Can we get a cheaper music-only subscription? Thanks!
I don’t give a shit about audiobooks, and I use a different platform for podcasts. I really don’t want to support Spotify spending unlimited dollars on Joe Rogan every other year. But they’re the platform with most of my music available, for now.
I’m as anti “AI” as they come but there’s a master Japanese carpenter on YouTube, Shoyan, who goes through the trouble of translating his commentary to English, someone proofs it because the grammar is usually perfect, and then runs it through a comforting racially ambiguous old man voice from ElevenLabs I think. And honestly? It works really well. It’s obviously not a natural voice but it’s not fake enough to be disorienting or annoying like the early types were.
Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works
on 21 Feb 23:45
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Yeah, but is there anything that’s not >$100/month to transcribe one book worth of audio?
Yes! Read a book out loud, preferably to your kids, recording each chapter as a file. Then use m4b-tool to combine all the chapter files into a full audiobook.
Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works
on 22 Feb 02:03
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Unfortunately my toddler doesn’t have the same reading interests as I… I also don’t know if I could handle listening to my own voice.
Nurse_Robot@lemmy.world
on 21 Feb 22:59
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Which will lower the cost to them, and will therefore lower the cost to the consumer, right?
… Right?
Darkcoffee@sh.itjust.works
on 21 Feb 23:38
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I’m glad I unsubscribed. Also, they kept pushing right wing nutjobs podcasts. Screw that.
CosmoNova@lemmy.world
on 21 Feb 23:45
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So rather than finally adding basic functionality for audibooks, which the app desperately needs, they’ll bloat their numbers with slop instead. But Spotify has always handled audiobooks exceptionally poorly so this is very on brand I guess.
Spotify would have to pay for added functionality. AI slop comes for free.
Oughtakyk@lemmy.world
on 22 Feb 01:10
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Spotycrap is crap, I’m glad I cancel my subscription and manage to patch the app, on the other hand, youtube music is superior and worth the subscription
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Can we get a cheaper music-only subscription? Thanks!
I don’t give a shit about audiobooks, and I use a different platform for podcasts. I really don’t want to support Spotify spending unlimited dollars on Joe Rogan every other year. But they’re the platform with most of my music available, for now.
Gross
It’s OK Spotify… I already left, you don’t need to convince me any more
Is there a public tool to turn a book into an audiobook now?
ElevenLabs is pretty much the premiere AI voice transcription service. It’s pretty wild.
I’m as anti “AI” as they come but there’s a master Japanese carpenter on YouTube, Shoyan, who goes through the trouble of translating his commentary to English, someone proofs it because the grammar is usually perfect, and then runs it through a comforting racially ambiguous old man voice from ElevenLabs I think. And honestly? It works really well. It’s obviously not a natural voice but it’s not fake enough to be disorienting or annoying like the early types were.
Yeah, but is there anything that’s not >$100/month to transcribe one book worth of audio?
Yes! Read a book out loud, preferably to your kids, recording each chapter as a file. Then use m4b-tool to combine all the chapter files into a full audiobook.
Unfortunately my toddler doesn’t have the same reading interests as I… I also don’t know if I could handle listening to my own voice.
Which will lower the cost to them, and will therefore lower the cost to the consumer, right?
… Right?
I’m glad I unsubscribed. Also, they kept pushing right wing nutjobs podcasts. Screw that.
So rather than finally adding basic functionality for audibooks, which the app desperately needs, they’ll bloat their numbers with slop instead. But Spotify has always handled audiobooks exceptionally poorly so this is very on brand I guess.
Spotify would have to pay for added functionality. AI slop comes for free.
Spotycrap is crap, I’m glad I cancel my subscription and manage to patch the app, on the other hand, youtube music is superior and worth the subscription
How are people feeling about Deezer?
People forgot that Deezer existed, long time ago.