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Post by jedbrooke »

skygazer wrote: post #77
landl0rd wrote: post #25

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Flip side is a solution where I can have a book without an audiobook auto-generated (or use an existing ebook rather than paying audible $30 for their version) and it's "good enough" is a legit improvement. AI generated isn't as good but it's better than nothing. Also, being able to interrupt and ask for more detail/context would be pretty nice. Like I'm reading some Pynchon and I have to stop sometimes and look up t…

If you're willing to forgo the interactive LLM bit, kokoro-tts (just a script using Kokoro-ONNX) takes epubs and outputs a series of wavs or mp3s that need to be stitched together into chapters or audiobook m4a with some ffmpeg fu. I've listened to several generated audiobooks, and found them pretty good. Some nice generic narration-like prosody. It uses espeak-ng to generate phonemes and passes those to the model to…

audiblez[1] does exactly that and handles the ffmpeg fu part for you, and will output a m4b file which audio book players will support.

1. https://github.com/santinic/audiblez

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Post by pinter69 »

theyinwhy wrote: post #16
pinter69 wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Right you are. I've used speechmatics, they do a decent jon with transcription

1 error every 78 characters?

The way to measure transcription accuracy is word error and not character error. I have not really checked or trusted) speechmatics' accuracy benchmarks But, from my experience and personal impression - it looks good, haven't done a quantitative benchmark

Re: Chatterbox TTS

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Post by theyinwhy »

pinter69 wrote: post #122
theyinwhy wrote: post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

1 error every 78 characters?

The way to measure transcription accuracy is word error and not character error. I have not really checked or trusted) speechmatics' accuracy benchmarks But, from my experience and personal impression - it looks good, haven't done a quantitative benchmark

Thanks for your constructive reply on my bad joke. I was referring to your original comment where you had a typo. I just couldn't resist, sorry.

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Post by jimjimwii »

chii wrote: post #114
iambateman wrote: post #73

Just a regular reminder to tell your friends and family to be extra skeptical about phone conversations. It’s becoming much more likely that the friend who desperately needs a gift card to Walmart isn’t the friend at all. :(

the easiest way to defeat phone fraud is to ahead of time decide on a verbal password between family (and close friends, if they're close enough that you'd lend them money). In a real scenario, they'd know the verbal password and you can authenticate them. Drum it into them that this password will prevent other people from impersonating you in this brave new world of ai voices and even video.

That is more or less what i did with my parents, but this approach is still susceptible to active mitm attacks.

2 factor authentication through a secure app or a trusted family member is probably also needed though i haven't tackled this part with them yet.

Re: Chatterbox TTS

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Post by probably_wrong »

iambateman wrote: post #73

Just a regular reminder to tell your friends and family to be extra skeptical about phone conversations. It’s becoming much more likely that the friend who desperately needs a gift card to Walmart isn’t the friend at all. :(

My family members speak Spanish with an Argentinean accent. From what I've seen in the space it looks like I'm safe.

Re: Chatterbox TTS

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Post by chii »

jimjimwii wrote: post #126
chii wrote: post #114

Earlier quoted context omitted.

the easiest way to defeat phone fraud is to ahead of time decide on a verbal password between family (and close friends, if they're close enough that you'd lend them money). In a real scenario, they'd know the verbal password and you can authenticate them. Drum it into them that this password will prevent other people from impersonating you in this brave new world of ai voices and even video.

That is more or less what i did with my parents, but this approach is still susceptible to active mitm attacks. 2 factor authentication through a secure app or a trusted family member is probably also needed though i haven't tackled this part with them yet.

> 2 factor authentication through a secure app

the problem is that the sort of emergency scenario in which family member would need the help is not often done or possible via a secured app. It's often just a telephone, with a number that you cannot recognize - imagine getting that phone call from a police station in the middle of nowhere when arrested, then you dont have access to any of your personal belongings as they're confiscated. The phone is a landline from the police station!

Therefore, a verbal password is needed, as this scenario is exactly how a scammer would present as the emergency that they need help (usually, wire some dollars to this account to bail out).

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Post by jeroenhd »

racecar789 wrote: post #108

I’d sign up for a service that calls a pharmacy on my behalf to refill prescriptions. In certain situations, pharmacies will not list prescriptions on their websites, even though they have the prescriptions on file, which forces the customer to call by phone — a frustrating process. I do feel bad for pharmacists, their job is challenging in so many ways.

Didn't Google already demo that with Google Duplex? It's not available here so I can't test it, but I think that's exactly the kind of thing duplex was designed to do.

Although, from a risk avoidance point of view, I'd understand if Google wanted to stay as far away from having AI deal with medication as possible. Who knows what it'll do when it starts concocting new information while ordering medicine.

Re: Chatterbox TTS

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Post by jeroenhd »

probably_wrong wrote: post #127
iambateman wrote: post #73

Just a regular reminder to tell your friends and family to be extra skeptical about phone conversations. It’s becoming much more likely that the friend who desperately needs a gift card to Walmart isn’t the friend at all. :(

My family members speak Spanish with an Argentinean accent. From what I've seen in the space it looks like I'm safe.

Public research and well-intentioned AI companies is all focusing on (white) American English, but that doesn't mean the technology isn't being refined elsewhere. The scamming industry is massive and already goes to depths like slavery to get the job done.

I wouldn't assume you're safe just because the tech in your phone can't speak your language.

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