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The quality needs to be very high for it not to be jarring. I stay with podcasts if the host has a "good radio voice". ("Not even all human voices are good enou
by kzrdude 4y ago
The quality needs to be very high for it not to be jarring. I stay with podcasts if the host has a "good radio voice". ("Not even all human voices are good enough for me.") It's just a very intimate medium to have someone's voice right in your head. If the voices have annoying quirks, those audiobooks will not be loved.
Yes, it needs to be tens of hours of perfectly good narration.
- sidibe 4y agoI have used TTS for books for years. It might be jarring the first time but you get used to it very quickly, I don't even think about it. I actually prefer it to my Audible books usually because it doesn't ever do anything to annoy me like some narrators, and I can understand it at whatever speeds. There are some dialogue heavy books where I have to read along though to be sure of who is talking.
- lvl102 4y agoI think you’re underestimating state of the art in this area. You can do amazing things with just a few minutes of readings.
- rockemsockem 4y agoNo. You are vastly overestimating it. There is a reason there is no broadly available TTS service like there is for text-to-image. Anyone who says you can clone a voice in a few minutes is not talking about human-quality.
- lvl102 4y agoI’ve done a few models on my own. Stephen Fry is a relative easy one. This is from 2020 so I am sure state of the art is far better now.
- rockemsockem 4y agoI'm not saying you can't do it, I'm saying it likely does not sound good enough for the average person to listen to for a long time. Got a sample?