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Meta & Google Compete In AI-Powered Text-To-Audio Tools
META has launched NOTEBOOKLLAMA, a project leveraging its open-source LLAMA model to generate podcast-style audio files from written text. The initiative, highlighted on META’s GITHUB, is still in development and aims to provide a customizable alternative to existing tools. GITHUB is a developer platform that allows developers to create, store, manage and share their code.
META said, “Another approach of writing the podcast would be having two agents debate the topic of interest and write the podcast outline. Right now we use a single model to write the podcast outline.” It also acknowledged the limitations of current text-to-speech technology, noting, “The text-to-speech model is the limitation of how natural this will sound.”
GOOGLE has also advanced its AI-powered NOTEBOOKLM, which recently moved beyond the experimental stage. The tool allows users to organize and summarize notes into concise outputs, offering potential for creative applications like podcast-like summaries.
AMPLIFI MEDIA CEO STEVE GOLDSTEIN commented, “While the AI capability is scary and impressive, it likely will never capture the rich sound and rhythm of human voices riffing, trash-talking, debating, and connecting with listeners. Even at its best, AI content often feels just a bit off.”
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