Aug 22 (edited) • AI Tools
Happy FriYAY! Testing AI Audio this weekend
Hey Creators,
It's FriYay! I've been working hard this week so I'm headed out to be amongst the humans a little later.
I've finished, The Replacement, now just doing a final read and some edits in the typeset version. This one should be ready for publish in September. I'm aiming for the first week which is fast approaching. I decided to test out the audio book feature. So, I chose Chpt 3 to test since it has a steamier scene and really sets the tone for the entire novella.
This is the first of 11 short stories around the same theme of Love & Bots. My goal is to test drive the market to see which storyline resonates more with readers and lovers of AI Companions. Also, I see this one as a future Netflix series very easily so I wanted to compile the stories in preparation for a future option deal...Netflix, Hulu, Amazon, Apple TV, SciFi channel...whichever comes first!
Like I said, The Replacement is the signature story that sets them all up. It's set in the near future and each story builds until we are 100 years into the future in 2125 building colonies on a terraformed moon in the Alpha Centaurie region of the galaxy.
Plus, I wanted to test out the audio book version. I went with a different narrator than I used for the Hidden Crowns one because the other voice is live monitored and I wasn't sure what the restriction line is because these stories are a tad more "steamier" than the Hidden Crowns ones. So, I selected a sultry unmonitored voice that I do think works for this genre. Plus, these stories are set in the near future where Hidden Crowns was set in the present and not AI related at all.
This took me 3 generations to create this one chapter to get all the voices reading their parts just right. So that was approximately 25k credits. This gives me an idea of how many credits the entire book would take to convert to audio since there are 7 chapters and an epilogue. In my subscription tier I get 200k credits a month. So, it may be enough to finish one audio book a month. Hopefully, I won't have to generate the chapters more than 2x. The AI auto detects who is speaking and assign the characters but in the case of Chpt 3, it missed a couple of dialogue assignments and so I had to fix and reassign. Plus, I decided to use a different voice for Cael (Cognitive Artificial Emotional Lifeform) who is the Humanoid AI in this story. Each story has a different Humanoid I'm calling a mandroid character with a different personality based on the premise of the story. I'm finding these stories very interesting...but I am a little biased since I came up with these premises and I am also the writer. lol
At any rate, that's the long backstory. Attached is the audio sample of Chapter 3 if you dare listen. It's 16 mins.
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Happy FriYAY! Testing AI Audio this weekend
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