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Elevenlabs is a lot closer to compelling audiobook narration (needs a better way to deal with multiple characters in a story without manual use of multiple voic

by janekm 3y ago

Elevenlabs is a lot closer to compelling audiobook narration (needs a better way to deal with multiple characters in a story without manual use of multiple voices): https://pub-a24da573c61f4b2d905bdebb2d0ecf88.r2.dev/ElevenLabs_2023-09-11T13_41_26_Readwell%20-%20Deep%20and%20narrative_gen_s50_sb75_se0_b_m2.mp3 https://pub-a24da573c61f4b2d905bdebb2d0ecf88.r2.dev/ElevenLa... (an H.G.Wells example I just asked it to read).

tkgally 3y ago
I was going to mention ElevenLabs, too. Their samples are very impressive in how the intonation and word stress are varied based on the text’s meaning. Their pricing is a bit high for personal use, though. (The link you posted seems to have been truncated. Can you try posting it again?)
- janekm 3y ago
  Yeah, sadly it'd cost about $100 to get a book per month... Not quite competitive with Audible yet, but give it a year perhaps, or a few iterations of the open source models... (fixed the link)
  - shaky-carrousel 3y ago
    100 dollars per book, right, but that book is public and can be shared between millions of people.
petemir 3y ago
ftfy https://pub-a24da573c61f4b2d905bdebb2d0ecf88.r2.dev/ElevenLabs_2023-09-11T13_41_26_Readwell%20-%20Deep%20and%20narrative_gen_s50_sb75_se0_b_m2.mp3 https://pub-a24da573c61f4b2d905bdebb2d0ecf88.r2.dev/ElevenLa...
- janekm 3y ago
  thanks!
MKTSPCLST 3y ago
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satvikpendem 3y ago
Any open source alternatives?
- janekm 3y ago
  None of the open source models I've seen are as "well-rounded", production ready as Eleven Labs. Though for example bark is really great at prosody: https://suno-ai.notion.site/Bark-Examples-5edae8b02a604b54a42244ba45ebc2e2 https://suno-ai.notion.site/Bark-Examples-5edae8b02a604b54a4... And piper isn't bad at speech quality: https://rhasspy.github.io/piper-samples/ https://rhasspy.github.io/piper-samples/ We might only be a few papers away from a good open source Elevenlabs competitor.

by janekm 3y ago

tkgally 3y ago

I was going to mention ElevenLabs, too. Their samples are very impressive in how the intonation and word stress are varied based on the text’s meaning. Their pricing is a bit high for personal use, though. (The link you posted seems to have been truncated. Can you try posting it again?)

janekm 3y ago
Yeah, sadly it'd cost about $100 to get a book per month... Not quite competitive with Audible yet, but give it a year perhaps, or a few iterations of the open source models... (fixed the link)
- shaky-carrousel 3y ago
  100 dollars per book, right, but that book is public and can be shared between millions of people.

petemir 3y ago

ftfy https://pub-a24da573c61f4b2d905bdebb2d0ecf88.r2.dev/ElevenLabs_2023-09-11T13_41_26_Readwell%20-%20Deep%20and%20narrative_gen_s50_sb75_se0_b_m2.mp3 https://pub-a24da573c61f4b2d905bdebb2d0ecf88.r2.dev/ElevenLa...

janekm 3y ago
thanks!

MKTSPCLST 3y ago

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satvikpendem 3y ago

Any open source alternatives?

janekm 3y ago
None of the open source models I've seen are as "well-rounded", production ready as Eleven Labs. Though for example bark is really great at prosody: https://suno-ai.notion.site/Bark-Examples-5edae8b02a604b54a42244ba45ebc2e2 https://suno-ai.notion.site/Bark-Examples-5edae8b02a604b54a4... And piper isn't bad at speech quality: https://rhasspy.github.io/piper-samples/ https://rhasspy.github.io/piper-samples/ We might only be a few papers away from a good open source Elevenlabs competitor.