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Definitely got some blade runner vibes from this story. I love Jude Watson stories, they are fantastic. Very few bounty hunters could best a Jedi, let alone a master and a padawan simultaneously.
These are so fun. Especially when I’m unwell (as I am today) 🤧 With all the incredible AI voice enhancements that have happened in the past few months, have you considered using an AI sampled voice of someone to make it sound *almost* lifelike in the reading?
Thanks for the reply! (long post to follow!) There are basically 3 levels of TTS at the moment. The first level is rather poor quality (in our opinion) and is not very pleasant to listen to. The second level is what we are currently using, which is good enough to be able to actually enjoy the story. The third level represents the newest innovations that sound almost completely realistic. At the moment, the pricing of this third level is too high to be able to produce multiple books on a regular basis like we are doing. We hope that as more competition enters the market the prices will drop and we will eventually be able to use this third level. You also mentioned 'sampled voices'. It is rather likely that as this technology becomes more commonly known and used, celebrities (or their estates) will begin to crack down on the use of their voices. That being the case, it would be safer to simply use a high quality generic voice that is not sampled from a real person. Anyway, thanks for the question and we hope you feel better soon! 🙂
If you enjoy the audiobooks we create, please consider supporting the expense of our projects through our Patreon page:
www.patreon.com/YJKaudiobooks
Those who do so have access to exclusive book series, can download the MP3 files for all books we release, and also have early access to our normal UA-cam releases.
And check out our Planned Release Schedule here:
tinyurl.com/YJKschedule
Thank you for listening, and may the Force be with you, always!
This was the first star wars book I ever read when I was little! ❤
These are such great recordings
Definitely got some blade runner vibes from this story.
I love Jude Watson stories, they are fantastic.
Very few bounty hunters could best a Jedi, let alone a master and a padawan simultaneously.
These are so fun. Especially when I’m unwell (as I am today) 🤧
With all the incredible AI voice enhancements that have happened in the past few months, have you considered using an AI sampled voice of someone to make it sound *almost* lifelike in the reading?
Thanks for the reply! (long post to follow!)
There are basically 3 levels of TTS at the moment. The first level is rather poor quality (in our opinion) and is not very pleasant to listen to. The second level is what we are currently using, which is good enough to be able to actually enjoy the story. The third level represents the newest innovations that sound almost completely realistic.
At the moment, the pricing of this third level is too high to be able to produce multiple books on a regular basis like we are doing. We hope that as more competition enters the market the prices will drop and we will eventually be able to use this third level.
You also mentioned 'sampled voices'. It is rather likely that as this technology becomes more commonly known and used, celebrities (or their estates) will begin to crack down on the use of their voices. That being the case, it would be safer to simply use a high quality generic voice that is not sampled from a real person.
Anyway, thanks for the question and we hope you feel better soon! 🙂
The bounty hunter reminds me of the assassin curare from batman beyond
Any plans on adding the books that finish the jedi apprentice series? Left me on quite a cliffhanger here 😅
Check out our planned release schedule in the video description 🙂