Imagine a youtube channel shoved your novel into a reading AI to get ads revenue

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I do this but at least I do it as a form of feedback and with the author's permission as I want to help get their story out there. Plus, I do actual readings rather than shitty AI voices. My editing quality may not be the best at the moment but I'm working on it.
 
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About twice a month I do a google search to see if anyone had used my work without my permission. Tbh, I wouldn't mind that much as long as they aren't doing 1 of 2 things.

1. Not linking somewhere to the original work and or patreon.

2. Selling it as an actual book. I intend to do a rewrite to sell it, and that'd really piss me off.
 
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that depends on how the YouTuber identified themselves as ..

are they female.. if so are they cute ..

ahm .. will they be open for future collaborations..

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This got me thinking...

You really need an AI for the narration parts, but if you had say.... two female and four males, with each voice actor able to do more rgat two different speaking styles, you could easily churn out voice adaptations of any story.

I found that pitch and prosedy alterations with audacity allowed you to make three different versions of any voice style, so you could easily have 6 female and 12 male with such a set up.

Now with an echo reverb, you could make any voice the 'thinking' voice. So, with an AI handling the bulk of the grunt work (which you would want, a level narrator voice is totally worth it.) You could splice in the human readings...

So... a TTMP3 free is about 3000 characters max a pass... 2k words a chapter... 18k characters average, so... say... 10 mp3 files, you could spice it together in Audacity, take about.... let's say... 5 people to get all the voices, 2 man hours a person, with the editor needing... 9 man hours... including a selection of copyright free background music....


You could slam out 2 chapters a week, if you had 6 people committed to the project. If you only have two, but they are experienced, I'd say... depends on the book. But a chapter a week.

A good chapter a week.

I wonder if there is a market for this.
 
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TheEldritchGod said:
I wonder if there is a market for this.
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Many people left Webnovel when they stopped letting them read on the browser version of the site and only let them read a chapter in full if they used the app. Many were outraged because the text-to-speech extensions don't work on the app, only in a browser.

That is the equivalent of an AI audiobook, imo. Make your own conclusion from this.
 
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Webnovel doesn't even use their own audio, it just sends stuff to a google service that reads things aloud.
Also @M.G.Driver has his book there too. Hopefully they have permission.
 
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