Really Apple? All this AI shit going around and the only thing Apple can think to use it on is reading a few books?
AI Audiobooks - Publishers seething
Really Apple? All this AI shit going around and the only thing Apple can think to use it on is reading a few books?
AI use completely useful for most shit.
what else would they do? text and image generation is a gimmick that doesnt give them anything. upgrading Siri is absolutely something that benefits apple
>AI move expected to cause backlash
Apple computers could read text since the 80s ffs. No one cares. Articles like this are a desperate effort to make AI sound like a far more disruptive technology than it is.
Maybe listen to the examples. They don’t sound like fucking Microsoft Sam, you retard. They actually have intonation now
cool
intonation! what a revolution! AI will grow world GDP 100%/year!
If you can’t see how automating more and more unique features of people can impact a market,
I can’t help you. You’re hopeless. Read McLuhan
AI is useful. I just don't see it as a huge revolution that some are expecting.
>implying he's wrong
Read up on protein synthesis. Sermons CEO is now confounding Isomorphic Labs. Tons of startups in this space. That will actually be a game changer.
Deepmind CEO Demis Hassabis**
That's a useful use case. not a revolution.
The read aloud feature in Microsoft Edge has some pretty good voices to pick from now.
People that think listening to an audiobook is the same as actually reading it are absolute retards. I only ever listened to Catching the Big Fish because it was narrated by Lynch himself. Learn about channels of thought
Absolutely, but you can listen to an audiobook while you drive or do chores around the house.
Audio books are really great for that. I also listen to one while trying to sleep. I'm listening to radio shows, though. There's a million of them on archive.org. Most of them aren't properly labeled, but can be found by searching through the full radio archives. They have full bbc radio 4 for decades back, so it's just a matter of looking at past schedules and downloading the right hourly stream.
Hey wordcel, you realize that 99.9% of human history was oral, right? Think of it this way: your whore mother.
not that moron, but oral transmitted stories are very rudimentary compared with actual literary prose, audiobooks are a fucking chore also.
>actual literary prose
>shakespeare was meant to be read in your IG-cottagecore lifestyle-pod with a cup of tea
lmao fuck off retard
Only because you're a brainlet with limited comprehension that has to reread passages in order to understand them. If you were alive in a pre-writing society, you would have learned by now how to listen properly and be able to both recite and summarize a passage after hearing it once.
>People that think listening to an audiobook is the same as actually reading it are absolute retards
You're right, it's not the same at all. Humans evolved telling stories around campfires for hundreds of thousands of years. Written language has only existed for 5,000-10,000 years, and the proliferation of books began less than 500 years ago. The spoken word is the proper way for stories to be told, books are purely archival media.
Not interested unless it can read whatever text I ask it to, pleasantly, with convincing intonation. Apple hobbled shit can fuck off
Can't wait to hear the narrator backlash.
>Fuck the blind, they should be forced to find and pay someone like me to read it for them. If they don't like their options, then too bad, maybe they should have thought of that before deciding to be blind.
https://authors.apple.com/support/4519-digital-narration-audiobooks
Here are the voice examples, OP too was gay and lazy
It's not perfect and clearly AI generated but apple are the trendsetters in tech and if consumers are willing to accept the less than perfect narration expect this shit to be everywhere in a couple years. I fully expect narration in all forms such as documentaries or video games to follow suit.
Apple never sets trends or implements new technology they're always 5 to 10 years behind.
yeah, not saying they innovate but other companies do follow suit and if apple starts pushing hard on AI TTS it could be a huge reflection point for the rest of the industry.
He means trendsetter as in when they do something, everyone else apes them, and he's right sadly.
I thought about it more and realized that Google made a similar move when they gutted community subtitles from YouTube and forced it to be AI only.
This is definitely the direction the industry the question.
What other services do you think these companies are going to drop in favor of shitty automation?
They've definitely already done it with moderation.
I thought it was going to sound better, to be honest. The examples have a very unnatural flow. I would rather read the book than listen to that for hours. Could be useful for blind people, though.
I feel like the non-fiction voices were noticeably worse than the fiction ones, for some reason.
Still, it is an easy choice for non-mainstream books to go with TTS vs not having an audio book at all.
narrators sound like robots anyways
stop listening to trash read by trash people
Me listening to an AI voiced audiobook written by an AI while letting an AI code and draw for me.
You could do this shit since forever, maybe not on apple devices but I swear that an ebook program I used had the feature. I don't listen to audiobooks though, and the only reason I could see for doing it would be the narrator was very good, which isn't gonna be the case for a computer voice.
Like all things, the machines will make mass market products but people will still pay for the people. If/When this becomes a big thing I can see a lot more celerity narrators getting in on this or more full on audio dramas of the book with multiple voice actors and music and everything.
Also I want audiobooks of fanfictions, if I have to settle for AI narrators I'll take them.
You realize they've had the ability to deepfake "celebrity" voices for a long fucking time, right? Did you not see the poast yesterday where some dude made Sam "lol" Harris out of 30s of training audio?
Hasn't this AI-voice narration been a thing since the 80s.
>voice "actors" upset about text to speech
big fucking yikes
record yourself on your desktop mic and play it back, it'll sound like shit and not for equipment quality's sake
speaking of book technology, why the FUCK haven't publishers used different shades of black or colors for individual character dialogue in books so you can visually see who a line of dialogue was spoken by without having to find a "x said" or going to the start of a conversation and counting lines?
Why are zoomers so profoundly retarded?
There are some books that have wildly confusing dialogue because seven different statements have been made without a single "x said"
A conversation early in the stars my destination comes to mind
Stick to illustrated books less than 10 pages long, zoomer.
moron I read more than you
Authors aren't flawless
Sometimes they shit up prose
dumb gay
>NOOOO you can't just destroy our livelihood, we entered into a social contract by which we'd devote our entire lives to a craft in exchange for having enough money to raise a family and enjoy ourselves to a limited extent before death! NOOO!!!!!
haha get fucked retard
t. person who hasn't yet been destroyed by AI
>AI powered art is "better" than human art
>AI powered chatbots
>AI powered audiobooks
>AI powered playbots
>AI powered X
Are you shitliords ready for an AI driven redefinition of reality. It's gonna be ultrashit
>Using the Wayback Machine on Wikipedia instead of its comprehensive and exhaustive history feature that shows you exactly which LGBTQ unemployed communist gays made the change and 5000 others like it, suspiciously in the daylight hours IST
Normies are insufferable
>it's a form over content reply
cunt
>using wikipedia at all
normalgays are gay retards.
>backlash
oh no, i might have to learn a useful trade that provides value to the community around me instead of recording myself reading books for people who are too lazy to read
>oh no, i might have to learn a useful trade
What are you gonna say when the trades are made obsolete?
can you pirate their AI model?