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Voice synthesis AI has gotten pretty impressive: https://www.audiostory.ai/2065785/12139903-a-fragment-from-the-great-gatsby-by-f-scott-fitzgerald?t=0 https://w

Voice synthesis AI has gotten pretty impressive: https://www.audiostory.ai/2065785/12139903-a-fragment-from-the-great-gatsby-by-f-scott-fitzgerald?t=0 https://www.audiostory.ai/2065785/12139903-a-fragment-from-t... I listen to a lot of audiobooks and have definitely sampled some with narrators I found harder to listen to than that. That said, there’s a sort of droning evenness to the voice that makes me unsure I’d want to listen to an entire book’s worth, and the voice reading Gatsby is way better than the voice reading Alice in Wonderland, which I definitely couldn’t listen through.

JZL003 3y ago
A serial fiction book I read has only text but I still want an audio book. It takes a little bit to get used to but with text to speech, your mind figures it out and starts to put emotion in the monotone voice. It's not as good as a real narrator but Google's text to speech is maybe 60-70% as doable
adhesive_wombat 3y ago
> which I definitely couldn’t listen through. Some (presumably) professional human audiobook narrators have that effect on me!