{"id":43084,"date":"2023-02-15T11:30:00","date_gmt":"2023-02-15T11:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/smlp.co.uk\/blog\/?p=43084"},"modified":"2023-02-15T11:30:00","modified_gmt":"2023-02-15T11:30:00","slug":"al-talking-about-ai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/smlp.co.uk\/blog\/2023\/02\/al-talking-about-ai\/","title":{"rendered":"AI, talking about AI."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>So I have done a couple of YouTube videos lately where I have had to do voiceovers and despite spending the last 20+ years talking to people for a living I\u2019m not sure I like the sound of my own voice.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Well with all the new crazy AI stuff kicking about I thought that I would have a look at the one area that I have not looked into yet.&nbsp; AI text-to-speech (AI-TTS) and see if it can do my voice-over for me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If you don\u2019t already know most modern operating systems already have TTS built into the OS and considering they process on the fly they are not too bad.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I often use the iPhone accessibility \u201ctwo finger swipe down\u201d on my phone to read the current web page I am on when I\u2019m busy.&nbsp; When you use it at often as I do the quality of the voice generation feels more than sufficient to get through a two-thousand-word News article without any issues.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So how has AI and machine learning, large language models improved TTS?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Well here is a voice-over created in almost real-time speed of my last blog post about Bing AI search:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-audio\"><audio controls src=\"http:\/\/192.168.1.42\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/AI-Voice.mp3\"><\/audio><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><a href=\"http:\/\/smlp.co.uk\/blog\/2023\/02\/bing-how-much-crap-can-i-fit-in-my-shed\/\">Bing&#8230; &#8220;How much crap can i fit in my shed?&#8221;<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>This was made using eleven labs&#8217; Prime Voice AI. &nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It\u2019s fair to say there are quite a lot of usecases where a voice of this high-quality could be used.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"866\" src=\"http:\/\/192.168.1.42\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Screenshot-2023-02-13-at-08.36.48-1024x866.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-43086\" srcset=\"https:\/\/smlp.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Screenshot-2023-02-13-at-08.36.48-1024x866.png 1024w, https:\/\/smlp.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Screenshot-2023-02-13-at-08.36.48-300x254.png 300w, https:\/\/smlp.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Screenshot-2023-02-13-at-08.36.48-768x650.png 768w, https:\/\/smlp.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Screenshot-2023-02-13-at-08.36.48.png 1128w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Sign up for a free account to try it out the service at: <a href=\"https:\/\/elevenlabs.io\">elevenlabs.io<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So I have done a couple of YouTube videos lately where I have had to do voiceovers and despite spending the last 20+ years talking to people for a living I\u2019m not sure I like the sound of my own voice. 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