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How much listening have you done to the results? How do you feel about the results? Just interested because I've listened to quite a few AI readings (sometimes
by scandox 2y ago
How much listening have you done to the results? How do you feel about the results? Just interested because I've listened to quite a few AI readings (sometimes without knowing ahead of time) and I'm still sort of processing my reactions.
- cco 2y agoI'm curious about this as well, I listened to a few of the samples and they seem to be of ok quality. But having experimented with this myself a bit, things can be fine until it chokes and you get very weird emphasis, emotion etc. Side note, this almost feels like something 2012 Google would have done, a la their scanning of the Library of Congress. Something to show off their text-to-speech.
- evan_ry 2y agoI personally actively listen to shorter-form content. I have already listened to around 30 of Paul Graham's essays and the "Shape Up" mini-book from Basecamp (both are free on listenly.io/public-library). Jason Cohen's blog posts and TechCrunch "Startup Weekly" newsletter are also great to listen to. In terms of books, I'm not as active. But actually, I like Churchill's books much better with this AI narration than any that I've found on Audible. It looks like they're trying to narrate Churchill's books as if Churchill would, and it's not a good thing. I think it's already very good in terms of sound quality. If not for fiction, then for professional literature, it's just great. Some people have already purchased some books, finding them through Google (it is indexing all the pages right now, but it is taking some time, as there are 100,000+ pages for all the books, authors, and subjects).