ElevenReader
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ElevenReader
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#2This is so impressive.
No audiobook exists, drop epub into ElevenReader and have Bert Reynolds read it to you, honestly better than some human narrators.
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#3I would never trust the company that acquired Omnivore only to sunset it with 2 weeks notice to retrieve data.
Companies won't stop pulling this garbage unless we stop supporting them.
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#4I’ve listened to a few audiobooks on long drives, and have been surprised how hard it is to find good voices on audible. Often a book that might otherwise be good has a prohibitively annoying tone. So honestly the exciting thing here is the customisation.
That said, even in their cherries the emphasis still isn’t quite right in the Tolkien example.
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#5As a first impression, french sounding names should be read as french sounding, even in english text. The voice per se is ok, but as delivery goes (pausing, title vs content), it could be better.
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#6Been 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 model by one company several years ago, and why even said company isn’t able to improve on that model.
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#7Really glad these products are appearing!
So much of my time for "reading" is in a context where I can't physically read, so audiobooks are incredibly useful. But being limited to the set of books that gets recorded by the publisher is a real shame.
Haven't tried it yet but AI TTV seems basically perfect now so I'm very optimistic this will work great.
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#8This raises an interesting question around the rights of the author/publisher and who they sold their ebook rights to. If in 3 years we have a perfect AI voice that can read any book as good or better than mid-level narrators, why would you ever buy an audiobook when you could just buy the ebook and pick your voice(s). What a time to be alive
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#9Really glad these products are appearing! So much of my time for "reading" is in a context where I can't physically read, so audiobooks are incredibly useful. But being limited to the set of books that gets recorded by the publisher is a real shame. Haven't tried it yet but AI TTV seems basically perfect now so I'm very optimistic this will work great.
I'm interested for this reason too, even listened to AI TTS books before, but the issue is that they are very monotonous. The tone almost never changes, nor the pacing, it's all delivered with almost no variation which makes listening dull and easy to lose focus
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#10It seems that this is using one of the less refined models. In English it sounds like a 4th grader reading in front of a class. Kinda stilted word by word voicing with static pauses between words and no variation in intonation. Tried with two voices and both are the same.