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There are so many realistic text to voice project shared on HN. Why YouTube is using robotic voice, and it sounds irritating and I can't listen to it more than
by new_user_final 2y ago
There are so many realistic text to voice project shared on HN. Why YouTube is using robotic voice, and it sounds irritating and I can't listen to it more than a minute.
- anamexis 2y agoI don't know, I would prefer such things to be slightly robotic over them being in the uncanny valley.
- svachalek 2y agoIt's been years since Google demoed their shocking AI voice calls, and still this seems to be the state of things. It's hard to separate the words from the robotic voice here but the state of Google Translate has also been really sad the last few times I've tried it, given the fantastic translation that most LLMs can provide these days.
- SR2Z 2y agoIt's almost certainly because of the scale at which this type of thing needs to run. There are a lot of YouTube videos.
- bobsmooth 2y agoThe only thing that makes sense is that good models require a lot of compute, probably more than the transcoding that happens when you upload.