Is there any technology that can do separate voices for each individual person speaking in an audiobook?
ElevenReader
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#102Zonos is a new open weights text-to-speech model that has quality at least as good as ElevenLabs: https://www.zyphra.com/post/beta-release-of-zonos-v0-1
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#103I use ElevenLabs to narrate tutorials for my app and I’m a happy customer thus far.
Here is an example: https://youtube.com/shorts/UKjqrydITLA?si=iC7ehp6LmlLH0M-U
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#104Does this work for reading articles on websites?
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#105Zonos is a new open weights text-to-speech model that has quality at least as good as ElevenLabs: https://www.zyphra.com/post/beta-release-of-zonos-v0-1
When I type anything in their demo, it replies "I'm sorry but I can't I'm sorry but I can't..."
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#106Zonos is a new open weights text-to-speech model that has quality at least as good as ElevenLabs: https://www.zyphra.com/post/beta-release-of-zonos-v0-1
TTS is increasingly being commoditized.
Kokoro was posted and it works on webgpu, absolutely incredible quality for where it can run
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#107The company I work for has been using ElevenLabs to translate hour-long programs into Spanish, French, Portuguese, Greek, German, and Chinese. We have a large international audience, so it's worked great for this purpose!
Before, we were hiring people to translate, and then hiring others to dub the audio. Now, our files are automatically translated and spoken in the voice of the actual speaker, and we just have a small Quality Control team of native speakers quickly verify the results are accurate. We've reduced costs and increased the quality of our translated media.
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#108Been 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…
Why would you pay more than necessary to attract the voice talent you need? There aren’t (m)any businesses that pay multiples of market rates just to be nice.
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#109Earlier quoted context omitted.
"replace things that were done by humans" isn't a loss by itself, if it frees up human labour to do other things. If human replaced by AI can't find better things to do, such that it makes them poorer, or anti-social its a loss but not necessarily AI's fault.
Doesn't apply to all situations, but "replace things that were done by humans" in arts can absolutely be a loss by itself. Making graphics/speech/video a commodity doesn't replace designers, voice actors, or directors, but we've definitely see it can directly harm them and the people that enjoy their work. > can't find better things to do, such that it makes them poorer, or anti-social its a loss I feel like this mis…
How do you feel about what word processors did to the typist career?
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#110Earlier quoted context omitted.
> heading back into animalism Could you expand upon this? Any milestones towards that which we should be mindful of?
Technology is pretty quickly and apparently not only coming for our critical thinking, but our agency With llms, "knowing things" is already starting to feel like a thing of a past, not to me, but to a lot of others, there's no longer an incentive to "switch on". Why should a kid learn anything if a robot is instantly better at everything? Maths got replaced by calculators, deep critical thinking will get replaced by…
I’m sorry you’re stressed, but please at least consider that you may be falling into the generational “kids these days” trap. I’m old, so I have lived through the world being on the brink of disasters caused by AI, social media, gay marriage, violent video games, the internet in general, cell phones, pagers, nuclear weapons, television. Probably a bunch more world-ending crises I forgot.
The world is changing, but then again it always has been. IMO some things will get better, some will get worse, but ghe overall arc of human health and prosperity will continue upwards. There is less poverty, less starvation, more opportunity today than ever… even though some aspects of the world are bad and getting worse. That’s the way it’s always been.