🧩AI Audiobooks - Promise vs. Reality - Watch as we untangle AI audio myths from reality,.

Despite the hype around AI narration, creating a professional-quality, human-like 5-hour audiobook suitable for platforms like Audible is still a demanding process with current AI capabilities.
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Episode 43 Playlist
00:00 AI Audiobooks promise it's easy
01:20 PROMISE: How to create an audiobook
03:04 Audiobook Platforms
04:37 Professional Voice Cloning
07:28 Cloning Voice from CZcams Vids - NOPE!
09:09 Pozatron - AI Audio Editor - Words that don't work
11:08 Choosing between AI Audio and Human narration
12:52 Record yourself for 1-3 hours to make it work well
14:41 ACX Submission Requirements
The promise says it's so, but still, within 30 minutes of evaluation,
It's easier to record the book than to have AI do it....in this case, AI doubles the time it takes; GAME OVER!
Maybe audio and video jobs are an early growth sector because it takes time to get audio that is good enough for Audible.
We’ll cover what to do, what not to do, and what it means for AI audio in the short and long terms.
1. PROMISE: How to create an audiobook
2. REALITY the facts of AI - even with cloning, you must record a specific amount of time, preferably more.
3. Why can't you get on Audible with an AI audiobook yet?
AI narration is accessible to almost anyone, making audiobooks available to more people beyond the high-quality Audible tier.
As AI improves, it may eventually master human narration's authenticity, nuance, and listener experience. But the "promise" of effortless AI audiobook creation remains mostly hype.

[@dwyerwk]

You've saved me so much trouble! I was knee-deep into looking into this latest shiny object called AI voice cloning, and there seem to be like 15-20 vendors doing each service in their own particular way. Very hard to compare. And TBH all along my intuition had been telling me that using a voice actor would be hands down better quality than doing it on the cheap with this AI crap. I have to say though it was/still is super tempting -- the idea of just recording 30 minutes or so of my own voice and then pushing a button to create an audio version of my book. I suppose if I had a non-fiction book or something where the primary purpose was to simply deliver the words AI would be completely fine, but as you've pointed out, for novels like mine, where there is a story to be told by a 1st person narrator, and there are various characters (with presumably interesting personalities), settings varying anywhere from a quiet coffee shop to the middle of a firefight in Iraq, and several different accents, both from country of origin as well as a character's own role-playing in a conversation, this just would not be something I'd expect AI could possibly do well, unless it could pick up on semantic meaning, and this means a lot more than parsing exclamation marks or dialogue tags like "he said, excitedly", which by the way is expository writing -- something good authors generally avoid. They also avoid long, rambling run-on sentences, lol.

[@DeclanDunn]

Glad it helped, with all those characters it's hard even for professionals. I could see this happening in a few years, though inflection of meaning, accents, things that take actors time to learn and perform.
that's the one thing that keeps sticking out; human performance is not linear or predictable, and AI is. Best of luck with your book!