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It'll come quickly for audio books. I've been working on a locally hosted, fully containerized web application to narrate my sci-fi novel using a full cast of c

• dormento 20d ago
  This is very interesting! Imagine Silly Tavern, with dialog tagging and coloring of some sort, auto-generated talking heads. Almost a game engine.
• ianmarcinkowski 20d ago
  I would pay a few actors (mostly Star Trek TNG cast) money for a license to their voice. I don't know how the next generation of beloved actors comes about and how we don't descend into a pit of neverending photocopies of things people once loved in the 1990s/2000s.
  • thangalin 20d ago
    From reddit: * $250 per finished hour for the narrator (lowest professional rate). * 200k to 270k words. * 22 hours, 20 hours, and 25 hours. * Books 1 to 3 cost $5,500, $5,000, and $6,250, respectively. My novel has 8 major characters, including the 3 narrators, and 25+ minor characters. That price tag is daunting, presumably in USD. This would mean investing $7,750 CAD in crafting an audiobook, which may not even sell, much less recoup the investment. In contrast, a locally hosted solution has a wallet cost of pennies for electricity plus my time to develop the system.
  • ChickeNES 20d ago
    > I don't know how the next generation of beloved actors comes about To me it's been obvious for a while now: there won't be one
    • unified101 20d ago
      "Celebrity" is an old world concept, and does not need to exist. it's find if we don't have them