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Kent Babin
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Trying out Amazon's virtual voice feature for producing audio books. - Choose between American, British, Australian, and American South accents. - Each chapter can have its own voice. - You get a decent level of granular control over pronunciation, pauses, and voice speed. - It will take quite a while to go through the entire book and set all the pauses correctly. The obvious drawback so far is that you don't have much control over intonation and inflection. You can't make character sound more excited or sinister, for example. Combine that with expanding the vocal library and specifying a voice for individual dialogue lines and you have quite a powerful tool. A new audiobook director/producer role will be needed to help writers get the most out of it.
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Tokenized Human
@tokenizedhuman
is this an ai provided voice if you want to release an audio book version of your work?
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Kent Babin
@kentb
Yep, exactly.
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Tokenized Human
@tokenizedhuman
Interesting. I'll have to check it out. Do you have to pay for it or is it done on royalty split like the normal ones? I bet there's uproar from voice artists about this. Was only a matter of time.
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Kent Babin
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It's still in beta, as far as I know. I was "selected" to test it with the two ebooks I published on KDP. It's free to use for publishing your audio book. Royalty rate is 40%. I do wonder if they're paying voice artists behind the scenes to provide the voice training. There are a surprising number of British, American and Australian accents out of the box. But every voice is in the 30-40 age range. But, ya, only a matter of time before the have every voice imaginable.
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