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Taeke
Feb 2, 2010


I tried the new Pratchett audiobooks and while the quality is definitely there with a superb cast of voice actors, I still prefer the older ones.

A large part of it is how they decided to do the footnotes in the new ones. For some reason they chose to open and close the footnotes with some bells, which 1) don't gel well and 2) are twice as long as they should be, so combined they just take me out of the narrative completely.

In the older audiobooks they were read by the same voice actor as the main narrative, only performed slightly quicker and with a faint echo which made for a quick humorous aside without interrupting the main story unnecessarily harshly. Just a quick aside, as footnotes are intented.

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Justin Tyme
Feb 22, 2011


Pepe Silvia Browne posted:

finally the dream of a fully automated morning zoo drivetime radio show can be realized

plugging chatgpt into the TTS bot to make a fully-automated mueller time podcast and watch the lib patreon money flow in effortlessly

Jel Shaker
Apr 19, 2003

i’m sure you could convince a zoomer that hitchhikers guide to the galaxy was originally an audiobook

Weembles
Apr 19, 2004

Jel Shaker posted:

i’m sure you could convince a zoomer that hitchhikers guide to the galaxy was originally an audiobook

It was originally a radio play, so it kinda was.

christmas boots
Oct 15, 2012

To these sing-alongs 🎤of siren 🧜🏻‍♀️songs
To oohs😮 to ahhs😱 to 👏big👏applause👏
With all of my 😡anger I scream🤬 and shout📢
🇺🇸America🦅, I love you 🥰but you're freaking 💦me 😳out
Biscuit Hider

ikanreed posted:

That's a great mod idea. Turn all Morrowind books into audiologs.

Lusty argonian maid here we come

mawarannahr
May 21, 2019

christmas boots posted:

Lusty argonian maid here we come

more Americans have read this than the Bible

christmas boots
Oct 15, 2012

To these sing-alongs 🎤of siren 🧜🏻‍♀️songs
To oohs😮 to ahhs😱 to 👏big👏applause👏
With all of my 😡anger I scream🤬 and shout📢
🇺🇸America🦅, I love you 🥰but you're freaking 💦me 😳out
Biscuit Hider

mawarannahr posted:

more Americans have read this than the Bible

trick question: it's from the bible.

Shear Modulus
Jun 9, 2010



Justin Tyme posted:

Video game characters work great because the voice sample clips used to train it are usually crystal clear to begin with

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fwBkR_qp20k
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jZSDJWXaEb0

holy lmao

freelop
Apr 28, 2013

Where we're going, we won't need fries to see



Weembles posted:

It was originally a radio play, so it kinda was.

Life, the universe and everything was turned into a radio play after Douglas Adams died.

Douglas Adams had said he always wanted to have a role within the radio play so the producer took the lines of Agrajag from the audio book version Douglas Adams read and added the sound effect of an umbrella opening and closing.

Justin Tyme
Feb 22, 2011



idk who this guy is (apparently some narrator that was popular in youtube poops back in the day) but the inflection/topic is funny as gently caress
https://vocaroo.com/1bu8BuxCMkPD

WHAT THE DEVIL! *nails the neighbor's dog*

Siminu
Sep 6, 2005

No, you are the magic man.

Hell Gem

ikanreed posted:

Alright, I really need jon irenicus doing the open palm slap one.

https://www.whyp.it/tracks/68746/irenicus-open-palm-slam-riddick

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p0aKgvMsbzk

Nothus
Feb 22, 2001

Buglord

Lmao

A Bakers Cousin
Dec 18, 2003

by vyelkin

Shear Modulus
Jun 9, 2010



sugar free jazz
Mar 5, 2008


holy poo poo

Shear Modulus
Jun 9, 2010



What would be a good one for HK-47 to read

sugar free jazz
Mar 5, 2008

Shear Modulus posted:

What would be a good one for HK-47 to read

bigpeeler


wait no that one dude losing his mind about the razr handheld god what was his name


kirk hell yeah his name was kirk, that dude's posts from the razer thread

Zetsubou-san
Jan 28, 2015

Cruel Bifaunidas demanded that you [stand]🧍 I require only that you [kneel]🧎

what a time to be alive

SplitSoul
Dec 31, 2000


:pusheen:

Al!
Apr 2, 2010
Probation
Can't post for 2 hours!

Justin Tyme posted:

Video game characters work great because the voice sample clips used to train it are usually crystal clear to begin with

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fwBkR_qp20k
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jZSDJWXaEb0

ok i suddenly decided that ai is good

Kuvo
Oct 27, 2008

Blame it on the misfortune of your bark!
Fun Shoe
https://twitter.com/coleman_francis/status/1621314847425052672

Al!
Apr 2, 2010
Probation
Can't post for 2 hours!
can i get dave barry reading 120 days of sodom

Real hurthling!
Sep 11, 2001




get captain falcon to read the nipplebandit post about level 7 of fzero gx

Justin Tyme
Feb 22, 2011


need a trump bot to talk poo poo about our favorite cspammers

plenty of clean samples from stupid presidential addresses and stuff, you can even sample from rallies for the authentic boomy mic

Siminu
Sep 6, 2005

No, you are the magic man.

Hell Gem
used up the last of my AI voice credits on nonsense.

Irenicus Dril Skeleton War
Irenicus Dril Logoff

ikanreed
Sep 25, 2009

I honestly I have no idea who cannibal[SIC] is and I do not know why I should know.

syq dude, just syq!

Oh wow, thanks.

That kicks rear end.

strange feelings re Daisy
Aug 2, 2000

Siminu posted:

used up the last of my AI voice credits on nonsense.

Irenicus Dril Skeleton War
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Lmao these are fantastic o7

RandolphCarter
Jul 30, 2005



Siminu posted:

used up the last of my AI voice credits on nonsense.

Irenicus Dril Skeleton War
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god bless you

ulmont
Sep 15, 2010

IF I EVER MISS VOTING IN AN ELECTION (EVEN AMERICAN IDOL) ,OR HAVE UNPAID PARKING TICKETS, PLEASE TAKE AWAY MY FRANCHISE

Shear Modulus posted:

What would be a good one for HK-47 to read

not counting the main monologue from I have no mouth and I must scream, also that one paradox forums guy about how how sunset invasion took away his ability to feel human.

PostNouveau
Sep 3, 2011

VY till I die
Grimey Drawer
Gonna need a Matt Berry AI stat so I can have it read me my emails all day

Biplane
Jul 18, 2005

All of these are terrible and you should all be ashamed of yourselves.

Kitfox88
Aug 21, 2007

Anybody lose their glasses?

Al! posted:

ok i suddenly decided that ai is good

Kitfox88
Aug 21, 2007

Anybody lose their glasses?

Biplane posted:

All of these are terrible and you should all be ashamed of yourselves.

stop using your posts as prompts

Zodium
Jun 19, 2004


lmfao

HootTheOwl
May 13, 2012

Hootin and shootin

Shear Modulus posted:

What would be a good one for HK-47 to read

galtse, but open with, like "quip:"

Tulip
Jun 3, 2008

yeah thats pretty good


ulmont posted:

not counting the main monologue from I have no mouth and I must scream, also that one paradox forums guy about how how sunset invasion took away his ability to feel human.

Wait I wanna read more from this guy who lost his mind from sunset invasion, what's the deal here

Ruffian Price
Sep 17, 2016

https://huggingface.co/spaces/juancopi81/whisper-demo-es-medium

How inefficient it was to type your thoughts in a single paragraph for others to read. Now you'll make (with the help of massive TPUs running 24/7) a multi-hour video essay that your viewers will then import into summarizing engines (with the help of massive TPUs running 24/7) to condense into a paragraph of text. The UGC explosion gets closer and closer to Bitcoin in terms of compute waste.

Orbis Tertius
Feb 13, 2007


way, way better than I was expecting. kind of unsettling really. also lmao

Line Feed
Sep 7, 2012

Seeds taste better with friends.

Ruffian Price posted:

https://huggingface.co/spaces/juancopi81/whisper-demo-es-medium

How inefficient it was to type your thoughts in a single paragraph for others to read. Now you'll make (with the help of massive TPUs running 24/7) a multi-hour video essay that your viewers will then import into summarizing engines (with the help of massive TPUs running 24/7) to condense into a paragraph of text. The UGC explosion gets closer and closer to Bitcoin in terms of compute waste.

This thing is hilarious.

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is pepsi ok
Oct 23, 2002

I do every move.

And I do every move hard.

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