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.
I had some onboarding videos for a job that used AI audio. If they didn’t also have an AI person saying them I wouldn’t have noticed - and even then, the AI person generally looked real, it was only the way they moved their head and such in subtly repeated patterns that I could tell.