What's /lit/s take on AI audiobooks?
>>25215011No point. I'll just do one for you. Which book? We will negotiate a price, and if it's one I like, I'll do it for free. Which book do you want read anon? I don't care.
>>25215011I use hoopla every now and then. I saw Timothy Tackett's French Revolution stuff there recently. Might listen soon.
The words are the book, who gives a shit how they get delivered to you? That said I find it much easier to concentrate on anything difficult with the written word. Audiobooks are for light reading like fiction imo. Voice actors are nicer but AI will do and is better than nothing.>>25216520You probably say uhhhh and ummm and breathe into the mic. I've listened to librevox I know what you people are like.
>>25215011I hope that the AI figures out what frequency of noise causes immediate seizures in humans and starts sneaking that into random audio books
ugly tacky SHIT
>>25215011Some books it works. Confederacy of Dunces for example.Some books it's a bad idea.
I just use the vanilla tts voice at 4x
>>25216538>The words are the book, who gives a shit how they get delivered to you?Why not use MS Sam if it doesn't matter?
>>25217895It sounds actively unpleasant. But I did, back when I was in college and had a long commute. It wasn't ms sam but it was one of the older shit TTS systems.
>>25215011The other day I saw that infinite jest has an audiobook, how the fuck does it even works?
>>25215011I don't pay attention to what I hear the same way I do to what I read. It simply doesn't work for me.
>>25215011I prefer a human voice actor/narrator, but if it's an obscure book that isn't likely to receive an audiobook version, I'll clean the epub file to just text and run it through elevenlabs' audiobook generator. Then I hit play and record it in audacity using my soundcard as an input. I recently made an audiobook for Sorcerer by John Minahan using an AI Burt Reynolds voice and it turned out really well. Charging money for AI audiobooks is pretty gay tho.
What are some good text to speech apps, preferably free? I've used Evie a lot but it doesn't sound very good. Obviously there are ones that are better.For instance, I found Origen's works read by one, and it sounds pretty good: https://youtu.be/-5IwJ_eO7HQ?t=1015&si=14KhhMCA0RxSu4H_
>>25215011For fiction, I don't see the point. Radio plays exist and are a superior use of the format.For nonfiction, maybe for things like history and philosophy, but not really useful for learning any of the harder sciences.
>>25218637Ignores footnotes t. Listened to the 80h audiobook
>>25219195Half of the book happens on the footnotes, then the book doesn't work.
