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They've done well with the reading -voices-, and enunciations. But the readings themselves are, well, hilariously revealing in many ways. Odd pauses like 'Winni
by 8bitsrule 3y ago
They've done well with the reading -voices-, and enunciations. But the readings themselves are, well, hilariously revealing in many ways. Odd pauses like 'Winnie. The poo...', or word-bunchings, mispronouncings, sudden unexpected volume changes, etc. become a constant distraction. All parties in fictional conversation sound much alike ... who's talking now?
In short, voice-animation pros should not be too worried. Yet.
- narrationbox 3y agoTheir sentence segmentation heuristics were not configured correctly. It's not an inherent limitation of the technology itself. The newer transformer based generators are a bit better in this regard (since they can maintain a longer context window, not just in short tiny snippets).
- GeekyBear 3y agoI haven't looked at much of Project Gutenberg's source text recently, but in the past I found a lot of formatting issues. Strange line breaks and spacing artifacts from OCR were pretty common, and may be the source of some of the weird pauses that were in some works, but not others. I'm a fan of Standard eBooks, where they take the extra effort to proofread and clean up the OCR results, They make works available as well formatted epub files with attractive typography, metadata, and cover art. https://standardebooks.org/ https://standardebooks.org/
- RecycledEle 3y agoI have not noticed any volume changes.
- 8bitsrule 3y agoI meant, not in the audio level, but some words are said much louder than those around them. 'Misplaced emphasis' for long!