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Really not nearly as close as you’re implying. Human narrators do things like use different inflection depending on who’s speaking.
by TylerE 4y ago
Really not nearly as close as you’re implying.
Human narrators do things like use different inflection depending on who’s speaking.
- atorodius 4y agoThat is probably easily possible with a bit of engineering.. Can't be too hard to figure out who's speaking with some NLP?
- r00fus 4y agoIn 2007 the state of playback was pitiful. Of course the authors guild saw the trend lines, but even in 2022, we know Siri/Alexa don't sound human at all (my pre-teens make fun of them). It's all possible but I doubt it'll be here in 10 years.
- TylerE 4y agoThere’s also a huge difference between acceptable for a few sentences (Alexa) and acceptable for hours and hours.
- KptMarchewa 4y agoThey sound non human by design.
- savanaly 4y agoChat gpt can already parrot back some idea to you in the written "voice" of any famous historical figure you care to name, and remembers context from earlier in your session to inform its written inflection as well. Presumably this implies we have "line of sight" to doing something analogous in the audio space, at least in this generation. Certainly if you fed a whole book into chat gpt that it had never read before and asked it to describe the intonation of a character's voice it would have some level of accuracy (e.g. "husky" vs "meek") so I think we would want to do something similar for the AI reading. It could also probably pick up on context in what it's reading and read it with emotion.
- drc500free 4y agoMy worry is that you could do something 60% as good for 1% of the cost, at which point a well-narrated audiobook becomes an extreme luxury good. Most people will pay $5-$10 for the "good enough" algorithmic version, and there aren't enough people who care to pay the fixed cost of Michael Kramer doing a version.