The ad shows someone listening to an article or a story while driving a large vehicle - this is unsafe (depending on the individual). It's not like listening to music.
ElevenReader
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#42The video shows scenarios of people listening to pdfs of pretty dense material (e.g., computer science, bio mechanics). Does anyone here actually have positive results doing this? It seems to me listening to anything that's even remotely complex with the intent of learning it just isn't something that's feasible.
That’s my biggest gripe with audiobooks: good for fiction, not so good for learning.
For me they are actually best for non-fiction, but it has to be books. Papers are too information dense.
I get easily distracted and lose attention while listening to an audiobook. This is usually problematic with fiction, because suddenly I don't know who this new character is or what's happening. And rewinding to the precise position where I stopped paying attention is of course much more difficult than in written text.
I found that non-fiction books work great for me, because even if you ignore a page or two it makes no difference, the author keeps repeating their point and propping it up with many arguments anyway.
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#43The best ive heard but still too monotone over time compared too real productions. Feel blown away at first but listen a chapter or two gets difficult. Just a matter of time most likely until it becomes as good or better then the real thing.
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#44I've been looking for a good and convenient way to read papers that are published in PDF for a while.
Ideally, I'd be able to strip out the text content and send it to my kindle in readable form. Since apparently that's science fiction, this looks like a really good plan B! Will definitely give it a go.
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#45The ad shows someone listening to an article or a story while driving a large vehicle - this is unsafe (depending on the individual). It's not like listening to music.
I'm curious, is there evidence it is unsafe?
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#46This is excellent. I just tested the Finnish voices on my simple news archive [1], and the pronunciation was quite good and clear.
It's unfortunate that I can't export audio clips locally; otherwise I would immediately look into using this for generating my Finnish flashcard decks from the same material [2]. I've thought about doing the same with the audio and video feeds included with this news broadcast, but getting Whisper to sync up properly with what's written down and cutting up the raw audio in that way still seems like more effort than I'm willing to invest right now.
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#47This 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
I guess it's the same with other jobs: AI will replace the mid/low quality workers, but the good ones will keep delivering something AI can't.
Two audiobooks that come to my mind:
- The Lord of the Ring series read by Andy Serkis; not only he perfectly switches between each characters voice, but also the feeling of listening "Gollum" for ours is something else altogether
- David Goggins' books; the audiobook version is completely different than the book, since he's not just reading the book, and overall it makes the content easier to digest
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#48The video shows scenarios of people listening to pdfs of pretty dense material (e.g., computer science, bio mechanics). Does anyone here actually have positive results doing this? It seems to me listening to anything that's even remotely complex with the intent of learning it just isn't something that's feasible.
Severe dyslexia here, but ask me about any conversation or audio book or class I've listened to. Gimme anything audio and gimme it at 1.5x plz! I spend so much money gen'ing audio these days but it's soooo nice to be able to learn so quickly now.
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#49I know I'm growing old but this is the kind of tech application that I don't like. Arts should be the last thing to be 100% fully done by a program. Enhancing capabilities in artists? Hell yeah. Replacing completely voice actors? No, thanks.
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#50Hasn't this been around for ~4 months? Interesting to see this here, since their competitor Zyphra, just released two Apache 2.0 licensed open weights TTS models yesterday[1].