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Why isn't everyone talking about AI generated audiobooks? (reddthat.com)

submitted 10 months ago by PumpkinDrama@reddthat.com to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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I just listened to this AI generated audiobook and if it didn't say it was AI, I'd have thought it was human-made. It has different voices, dramatization, sound effects... The last I'd heard about this tech was a post saying Stephen Fry's voice was stolen and replicated by AI. But since then, nothing, even though it's clearly advanced incredibly fast. You'd expect more buzz for something that went from detectable as AI to indistinguishable from humans so quickly. How is it that no one is talking about AI generated audiobooks and their rapid improvement? This seems like a huge deal to me.

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[–] simple@lemm.ee 0 points 10 months ago (1 children)

A lot of people just aren't aware of how fast AI is moving. AI voices were pretty meh earlier this year. A lot of people working on the audiobook/voice acting scene have been talking about this though.

[–] driving_crooner@lemmy.eco.br 0 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I recommend everyone to check the YouTube channel "two minute papers" who have being doing videos about papers on AI for the last 10 years on so to see the accelerated progress AI have. Like 5 years ago those images generating AI looked like LSD infused dreams and now they look almost perfect.

[–] mindbleach@sh.itjust.works 0 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I'm only shocked that video isn't better. Diffusion models work like denoising - so you'd figure all the wiggly nonsense between frames would be the first thing to filter out.

[–] Turun@feddit.de 0 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I expect the data size to be a problem. Stable diffusion defaults to 512x512px, because it simply requires a lot of resources to generate an image. Even more so to train one. Now do that times 30 to generate even one second of video. I think we need something that scales better.

I fully expect this to work decently in a few years though, no matter how hard the challenge is, ai is moving really fast.

[–] Hexarei@programming.dev 0 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Stable diffusion can do arbitrary sizes now, as long as you have the VRAM for it iirc

[–] Turun@feddit.de 0 points 10 months ago

Of course, but that is precisely the problem. It gets expensive really really fast.

[–] LadyLikesSpiders@lemmy.ml 0 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Ah yes, Audio AI. I can't wait for this rapidly-approaching future where you literally won't be able to trust the validity of anything your senses tell you anymore

[–] AdmiralShat@programming.dev 0 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Imagine the day when people post videos of the president saying literally anything with pitch perfect audio voice synth

Imagine going to prison for a generated clip of you confessing to a crime.

[–] Helix@feddit.de 0 points 10 months ago

Guss we'll have to resort to digital watermarking with personal certificates then.