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Amazon floods Audible with 40K AI recorded audiobooks
Posted on 5/6/24 at 2:35 pm
Posted on 5/6/24 at 2:35 pm
Voice Actors are on their way to joining buggy whip makers in the great afterlife of jobs murdered by new tech.
Movies are coming too, and SAG knows it. Looking forward to “new” Valentino and Bogart movies.
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A new breed of audiobook is taking over digital bookshelves – ones narrated not by professional voice actors, but by artificial intelligence voices. It's an AI audiobook revolution that has been turbo-charged by Amazon. Since announcing a beta tool last year allowing self-published authors to generate AI "virtual voice" narrations for their ebooks, over 40,000 AI-narrated titles have flooded onto Audible, Amazon's audiobook platform. The eye-popping stat, revealed in a recent Bloomberg report, has many authors celebrating but is also raising red flags for human narrators.
Movies are coming too, and SAG knows it. Looking forward to “new” Valentino and Bogart movies.
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Posted on 5/6/24 at 2:41 pm to DesScorp
Randy Travis is cool with this.
Posted on 5/6/24 at 2:43 pm to DesScorp
Do they sound like stupid robot voices?
One modern trend I hate with every fiber of my being is the stupid shorts that have an AI voice telling a joke. If I were King I would sentence the person who made that possible to "Death by Fleas".
One modern trend I hate with every fiber of my being is the stupid shorts that have an AI voice telling a joke. If I were King I would sentence the person who made that possible to "Death by Fleas".
Posted on 5/6/24 at 2:44 pm to DesScorp
Stuff like this is why the youth are becoming (economically at least) communist.
Unregulated AI will destroy 90% of professions
Unregulated AI will destroy 90% of professions
Posted on 5/6/24 at 2:49 pm to MTNviewTiger
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Unregulated AI will destroy 90% of professions
Technology and innovation has destroyed thousands of professions over the years. Humans adapt and overcome.
Professions die. New professions develop.
I'm a forward thinking observer of technology, but I think this issue is vastly overstated.
Posted on 5/6/24 at 2:52 pm to DesScorp
This is easy low hanging fruit for AI.
I really wonder how far we are from the game changing stuff like true full self driving and AGI.
I really wonder how far we are from the game changing stuff like true full self driving and AGI.
Posted on 5/6/24 at 2:54 pm to Bjorn Cyborg
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Cyborg
checks out.....
Posted on 5/6/24 at 2:56 pm to Bjorn Cyborg
You sound like a robot sympathizer.
Yep, checks out.
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Bjorn Cyborg
Yep, checks out.
Posted on 5/6/24 at 2:58 pm to jcaz
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I really wonder how far we are from the game changing stuff like true full self driving and AGI.
I feel like the more interesting things are healthcare related. Pretty sure AI in a few years will be able to blow away these 25 year nurse practitioners at walk in clinics in terms of diagnostic ability.
Or at least prescribe the same z pak with just as much confidence.
This post was edited on 5/6/24 at 2:59 pm
Posted on 5/6/24 at 2:59 pm to DesScorp
The guy that does Jack Carr’s books is fantastic and does a tremendous job. His name is Ray Porter.
I dont know how the AI voice will sound, but I’ve listened to good readings and bad readings, and the person reading the text makes all the difference in the world.
I dont know how the AI voice will sound, but I’ve listened to good readings and bad readings, and the person reading the text makes all the difference in the world.
Posted on 5/6/24 at 3:02 pm to LegendInMyMind
Did you not see my AI voice thread?
This is all AI voice. I just wrote the words and put in the prompts and built it
Saint George and the Dragon
It's not perfect, but it's definitely close. It's progressed A LOT in a year
This is all AI voice. I just wrote the words and put in the prompts and built it
Saint George and the Dragon
It's not perfect, but it's definitely close. It's progressed A LOT in a year
Posted on 5/6/24 at 3:07 pm to StringedInstruments
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Randy Travis is cool with this.
On one hand he is cool with this but on the other hand there is a golden band to remind him of those who wouldn't understand.
Posted on 5/6/24 at 3:09 pm to LegendInMyMind
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One modern trend I hate with every fiber of my being is the stupid shorts that have an AI voice telling a joke. If I were King I would sentence the person who made that possible to "Death by Fleas".
The stupid-assed fake inflections that make no sense at all. I’d rather talk to my TI-99/4A speech modulator.
It’s amusing on gps navigation “Turn right on Apple Street?” I’m like, I don’t know bitch, I asked you.
But the Shorts thing makes me irrationally angry.
Posted on 5/6/24 at 3:10 pm to DesScorp
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Amazon floods Audible with 40K AI recorded audiobooks
In another year, AI will will be flooding Amazon with 40k newly written romance novels and the next year will be flooding the Hallmark Channel with 40k terrible Christmas movies. The future of most entertainment will get old. Maybe people will instead enjoy live performances again.
Posted on 5/6/24 at 3:14 pm to Bjorn Cyborg
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I'm a forward thinking observer of technology
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Technology and innovation has destroyed thousands of professions over the years. Humans adapt and overcome.
Yeah and during these periods of change its often really bad for a lot of people for a long time until that adaptation
And past adaptation isn't a guarantee of future adaptation
Posted on 5/6/24 at 3:18 pm to DesScorp
I actually noticed this. There is a clear distinction when a book is read by AI. It's matter-of-fact, no emotion reading. They should be legally required to state when a book is read by an AI.
Posted on 5/6/24 at 3:19 pm to Boss13
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I actually noticed this. There is a clear distinction when a book is read by AI. It's matter-of-fact, no emotion reading. They should be legally required to state when a book is read by an AI.
I would def. like to see a disclaimer before I spend a penny on an audiobook.
Posted on 5/6/24 at 3:20 pm to LSURoss
Is any of them Natasha leggero mispronouncing words like in those shorts on YouTube?
Posted on 5/6/24 at 3:21 pm to elprez00
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Ray Porter
I've only listened to the Sci-fi stuff he's narrated, but he's easily one of the best in the business right now. Bobiverse series, Project Hail Mary, and Quantum Earth (Outland) series are all extremely well done.
Nick Podehl, Travis Baldree, and Tim Gerald Reynolds are another few that I'll take a listen for any book that they narrate.
Posted on 5/6/24 at 3:29 pm to VolSquatch
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Yeah and during these periods of change its often really bad for a lot of people for a long time until that adaptation
Some time the adaptation never comes and it stays really bad for a lot of people. Look at the agricultural south. Much of the poverty is due to farm equipment replacing manual labor. Instead of farms employing dozens or even hundreds of people, an entire farm can be managed by just a few workers.
Same with industrial plants and manufacturing facilities. But these jobs were offset by new jobs in new industries, unfortunately not always in the same geographic area or filled by the same displaced employees.
AI will create unforeseen jobs and careers and expand existing careers. And, yes, many careers will cease to exist.
What the net result is, no one knows. I think it is wrong to assume it will be negative.
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