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It sounds a bit off. But if you're not looking for it, you won't find it. That, I believe, is enough to fool most everyone, which is arguably a bad thing.
At first, I thought it said it likes peanut butter & people sandwiches, and was like, WTF???? 🫥
For reference, this is what Maya reminds me of, Merle Dandridge, VA for Half Life 2's Alyx Vance.
I've skipped to some slower commentary, just so that you can kinda see what a human and AI can sound like with similar pacing while reflecting on a question:
Yeah I immediately disregard all AI propaganda that references "Her." This is for rubes and suckers.
I totally get what you're saying but did you listen to the recordings? This might be a breakthrough.
But is it that different than the podcasts voices Google already generate with NotebookLM since a while ago?
I used Notebook LM to create a ten minute podcast but it took a lot of repeated attempts with tweaks of the prompt to make sure there was no stupid mispronouncing. Even the final product required editing out two words which were not even human (just glitches).
Not understanding pronunciation of words is to be expected, especially when they are acronyms but sometimes it was really dumb grammar.
Still very impressive but not quite there yet.
Or go try the demo. It IS eerily uncanny. It's not at the point where it would fool you for long, but it's close enough to get caught up in it from time to time.
Lmfao, perish the thought
Wow, Jesus. Maya has the same conversational style that Merle Dandridge has in the Half Life 2 commentary tracks (in commentary mode).
That is, even for AI, eerily good. Honestly, I'm not sure if I could always tell them apart if I was fed a bunch of voice clips blind, and asked which ones were human, and which were AI.