I listened to Call of the Wild and it was excellent. I think some of the intonation and contextual emphasis, tone etc could be improved. I suspect this is defin

I listened to Call of the Wild and it was excellent. I think some of the intonation and contextual emphasis, tone etc could be improved. I suspect this is definitely the nail in the coffin for artisanal narration. Some of the recent SOTA models (below) do very well in these areas, so I’ll wager in 5 years all ebooks will be narratable via a local or cloud model as part of the reader. https://ai.meta.com/blog/voicebox-generative-ai-model-speech/ https://ai.meta.com/blog/voicebox-generative-ai-model-speech... https://news.play.ht/post/introducing-playht2-0-the-state-of-the-art-generative-voice-ai-model-for-conversational-speech https://news.play.ht/post/introducing-playht2-0-the-state-of...