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?

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  1. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    AI use completely useful for most shit.

  2. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    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

  3. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    >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.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Maybe listen to the examples. They don’t sound like fricking Microsoft Sam, you moron. They actually have intonation now

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        cool

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        intonation! what a revolution! AI will grow world GDP 100%/year!

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          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

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            AI is useful. I just don't see it as a huge revolution that some are expecting.

            • 1 year ago
              Anonymous
              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                >implying he's wrong

            • 1 year ago
              Anonymous

              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.

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                Deepmind CEO Demis Hassabis**

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                That's a useful use case. not a revolution.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        The read aloud feature in Microsoft Edge has some pretty good voices to pick from now.

  4. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    People that think listening to an audiobook is the same as actually reading it are absolute morons. I only ever listened to Catching the Big Fish because it was narrated by Lynch himself. Learn about channels of thought

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Absolutely, but you can listen to an audiobook while you drive or do chores around the house.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        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.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Hey wordcel, you realize that 99.9% of human history was oral, right? Think of it this way: your prostitute mother.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        >People that think listening to an audiobook is the same as actually reading it are absolute morons
        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 that Black person, but oral transmitted stories are very rudimentary compared with actual literary prose, audiobooks are a fricking chore also.

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          >actual literary prose
          >shakespeare was meant to be read in your IG-cottagecore lifestyle-pod with a cup of tea
          lmao frick off moron

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          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.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      >People that think listening to an audiobook is the same as actually reading it are absolute morons
      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.

  5. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Not interested unless it can read whatever text I ask it to, pleasantly, with convincing intonation. Apple hobbled shit can frick off

  6. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Can't wait to hear the narrator backlash.
    >Frick 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.

  7. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    https://authors.apple.com/support/4519-digital-narration-audiobooks

    Here are the voice examples, OP too was gay and lazy

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      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.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        Apple never sets trends or implements new technology they're always 5 to 10 years behind.

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          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.

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          He means trendsetter as in when they do something, everyone else apes them, and he's right sadly.

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            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.

            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.

            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.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      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.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        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.

  8. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    narrators sound like robots anyways

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      stop listening to trash read by trash people

  9. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Me listening to an AI voiced audiobook written by an AI while letting an AI code and draw for me.

  10. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    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.

  11. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    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.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      You realize they've had the ability to deepfake "celebrity" voices for a long fricking time, right? Did you not see the poast yesterday where some dude made Sam "lol" Harris out of 30s of training audio?

  12. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Hasn't this AI-voice narration been a thing since the 80s.

  13. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    >voice "actors" upset about text to speech
    big fricking yikes

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      record yourself on your desktop mic and play it back, it'll sound like shit and not for equipment quality's sake

  14. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    speaking of book technology, why the FRICK 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?

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Why are zoomers so profoundly moronic?

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        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

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          Stick to illustrated books less than 10 pages long, zoomer.

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            Black person I read more than you
            Authors aren't flawless
            Sometimes they shit up prose

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        Stick to illustrated books less than 10 pages long, zoomer.

        dumb homosexual

  15. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    >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 fricked moron
    t. person who hasn't yet been destroyed by AI

  16. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    >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

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      >Using the Wayback Machine on Wikipedia instead of its comprehensive and exhaustive history feature that shows you exactly which LGBTQ unemployed communist homosexuals made the change and 5000 others like it, suspiciously in the daylight hours IST
      Normies are insufferable

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        >it's a form over content reply
        c**t

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        >using wikipedia at all
        normalgays are gay morons.

  17. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    >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

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      >oh no, i might have to learn a useful trade
      What are you gonna say when the trades are made obsolete?

  18. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    can you pirate their AI model?

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