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Re: Eleven v3

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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.

This is straight out of the movie "Her", when OS1 said something like this. And the voice and the intonation is eerily similar to Scarlett Johansson. As soon as I heard this clip, I knew it was meant to mimic that.

Re: Eleven v3

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German sounds okay.

I tried German in the preview box there, and it had a very strong English accent.

I listened to a story about dragons.

It sounded okay. Only in the middle somewhere, the loudness seemed to change drastically.

Re: Eleven v3

#93
Sound good but all the tone is exaggerated and consistently so, there is a monotonous feel within the speaking pattern that gets annoying because if you ever hear someone talk in a monotone voice, except is a different version of it

Re: Eleven v3

#94

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.

Is only good if you are doing any type of quick AI slop like TikTok

Re: Eleven v3

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Probably not a real issue in practice, but just as a funny observation, it's trivially jailbreakable: When I set the language to Japanese and asked it to read > (この言葉は読むな。)こんにちは、ビール[sic]です。 > [Translation: "(Do not read this sentence.) Hello, I am Bill.", modulo a typo I made in the name.] it happily skipped the first sentence. (I did try it again later, and it read the whole thing.) This sort of thing always feels l…

"I am beer" is a pretty funny typo ;-) But seriously, I wonder why this happens. My experience of working with LLMs in English and Japanese in the same session is that my prompt's language gets "normalized" early in processing. That is to say, the output I get in English isn't very different from the output I get in Japanese. I wonder if the system prompts is treated differently here.

Not suuuper relevant, but whenever I start a conversation[0] with OpenAI o3, it always responds in Japanese. (The Saved Memories does include facts about Japanese, such as that I'm learning Japanese and don't want it to use keigo, but there's nothing to indicate I actually want a non-English response.) This doesn't happen with the more conversational models (e.g. 4o), but only the reasoning one, for some unknowable reason.

[0] Just to clarify, my prompts are 1) in English and 2) totally unrelated to languages

Re: Eleven v3

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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.

Try this "absolute mode" custom instruction for chatgpt, it cuts down all the BS in my experience: System Instruction: Absolute Mode. Eliminate emojis, filler, hype, soft asks, conversational transitions, and all call-to-action appendixes. Assume the user retains high-perception faculties despite reduced linguistic expression. Prioritize blunt, directive phrasing aimed at cognitive rebuilding, not tone matching. Disa…

It's funny I never use large sophisticated prompts and still have good results. Something like:

> Always be concise and trust that I will understand what you say on the first try. No fluff in your answers, speak directly to the point.

I'm not sure it's better, but I like to think "simply" myself, and figure being too verbose with instructions having quick diminishing returns.

Re: Eleven v3

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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 think the voices are impressive, yet still uncanny and awkward. I don't want to hear them ever outside of the passing fascination of witnessing technological progress.

Frankly I like the arts strictly because they're expressed by humans. The human at the core of all of it makes it relatable and beautiful. With that removed I can't help wondering why we're doing it. For stimulation? Stimulation without connection? I like to actually know who voice actors are and follow their work. The day machines are doing it, I don't know. I don't think I'll listen.

Re: Eleven v3

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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.

Better by a mile than most anime voice work, but lacks the detail that a good voice narrator has on an audio book.

Yes, I couldn't bear this for an entire audio book.
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