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Tangential, but one of the things I am most excited about as AI gets "human level" good at audio book narration is the ability to turn things like the Anarchist

Tangential, but one of the things I am most excited about as AI gets "human level" good at audio book narration is the ability to turn things like the Anarchist Library into audio books. There are so many things that I want to read that I just don't have time for (there and other places) but are far too obscure to ever get a professional narration. And yes Librivox has quite a few of them, but the quality is ... a little distracting (or at least was in the late 10s when I last checked).

dotsam 3y ago
Me too. I’ve been impressed with some essays I’ve listened to via Open AI TTS. Much better than the librivox ones I’ve occasionally suffered through, and it’s only going to get better.
- jilijeanlouis 3y ago
  Did you try other providers such as 11labs or open source like voice craft or openvoice
throwup238 3y ago
I too can't wait for my first ASMR napalm recipe! Finally I'll be able to get a good night's sleep.
- ufocia 3y ago
  Anarchist Library not The Anarchist Cookbook, silly.
  - throwup238 3y ago
    Drats! Foiled by reading comprehension, once again!
TaylorAlexander 3y ago
I was just thinking about this recently. There’s an obscure book I can get on ebook but not audiobook. Does anyone know the state of the art for producing an audiobook with a text to speech network?
- jilijeanlouis 3y ago
  It fun that this question comes today, last night I was saying to myself that all audiobooks from audible sounded the same. But AWS TTS quality is bad so the closest would be play.ht, 11labs and lately open source voice craft and open voice https://huggingface.co/pyp1/VoiceCraft_830M_TTSEnhanced https://huggingface.co/pyp1/VoiceCraft_830M_TTSEnhanced https://research.myshell.ai/open-voice https://research.myshell.ai/open-voice The main issue is the time and sentiment. It shouldn't take long before someone takes openvoice and start taking books and tts them on a platform. The main issue will be legal to negotiate right with copyright owners this is where the game is... purely lawyers
_akhe 3y ago
That is an incredibly good LLM app idea. Book-to-cinematic. Thousands of years of content ready to go

dotsam 3y ago

Me too. I’ve been impressed with some essays I’ve listened to via Open AI TTS. Much better than the librivox ones I’ve occasionally suffered through, and it’s only going to get better.

jilijeanlouis 3y ago
Did you try other providers such as 11labs or open source like voice craft or openvoice

throwup238 3y ago

I too can't wait for my first ASMR napalm recipe! Finally I'll be able to get a good night's sleep.

ufocia 3y ago
Anarchist Library not The Anarchist Cookbook, silly.
- throwup238 3y ago
  Drats! Foiled by reading comprehension, once again!

TaylorAlexander 3y ago

I was just thinking about this recently. There’s an obscure book I can get on ebook but not audiobook. Does anyone know the state of the art for producing an audiobook with a text to speech network?

jilijeanlouis 3y ago
It fun that this question comes today, last night I was saying to myself that all audiobooks from audible sounded the same. But AWS TTS quality is bad so the closest would be play.ht, 11labs and lately open source voice craft and open voice https://huggingface.co/pyp1/VoiceCraft_830M_TTSEnhanced https://huggingface.co/pyp1/VoiceCraft_830M_TTSEnhanced https://research.myshell.ai/open-voice https://research.myshell.ai/open-voice The main issue is the time and sentiment. It shouldn't take long before someone takes openvoice and start taking books and tts them on a platform. The main issue will be legal to negotiate right with copyright owners this is where the game is... purely lawyers

_akhe 3y ago

That is an incredibly good LLM app idea. Book-to-cinematic. Thousands of years of content ready to go