How can this support more languages than the model itself?
Generate audiobooks from E-books with Kokoro-82M
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#32To people who are experts in AI TTS:
Why elevenlabs has such a lead in this space? It sounds better than OpenAI and Google models
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#33Can anyone recommend an open source option that would allow training on a custom voice (my own, so I'd be able to record as many snippets as it needed to train on) to allow me to use it for TTS generation without sharing it off my machine?
Edit: I'll wait to see if any recommendations get made here, if not I might give this one a go: https://github.com/coqui-ai/TTS
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#34"was trained on How the hell was it trained on that little data ?
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#35Can it also translate? I have family who would like audiobooks in German but most are in English only.
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#36I would for sure not want this for fiction, it's too obvious that the voice has no understanding whatsoever of the text, but it's probably pretty nice for converting short news texts or notifications to audio.
Your point is a valid one, but I want to add to it that it is also a matter of expectations and how one listens. Years ago, when I was dating someone who spoke Russian as one of her native languages, we had to do a funny compromise when watching films together with her parents: they didn't speak a word of English, so we'd use the Russian dub with English subtitles. I noticed that the Russian dub was just one man read…
It's not a "point", I didn't make an argument.
I dislike german and russian style dubs as well, I'd rather learn a bit of the original language.
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#37To people who are experts in AI TTS: Why elevenlabs has such a lead in this space? It sounds better than OpenAI and Google models
Does it? The podcasts created by Notebook LLM are completely convincing, at least in terms of voice generation.
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#38I would for sure not want this for fiction, it's too obvious that the voice has no understanding whatsoever of the text, but it's probably pretty nice for converting short news texts or notifications to audio.
Audible has thousands of books available "for free" with their membership that are all AI generated. I was the same in the start, but after listening to a few, it really comes down to the voice used. I spent 8h on a plane listening to 1 book, and there was maybe 5 occasions where i had an issue with the voice; and i think all where just "AI weirdness", similar to chat LLMs messing up simple sentence structure or imag…
I don't think dominant suppliers like Audible should exist so that matters little to me.
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#39On the one hand, this is very convenient. Probably cool for some non-fiction. On the other, some of my favorite audio books all stood out because the narrator was interpreting the text really well, for example by changing the pacing during chaotic moments. Or those audiobooks with multiple narrators and different voices for each character. Not to mention that sometimes the only cue you get for who's speaking during d…
I wholeheartedly agree. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Briggs got me hooked on Terry Pratchett's Discworld series. I loved "Going Postal".
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#40"was trained on How the hell was it trained on that little data ?
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