Hmmm, I’ve heard these two voices, the language used and same format pop up in a number of places now and though while technically interesting, the novelty of it has worn off for me and it feels soulless and shallow.
No reflection on your great content but while I feel podcasting and the power of audio is such a great vehicle for emotion and meaning, this is IMO missing the mark for me.
I understand this is an experiment but having heard other people’s content ripped off by the same two voices, plus having spotted some suspicious emails and Substack accounts dropping into my own newsletter, I think it’s only a matter of time before none of us have a say as to whether our work is turned into a AI slop and plastered over the web without credit.
There is an upside, every little snippet of human-made audio we drop into our publications may now resonate deeper with the human listener as each stumble and flaw oozes authenticity.
Until the next models come out of course… and we can no longer tell human from machine ;-)
Aye, there's the rub --> how will humans be able to discern real voices from machine-generated voices? I imagine one evolution of this technology will be using our own voices to generate such content. That will make it even harder to know the difference.
You are more worldly than me. I had not heard the Google NotebookLM voices before so it was a bit of a lark to see what NotebookLM would produce and then to share it. I don't plan on doing this as a matter of course but it was an interesting diversion. It was novel for a moment.
Yes always good to experiment. I cloned my voice using Eleven Labs as an experiment and then a few weeks later while teaching in Paris lost my voice. I was able to continue commenting on their work in class with my artificial voice. Worked great in that context. They still got facial expressions and body language which made up for the slight weirdness. A few days later I returned to the UK (still with no voice) and joined in the morning net with my cloned one. I recorded it here... https://g5doc.substack.com/p/bicycle-mobile-047
I was listening to recent podcasts when this one started playing - I was really confused for 15 seconds and then I realized what you had done! It made me smile as I listened to the 'hosts' discuss the latest issue. The banter was hilarious! Thanks for the smile that made my morning......
I've been laughing about it since I heard it the first time. Not quite accurate, but strangely enjoyable, nevertheless. As one of my ham radio friends said to me: "That was very interesting, took me by surprise how entertaining AI made it, scary part is what can we believe these days..."
Hmmm, I’ve heard these two voices, the language used and same format pop up in a number of places now and though while technically interesting, the novelty of it has worn off for me and it feels soulless and shallow.
No reflection on your great content but while I feel podcasting and the power of audio is such a great vehicle for emotion and meaning, this is IMO missing the mark for me.
I understand this is an experiment but having heard other people’s content ripped off by the same two voices, plus having spotted some suspicious emails and Substack accounts dropping into my own newsletter, I think it’s only a matter of time before none of us have a say as to whether our work is turned into a AI slop and plastered over the web without credit.
There is an upside, every little snippet of human-made audio we drop into our publications may now resonate deeper with the human listener as each stumble and flaw oozes authenticity.
Until the next models come out of course… and we can no longer tell human from machine ;-)
Aye, there's the rub --> how will humans be able to discern real voices from machine-generated voices? I imagine one evolution of this technology will be using our own voices to generate such content. That will make it even harder to know the difference.
You are more worldly than me. I had not heard the Google NotebookLM voices before so it was a bit of a lark to see what NotebookLM would produce and then to share it. I don't plan on doing this as a matter of course but it was an interesting diversion. It was novel for a moment.
Yes always good to experiment. I cloned my voice using Eleven Labs as an experiment and then a few weeks later while teaching in Paris lost my voice. I was able to continue commenting on their work in class with my artificial voice. Worked great in that context. They still got facial expressions and body language which made up for the slight weirdness. A few days later I returned to the UK (still with no voice) and joined in the morning net with my cloned one. I recorded it here... https://g5doc.substack.com/p/bicycle-mobile-047
I was listening to recent podcasts when this one started playing - I was really confused for 15 seconds and then I realized what you had done! It made me smile as I listened to the 'hosts' discuss the latest issue. The banter was hilarious! Thanks for the smile that made my morning......
Mark VA3CPB
I've been laughing about it since I heard it the first time. Not quite accurate, but strangely enjoyable, nevertheless. As one of my ham radio friends said to me: "That was very interesting, took me by surprise how entertaining AI made it, scary part is what can we believe these days..."