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The Project Gutenberg Open Audiobook Collection

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Re: The Project Gutenberg Open Audiobook Collection

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Post by yorwba »

didntcheck wrote: post #4

See also: Librivox [1], for public-domain audio books read by actual humans [1] https://librivox.org/

Most likely the AI was actually trained on LibriVox, potentially even on largely the same books...

EDIT: The first book on the list https://marhamilresearch4.blob.core.windows.net/gutenberg-pu... is "100%: the Story of a Patriot" and the LibriVox version is at https://librivox.org/100-the-story-of-a-patriot-by-upton-sin...

Re: The Project Gutenberg Open Audiobook Collection

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Post by saw-lau »

yread wrote: post #3

Very cool. Although they shouldn't have even bothered with the poems, it sounds terrible https://archive.org/download/synapseml_gutenberg_a_bell_s_bi...

I thought I'd look up something I knew and spotted 'Thérèse Raquin', which gets butchered into 'Rackwin'... some way to go yet, I think!

https://ia804709.us.archive.org/35/items/synapseml_gutenberg...

(Hats off for the effort, though.)

Re: The Project Gutenberg Open Audiobook Collection

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Post by ghaff »

pjmlp wrote: post #6

Yet another example on how jobs will go away, goodbye voice actors.

It seems pretty obvious that, at least at this point, the competition is either people doing this sort of thing as a hobby or (maybe) at race to the bottom wages. (Or not at all--as is largely the case with machine transcription vs. human transcription.)

If I want mediocre text to speech, I have that on my Kindle.

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