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Here's a similar demo I worked on that lets you generate a podcast from a text description: https://twitter.com/sharifshameem/status/1380145070624542722... The GPT-3 generated conversations were coherent most of the time, and even interesting! However the generated speech via Google Cloud's API was monotonous and could do with a bit more intonation and excitement.
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Ask and you shall receive! https://anchor.fm/deepdreams/episodes/Episode-5-e1b6trr With a new voice, as well!
Goddamn, this episode is dark. I should have vetted it more while generating.
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Googles neural voices are much better than any of Amazon’s.
Agreed. I recently built an internal application allowing our customer reps to play around with ideas using text-to-speech before sending the "copy" to a studio for a professional human recording, and included both Google WaveNet and Amazon Polly in the available voice synthesis choices. Polly is in its own right plain and simply mediocre for the most part, and in comparison to WaveNet it's just awful.
Interesting concept. Two suggestions: 1- Don't host on anchor. Podcasting is an open standard. Don't let companies (like Spotify or Apple) take it over. Check https://podcastindex.org/ 2- The voice is too mechanical for this to be actually reasonable to listen to at night, potentially could be listenable with AWS Polly Neural voices, it's pretty good.
Cool idea but that voice is like sandpaper to my ears. Maybe a female voice, a bit quieter (the soundscapes are almost completely silent for me) and maybe add some high-room-size, long decay (5-10, maybe even 20 seconds), wide panned (like 100%) and moderately diffused (maybe 10-20%) reverb to the voice with like 30% mix or so, which would add a very airy tone and help the voice blend in a bit. If the TTS engine has…
This is great feedback, thanks! Maybe I should open-source the code. Actually, fuck it: https://gitlab.com/stavros/deep-dreams I'll implement your suggestions (or as many as I can), thanks!
Cool. Is this open source?
It is now! https://gitlab.com/stavros/deep-dreams
But I still appreciate you posting it, because it's fascinating to see how such a thing was done!
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I didn't much love hosting on Anchor/Spotify, but I made this in half an hour and I didn't want to have to get into RSS/site generation. Do you know of an easy way to dump audio files and some metadata somewhere and get a Podcast with RSS? I can upload there as well. I'll try Polly, thanks! The current voice annoys me too.
The main problem is giving out the anchor.fm domain for your RSS feed, as it marries you to Anchor forever. In theory, you can get anchor to 301 redirect your subscribers somewhere else, but I've found that podcast clients tend to keep the old URL. You can use Anchor to generate your RSS feed and host your content while still sharing the RSS URL on a domain you own. So you'd give out a URL like feeds.deepdreams.com/r…