Have AI Read Your Writing to You!

[Marscaleb]

I dunno, I tried one of those audiobooks with all the music and sound fx and different narrators, and I just couldn't get into it.

At some point you might as well just call it a radio drama.

 

[skip.knox]

TTS has been available for years. I'm not sure what AI could add. Are we just talking about more realistic voices?

I actually like the robotic voice. I'm not looking to have the story read. I'm looking for mistakes and places to correct. The stilted cadences of robot voice tend to highlight that.

In general, coming to the text from multiple angles is always useful. Print it. Use another font. Read aloud yourself. Have the computer read it. All good.

 

[pmmg]

I will say, the idea of being able to us an AI to create an audio book does appeal to me, but I will not likely go this route. My suspicion is the learning curve to get it all right will not out weigh just getting someone professional to read it.

Reading it to help me find errors is not much different than TTS. I could see doing this, but so far I have not.

 

[Prince of Spires]

TTS has been available for years. I'm not sure what AI could add. Are we just talking about more realistic voices?

It makes it easier to get money from investors if you claim there's AI in there, and it gets you aboard the AI-hype train. AI at the moment, for some people, AI simply means there's a computer in there using an algorythm to make it work without a human guiding it along the different steps.