Thread: Audiobooks & AI
View Single Post
Old 04-24-2025, 02:26 PM   #9
salamanderjuice
Guru
salamanderjuice ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.salamanderjuice ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.salamanderjuice ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.salamanderjuice ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.salamanderjuice ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.salamanderjuice ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.salamanderjuice ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.salamanderjuice ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.salamanderjuice ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.salamanderjuice ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.salamanderjuice ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.
 
Posts: 939
Karma: 13014268
Join Date: Jul 2017
Device: Boox Nova 2
Quote:
Originally Posted by Quoth View Post
I tested Google's so called AI audiobook generation. Hardly better than Kindle DXG or Kindle 3 TTS. Oddly no better at all than "local" TTS using Google engine in Android with Pocketbook. Both inferior to 3rd party TTS engine on an old Huawei Android.

That was 2010, nearly 15 years ago. I had TTS on DOS & Windows before 1995 and wasn't much worse.


AI TTS may or may not be be using "AI".


But no, nothing so far comes close. It may not ever because a good narrator undestands the text. AI has no understanding.
What 3rd party TTS engine?

The modern stuff is IMO a lot better:

https://suno-ai.notion.site/Bark-Exa...2244ba45ebc2e2
salamanderjuice is offline   Reply With Quote