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by purplepatrick 1249 days ago
Still sounds pretty fake to me. There’s a hurriedness to the speech and a monotonic uniformity in enunciation that is uncannily machine. Good to know that voice actors will have jobs for a while longer…
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I thought the Narrative one was 100% there. I'd still give the News one 99% and Conversational 98%.
Yes, for the sake of humanity, I hope the examples are cherry picked and The lord of the rings audiobook is in the train set...
> Good to know that voice actors will have jobs for a while longer…

They don’t have to work anymore, just sell their voice and sit at home collecting royalty payments is the future according the TFA.

And they’ve been making progress on the roboticness with every new model that comes out. Just a matter of time (and data) for the AIs to figure out how words string together naturally.

This assumes that legislation/ajudication won't tell AI companies that grabbing any content they can find and not reimburse the original author is "fair use" or something equivalent in other jurisdictions. Here's to hoping.
The random voice generator is pretty bad but sometimes you actually get a reasonably good voice except you can hear clicking sounds that interrupt the voice.
Yeah right. You would never pass a blind test on this.
I think the narritive one would pass a blind test.

The conversational one wouldn't, although it could pass for a bad (human) voice actor.