A local station of mine (KYWY Pine Bluffs) uses Google Translate (I kid you not) for it's legal IDs. Other than that, I can vouch for the weather channel. The announcer says fairly generic phrases, such as "in our area", "our week ahead", etc, which can then be combined into coherent sentences, and more specific information appears on the screen. First it was Dave Chandler, then the infamous Allen Jackson (who IMO sounds like Jim Cantore), and finally Jim himself.
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Computer (voice) as Host/"Talent"
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I was about to say as I was reading your post, the voice on The Weather Channel delivering information about your local weather forecast is indeed Jim Cantore and they did a video at one point, detailing how he recorded all the various forecast possibilities, temperatures and the like that are strung together to form the forecast based on the data TWC collects. There are also a bunch of videos on Youtube showing interviews done with the voice of the original Siri. She explained she didn't even realize that she'd been hired for the Siri project and didn't know how her voice was being used until friends and relatives started using Siri and called her as they'd recognized her voice. She only knew she'd been called in for several sessions to belt out various sayings and phrases and to do them using different tones and inflections.
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That radio DJ you hear might already be a robot
AI-VOICE/ROBOT DJ (TV):That radio DJ you hear might already be a robot
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Kirk Bayne
Looks like the AI voice thing is gaining momentum. I am acquainted with the publishing field, and audiobooks are considered a big deal. And to make them, an author (or publisher) pays voice talent fairly big bucks. Yet AI could easily replace a lot of them, if not all of them.^^^That radio DJ you hear might already be a robot
AI-VOICE/ROBOT DJ (TV):That radio DJ you hear might already be a robot
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Kirk Bayne
Just like radio stations and networks found significant cost savings once satellite, automation and other technologies allowed them to air programming in such a manner where the majority of their listeners can't tell if there's actually a live DJ in the studio or if it was voice tracked possibly days earlier by someone sitting in their home in a completely different part of the country (and engineers who's only real task was to "push buttons" and maybe route signal could be replaced as well), if those same stations and networks could use computers to do all that VO work, especially if they could potentially set it up so the computerized voice could allow management to update it quickly to voice very recent happenings or sound especially topical with the information provided, that would be a logical next step. You've made a strong point about things like audiobooks as well. Really the only reason to need to hire an actual human voice talent at that point would be if you wanted a particular celebrity or famous person to voice a particular script. If you just needed a "generic" VO, the computer could become the go-to.
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I recently tried an audiobook with AI reading and the number of punctuation errors and names/places was extremely irritating. Irritating enough that I cancelled the service this morning.
Sounds like when I pay my credit card bill. They have every possible combination of words and numbers but a different voice does each part.
Give it another five years or so, Landtuna..... I remember when voices like Alexa were the realm of science fiction. AI has come a long way, and still has a long way to go, obviously.
Some corporations now hire and fire people by AI bot. I probably get at least two to three friend requests a month or so from AI bots on social media. Some of my other social media friends are fooled and think they're real people. AI is constantly being improved. It's a matter of time. The benefit to the reader, when it comes to audiobooks, is that it will lower pricing over time. Because one will no longer need to buy the audio version. The e-reader will make any book an audio book.
But I don't see them working out all the glitches for another few years.
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Kirk Bayne
As my example was from the 60s, I thought that fact would be obvious, but thank you for setting the record straight.
OK, something bugging me since I learned about the electronic media:
How can something be "pre-recorded"? It is either recorded or it is not. You can't "post-record" something so how can you pre-record it?
In the old days the booth announcer would say "this program was recorded earlier for presentation at this time". Someone got lazy.
How can something be "pre-recorded"? It is either recorded or it is not. You can't "post-record" something so how can you pre-record it?
In the old days the booth announcer would say "this program was recorded earlier for presentation at this time". Someone got lazy.
Pre-recorded is another way of saying recorded earlier.
"Recorded earlier" is redundant. "Earlier'' is the only time that you can record something for airplay.
"Recorded earlier" is redundant. "Earlier'' is the only time that you can record something for airplay.
Here's the definition of pre-recorded:
So yes it's redundant but it's also proper usage.
Now there's also the term Recorded Live. For live shows that were broadcast later.
That's hysterical! It's an oxymoron similar to Jumbo Shrimp. 😁
I know what they are trying to say but the phrase itself is illogical.
You become aware of these nuggets when trying to teach an ESL person English.
In Germany and France you might be shot for doing something like this.
I disagree! Who can I sue?
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