Ask HN: What's SOTA for AI Voice Narration

3 points by JimsonYang 15d ago ↗ HN

I need some character voice acting for an animation I'm making. The response from people when I used Elevenlabs was that it felt flat and characters were inconsistent.

I was previously using the voice reference on seedance 2.0, but obviously that's limited to 15 seconds, and I have 40 lines I have to go through

Finally I just spent $75 on a human voice actor for subpar work that I can't use

Anyways, is there anything better than elevenlabs right now to carry emotional tone or is it still SOTA?

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mmarian 14d ago ↗

I found NotebookLM podcast voices better than ElevenReader's, so maybe check out Google's services? Just tried OpenAI's voice in ChatGPT, sounds more natural than 11labs as well.

JimsonYang 14d ago ↗

Ill have to give both of those a try

[dead] PiersonMarks 14d ago ↗

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update: I just spent more money on seedance and I chop up the lines. Turns out prettys good