nixCraft 🐧Sep 11, 2023
The Project Gutenberg Open Audiobook Collection:
Thousands of free and open audiobooks powered by #Microsoft AI https://marhamilresearch4.blob.core.windows.net/gutenberg-public/Website/index.html This is another prime example of how voice actor's jobs will disappear due to AI. I am still determining the future, but the idea of AI painting or reading/writing books or poems, while humans are losing jobs is terrifying. The AI quality is not good but passable, while real talented people are looking to lose jobs. What do you think?
The Project Gutenberg Open Audiobook Collection

Thousands of free and open audiobooks powered by Microsoft AI

Show threadnixCraft 🐧
Of course, Project Gutenberg is accepted as a volunteer effort to digitize and archive cultural work. So, it may pass the legal test, but overall, there is a mad rush to use AI, and we are still determining how it will affect in the long run. I guess only time will tell ;)
Sep 11, 2023 at 2:51pmWeb
Show threadSteve WhiteSep 11, 2023
@nixCraft It's interesting to me that the Microsoft offering contained in the PG audiobooks I sampled is considerably worse than some stuff I've played with (text to speech AI stuff). Several of the TTS systems produce speech it's hard to recognize as generated speech.
Show threadbparconsSep 11, 2023
@nixCraft it's out of the box
Show threaddodothedev Sep 11, 2023
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Having listened to a chapter of Killing Floor read by AI, i think most people will avoid it (at the moment, anyway). Unless it improves considerably, i think voice acting is safe for the time being.