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Re: ElevenReader

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Post by limo11 »

BoorishBears wrote: post #16
barrell wrote: post #6

Been using eleven labs for several years now. I was really impressed with their multilingual model a few years ago. Since then, they’ve released a few cheaper models, but the quality suffers greatly (they still have the old models though so it’s not an issue). They’ve also been releasing a ton of different products around TTS. I don’t mean this as a criticism — I just am curious why SOTA TTS has not improved from one…

The biggest challenge with TTS is high quality voice data. The architectures of closed providers still mostly trace their roots to stuff like Tortoise with a few exceptions. Which is why it's especially ridiculous ElevenLabs allows professionals to upload their voices, charges users of those voices a minimum of $50 per million characters, likely pays under $1 for the compute... and then passes on a whopping $2 back t…

Rev share is up to 20% on default rates (depending on notice period). With custom rates they can make their voice more expensive and earn up to $0.2 for every 1000 characters. So you can do the math.

Re: ElevenReader

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Post by ramonverse »

darkwater wrote: post #49

I know I'm growing old but this is the kind of tech application that I don't like. Arts should be the last thing to be 100% fully done by a program. Enhancing capabilities in artists? Hell yeah. Replacing completely voice actors? No, thanks.

AI voice is literally the only way I have to "read" an obscure article during 1h non-static commutes.

Re: ElevenReader

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Post by limo11 »

mkmk3 wrote: post #20

Damn, tried a unicornriot article [1] and it just skipped several paragraphs past the grisly stuff. Can anyone else confirm? [1] - https://unicornriot.ninja/2024/sextortion-coms-inside-a-vile...

Did you have some iconic voice selected? It skipped most likely due to inappropriate content. You can try with some non iconic voice

Re: ElevenReader

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Post by jeswin »

yreg wrote: post #45
jeswin wrote: post #41

The ad shows someone listening to an article or a story while driving a large vehicle - this is unsafe (depending on the individual). It's not like listening to music.

I'm curious, is there evidence it is unsafe?

I can listen to a song while coding. I can't listen to a podcast while coding. A podcast demands way more attention than a song.

1.2 million people die in road accidents, and most of them are children and young people. Even more are seriously injured.

Re: ElevenReader

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Post by gwd »

hiAndrewQuinn wrote: post #46

This is excellent. I just tested the Finnish voices on my simple news archive [1], and the pronunciation was quite good and clear. It's unfortunate that I can't export audio clips locally; otherwise I would immediately look into using this for generating my Finnish flashcard decks from the same material [2]. I've thought about doing the same with the audio and video feeds included with this news broadcast, but gettin…

> It's unfortunate that I can't export audio clips locally; otherwise I would immediately look into using this for generating my Finnish flashcard decks from the same material [2].

elevenlabs has an API which seemed quite reasonable when I looked into it. A bit of python should get you what you want pretty quickly.

Re: ElevenReader

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Post by elashri »

benrutter wrote: post #44

I've been looking for a good and convenient way to read papers that are published in PDF for a while. Ideally, I'd be able to strip out the text content and send it to my kindle in readable form. Since apparently that's science fiction, this looks like a really good plan B! Will definitely give it a go.

You can jailbreak you kindle [1] and install KOReader[2] and this will allow you to do this science fiction.

[1] https://kindlemodding.org/jailbreaking/WinterBreak/

[2] https://koreader.rocks/

Re: ElevenReader

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Post by cess11 »

jeswin wrote: post #54
yreg wrote: post #45

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm curious, is there evidence it is unsafe?

I can listen to a song while coding. I can't listen to a podcast while coding. A podcast demands way more attention than a song. 1.2 million people die in road accidents, and most of them are children and young people. Even more are seriously injured.

Are you saying you can't drive a car if passengers are talking?

If that's the case, maybe a driver's license isn't your thing?

Re: ElevenReader

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Post by zaptrem »

masteruvpuppetz wrote: post #36
neom wrote: post #19

Earlier quoted context omitted.

How does it hold up on long stuff? I use Elevenlabs Studio daily and once things start to get into the chapters long, the voice can really start to go off the rails. It'd say they've solved a lot of this over the past 2/3 months, but it does still happen on long stuff.

>> the voice can really start to go off the rails. Do you mean the AI gets tired?

In autoregressive models error accumulates over time. He likely means the voice starts to make odd sounds/gets lower quality. It would be really interesting if OP could share a clip of this phenomenon!
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