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Actors union SAG-AFTRA revealed specifics of its deal with the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers in a press conference Friday.

SAG-AFTRA reveals terms of ‘groundbreaking’ deal::Actors union SAG-AFTRA revealed specifics of its deal with the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers in a press conference Friday.

  • Knitwear@lemmy.worldEnglish
    144·
    8 months ago

    “Having an audio book that shifts voices and tone easy but can also include background noises”

    That’s not what you’re going to get. Even with A.I they all requires sound editing and reviewing and fixing errors which all costs money. We already have the tech to do A.I voice acting and I’ve tried a few. What we’ll get is what we have now, a single A.I voice with eerie intonation that modifies some words to their context but not others so it functions for a sentence but cannot emote a paragraph.

    • Touching_Grass@lemmy.worldEnglish
      32·
      8 months ago

      Are you saying that AI isn’t improving?

      I just read someone that said they listened to an audio book that did do this.

      • Knitwear@lemmy.worldEnglish
        31·
        8 months ago

        No I’m saying that when we get a new game changing technology things don’t tend to become better produced, they become cheaper to produce cheaply and quality be damned

        • abhibeckert@lemmy.worldEnglish
          21·
          8 months ago

          The thing is a lot of audiobooks aren’t being produced at all right now, or aren’t being produced to an acceptable quality standard (not because the narrator is bad, but because they and they editor weren’t paid enough to get it right.

          In this case, I think cheaper production would result in better audiobooks.

        • Touching_Grass@lemmy.worldEnglish
          12·
          8 months ago

          I think game changing tech is always better but we as consumers are complicit in allowing the erosion of the benefit because were complacent.

          Look at podcasts as an example. It beat the shit out of any other media at the time. Just hobbiest and funny people making content. Content that didn’t have any producers making sure people stayed on script. No ads, ever to interrupt or make creators panic about topics. Then rogan started pushing pocket pussies and everybody said its cool because its only 2 mins and skippable. Years later its now multiple unskippable ads on a paid service where we pay to avoid ads.

          The only time we could have stopped the current problem is when it wasn’t a problem. But we don’t have that foresight

          So game changing tech is great, if we keep it on track. Don’t let it erode.