidate for some sort of crowdsourcing. Imagine Wikipedia pages containing hidden annotations for the proper text-to-speech "tone/cadence/whatever" of each sentence or paragraph.
- bnj 6y agoThis is a really cool idea— amazing to think about something like goodreads taken to the next level where people are sharing their emotion markups for texts. Imagine how you could try different mappings to see which ones you liked...
- sergeykish 6y ago<curios>how would it know?</curios> <dismissive>how would it know?</dismissive> <sorrow>how would it know?</sorrow> <angry>how would it know?</angry>