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I am interested in TTS for reading web pages and LLM responses but it's too expensive. At this price point I can't look at it. I will continue using local TTS, not as great but instant, allows tracking text as it read it and works offline.
I am interested in TTS for reading web pages and LLM responses but it's too expensive. At this price point I can't look at it. I will continue using local TTS, not as great but instant, allows tracking text as it read it and works offline.
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But it's not an actual person. It's an "AI". Do you want a future where you don't hear actual people anymore? I want to listen to music, audiobooks, poetry, novels, plays, with actual humans talking, that's the whole fucking point.
What difference does it make?
It’s like having a robot that can give you a hand-job and someone saying, “well it’s a robot…” and you saying “what difference does it make?”
You tell me? What difference does it make talking with an old friend versus an ai simulation of an old friend?
What difference does it make seeing the artist who actually painted something talking about why they painted it, versus get sent an image an ai made in stable diffusion?
The difference is we are human and live in a society with other humans and we make connections with them because of their personalities, experiences, life story, emotions etc.
Perhaps you’re ok with staying alone at home with ai friends and ai generated everything but it seems quite strange to me.
English sounds really great, congrats! other languages I've tried doesn't sound that good, you can hear a strong english accent
German sounds okay.
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What difference does it make?
Are you seriously even asking that question? It’s like having a robot that can give you a hand-job and someone saying, “well it’s a robot…” and you saying “what difference does it make?” You tell me? What difference does it make talking with an old friend versus an ai simulation of an old friend? What difference does it make seeing the artist who actually painted something talking about why they painted it, versus ge…
Sounds absolutely amazing, like 99% indistinguishable from real professional voice actors to me. I couldn't find any pricing though. Anyone know what they charge for it?
Ouch. Professional Voice Actor here.
I don't know what the process is for matching voice actor to book, but that process is inherently constrained because the voice belongs to a real human, and I enjoy the output of that process.
That said, while Audible is kind of expensive, I'm afraid that they'll reduce their price and move to robot voices and I'll lose interest entirely despite the cheaper price.
From the example: "Oh no, I'm really sorry to hear you're having trouble with your new device. That sounds frustrating." Being patronized by a machine when you just want help is going to feel absolutely terrible. Not looking forward to this future.
It's also impossible to turn off in my experience. I have like 5 lines in my ChatGPT profile to tell it to fucking cut off any attempts to validate what I'm saying and all other patronizing behavior. It doesn't give a fuck, stupid shit will tell me that "you are right to question" blah-blah anyway.
That said, they probably also do this because they don't want the model to double down, start a pissing contest, and argue with you like an online human might if questioned on a mistake it made. So I'm guessing the patronizing language is somewhat functional in influencing how the model responds.
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We’re using elevenlabs in a new prototype, and it gets confused by its own voice which my mic picks up. Unless I wear headphones, it thinks I’m talking, and it gets into a loop. I hope this release fixes that bug!
This is not a model issue - you just have not properly implemented acoustic echo cancellation on your end.