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Convert E-books into audiobooks with Kokoro 82M.
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I’m curious enough to try this.
Audiobooks are made or broken by the quality of the narration. It’s not enough to simply narrate written word, the narrator has to “act” as well. Given the quality of other arts engaged by AI I’m going into this skeptical.
Love all works narrated by Kramer, also all the newest Discworld recordings (absolute masterpieces)
I never thought there was anything wrong with the first narrations. I hope those aren’t gone for good.
I've never listened to the originals, but I love that 41 books (I think, I'm on eleven now) have been read by the same actors (including Bill Neighy) throughout. Gives a great feeling of continuity. Every time Death speaks without the book hinting I think, "Oh something bad is happening to somebody."
I think the same. I don't think "Ai" would be able to give a correct intonation for each situations
You should give Ender's Game a listen, the one narrated by Harlan Ellison and Stefan Rudnicki (I borrowed from my local library). The performance is excellent.