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Re: Eleven v3

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Post by riebschlager »

I didn't see anything about this in the documentation or prompting guide, but... is it supposed to be able to sing?

Since I am a fundamentally unserious person, I copied in the Friends theme song lyrics into the demo and what came out was a singing voice with guitar. In another test, I added [verse] and [chorus] labels and it's singing acappella.

[1] and [2] were prompted with just the lyrics. [3] was with the verse/chorus tags. I tried other popular songs, but for whatever reason, those didn't flip the switch to have it sing.

[1] http://the816.com/x/friends-1.mp3 [2] http://the816.com/x/friends-2.mp3 [3] http://the816.com/x/friends-3.mp3

Re: Eleven v3

#32

Post by razemio »

delgaudm wrote: post #22
artninja1988 wrote: post #2

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.

Just here to say the oposite. It is astonshing how far away it still is from a professional voice actor while being really good. Emotion is completely missing. Instead it seems to try to hard to express exactly that. I cant really put my finger on it. It feels predictable, flat and the timing is strange.

Re: Eleven v3

#33

Post by not_your_mentat »

lharries wrote: post #15
wewewedxfgdf wrote: post #9

I did not see an British accent example. Generally it appears the TTS systems all do US accents and the British accent tends to sound like Frasier - an American faking an British accent.

We have lots of great British voices in our voice library! Or if you want to hear an american trying to do a british accent add "[British accent]" at the start of the generation

I kept an English prompt, selected a French voice, and was delighted to hear an British English woman. :shrug:

Re: Eleven v3

#35

Post by gozzoo »

GrayShade wrote: post #21
lharries wrote: post #20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

can you try with a Romanian voice?

I'm not sure what you mean. I chose Romanian from the language selector and tried Matilda, Alice and Laura. Laura actually sounds like an English TTS trying to pronounce Romanian.

Exactly the same thing with Bulgarian voices.

Re: Eleven v3

#36

Post by NewMountain »

lostmsu wrote: post #5

Hm, is it good in all languages? Russian sounds very robotic.

There's something very wrong with the Russian one. The first example "Jessica | Tell History", is British woman speaking British English transliterated from Russian. It's absolute murder of the Russian language and painful to listen to.

The second example "Jessica | Record a commercial" is perfect. Confidence restored.

The third example "Laura | Help a client" is back to glass in your ears. This time an American is speaking American English transliterated from Russian.

Yikes. The English sounded fine, but the Russian has serious issues. Either there's a bug in your configuration (I hope) or your evals for Russian are unsound.

Edit: dial back the editorializing.

Re: Eleven v3

#37

Post by taf2 »

echelon wrote: post #29
zamadatix wrote: post #16

The (American English) voices are absolutely amazing but the tags for laughs still feel more like an "inserted dedicated laugh section" than a "laugh at this point in speaking" type thing. I.e. it can't seem to reliably know when to giggle while saying a word, "just" giggle leading up to a word.

They're also still too expensive, and that's creating a lot of opportunity for other players. Even though ElevenLabs remains the quality leader, the others aren't that far behind. There are even a bunch of good TTS models being released as fully open source, especially by cutting-edge Chinese labs and companies. Perhaps in a bid to cut off the legs of American AI companies or to commoditize their compliment. Whatever…

What would say are some of the best open source TTS - chatterbox maybe?

Re: Eleven v3

#38

Post by yawnxyz »

riebschlager wrote: post #31

I didn't see anything about this in the documentation or prompting guide, but... is it supposed to be able to sing? Since I am a fundamentally unserious person, I copied in the Friends theme song lyrics into the demo and what came out was a singing voice with guitar. In another test, I added [verse] and [chorus] labels and it's singing acappella. [1] and [2] were prompted with just the lyrics. [3] was with the verse/…

They have some singing in their demo! So I’m guessing that’s baked into the model

Re: Eleven v3

#39

Post by lharries »

zamadatix wrote: post #16

The (American English) voices are absolutely amazing but the tags for laughs still feel more like an "inserted dedicated laugh section" than a "laugh at this point in speaking" type thing. I.e. it can't seem to reliably know when to giggle while saying a word, "just" giggle leading up to a word.

If you edit the text so that laugh makes sense in the context it should be much more natural like this one: https://x.com/elevenlabsio/status/1930689782331412811

Re: Eleven v3

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Post by lharries »

not_your_mentat wrote: post #33
lharries wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

We have lots of great British voices in our voice library! Or if you want to hear an american trying to do a british accent add "[British accent]" at the start of the generation

I kept an English prompt, selected a French voice, and was delighted to hear an British English woman. :shrug:

If you'd like it to sound like a french person speaking french this voice works great: https://elevenlabs.io/app/voice-library?voiceId=xTZlmU8dKXdy...

Or if you want a french person speaking english with a french accent use that voice with "[French accent]" before it

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