He built a hit podcast about the Epstein files. It's AI-generated

(fastcompany.com)

5 points | by speckx 5 hours ago ago

4 comments

  • Bender 4 hours ago ago

    Does AI give people a way to correct pronunciation of names and words? If so are people prompted to review and correct the end result? Genuinely curious I have never tried to make something like this but it might be fun if I can use a celebrities voice to read out my dumb blog.

    • vunderba 3 hours ago ago

      There's a number of ways to do it. Some of them will let you create a override table that uses the IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet).

      In the past, when I used the local KokoroTTS model, I did something a bit more primitive for longer texts where it constantly mispronounced a word: a pre-TTS pass with regex to replace those words with a phonetic-sounding equivalent that worked more consistently (e.g. replacing “Danish” with “Day-nish.”)

  • jazz9k 4 hours ago ago

    My wife listens to a bunch of true crime podcasts and many use the same voice. I've also heard this voice in commercials and Youtube videos that are clearly AI generated.

    • svelle 4 hours ago ago

      It's the NotebookLM podcast generator voices, it just does it for you once you add all the data to NLM.