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Do you have a source for that? I don't think the printing press was the cause of religious wars any more than bullets were the cause of WWII
I blame canned food and trains for solving the logistics problems that previously prevented massive wars.
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> On the other, some of my favorite audio books all stood out because the narrator was interpreting the text really well This (and everything else with AI) isn't saying "you don't need good actors any more". It's saying "if you don't have an audiobook, you can make a mediocre one automatically". AI (text, images, videos, whatever) doesn't replace the top end, it replaces the entire bottom-to-middle end.
RIP to future top-enders that would normally have started out on the bottom to middle end.
I would love to have an e-reader that allows me to switch between text and audio at the press of a button. Imagine reading your book on the couch and then switching into audio mode while doing the dishes seamlessly, by connecting bluetooth headphones.
Literally started doing that this week with Amazon Audible. I gave in an started the three month 99c trial and downloaded the app. What surprised me a good way was my Kindle app was aware of this and asked if I wanted to download the audible version of the current book I am reading. Been listening on the way to work and then reading on the way back. Enjoying it so far.
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There's a big difference. Printing presses produce superior products. A mediocre audiobook is certainly better than no audiobook at all, but it is an inferior product to a well produced audiobook.
> Printing presses produce superior products. That seems like a highly dubitable statement. Many hand illuminated manuscripts are masterpieces of art. The advantage of the printing press was chiefly economical making the cost of a copy dramatically less, not an increase in quality (especially so by the aesthetical standards of the time).
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She only won in that OpenAI decided it wasn’t worth the trouble.
Yeah, by my ear it was pretty clearly not SJ’s voice-likeness, although there were some superficial similarities. But some people could have mistook it due to some regional accent similarities, though it would be akin to interpretation of any light southern drawl with a similar timbre as being SJ.
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> Printing presses produce superior products. That seems like a highly dubitable statement. Many hand illuminated manuscripts are masterpieces of art. The advantage of the printing press was chiefly economical making the cost of a copy dramatically less, not an increase in quality (especially so by the aesthetical standards of the time).
Many (most, if not all) hand-made copies contained errors, which printed books did not. They were much closer to 1:1 copies.
The quality is great (amazing even), but I can't listen to AI generated voices for more than 1 minute. I don't know why, I just don't like it. I immediately skip the video on youtube if the voice is AI generated. Might be because our brains try to 'feel' the speaker, the emotion, the pauses, the invisible smile, etc. No doubt models will improve and will be harder to identify as AI generated, but for now, as with dif…
Can 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
I also found DEMUCS + Whisper + pydub to be a super helpful combo for creating quality datasets.
I would love to have an e-reader that allows me to switch between text and audio at the press of a button. Imagine reading your book on the couch and then switching into audio mode while doing the dishes seamlessly, by connecting bluetooth headphones.
Kindles used to provide this feature, but publishers and/or the Authors Guild stopped it, because audio rights and text rights are handled differently. In other words, when Amazon sells you a text book, it does not have the right to then also do TTS on that text and let you listen to it. There's some contemporary discussion of what happened here: https://tidbits.com/2009/03/02/why-the-kindle-2-should-speak... I think…