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Show HN: Dia, an open-weights TTS model for generating realistic dialogue

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652 points toebee | 1 comments | 21 Apr 25 17:07 UTC | HN request time: 0.276s | source
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Versipelle ◴[21 Apr 25 18:27 UTC] No.43754941[source]▶
This is really impressive; we're getting close to a dream of mine: the ability to generate proper audiobooks from EPUBs. Not just a robotic single voice for everything, but different, consistent voices for each protagonist, with the LLM analyzing the text to guess which voice to use and add an appropriate tone, much like a voice actor would do.

I've tried "EPUB to audiobook" tools, but they are really miles behind what a real narrator accomplishes and make the audiobook impossible to engage with

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azinman2 ◴[21 Apr 25 20:16 UTC] No.43755991[source]▶
Wouldn’t it be more desirable to hear an actual human on an audiobook? Ideally the author?
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1. Versipelle ◴[21 Apr 25 21:39 UTC] No.43756799[source]▶
> Wouldn’t it be more desirable to hear an actual human on an audiobook? Ideally the author?

Of course, but it's not always available.

For example, I would love an audiobook for Stanisław Lem's "The Invincible," as I just finished its video game adaptation, yet it simply doesn't exist in my native language.

It's quite seldom that the author narrates the audiobooks I listen to, and sometimes the narrator does a horrible job, butchering the characters with exaggerated tones.