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I'm narrating a 30-minute video about money, and it's clear why I didn't narrate my full book Broken Money myself (and instead got nostr:npub1h8nk2346qezka5cpm8jjh3yl5j88pf4ly2ptu7s6uu55wcfqy0wq36rpev to do it. It's very hard, and my voice is particularly boring when reading.

In the near future, I think AI will be good enough that it can learn someone's voice and then provide top-tier narration. And for example it could be told, "alright that's good, but make it 50% more charismatic. Make it sound like Lyn is at least trying." and it'll be able to do that.

Guy Swann 2y ago

I do not think your voice is boring and I highly suspect this is the very common phenomenon where everyone hears their own voice differently than others do.

For instance, I was doing the podcast for over a year before I didn’t hate listening to myself. I didn’t even review my own episodes before publishing. Now it doesn’t bother me, but I’m 5+ years in now of doing it every day 😆

But that said, it isn’t as easy as it seems from the outside. It’s very often a pain in the ass and takes a huge amount of time.

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Scale Bar 2y ago

Listening to your voice is one thing, but the subtle differences of you speaking while having a live conversation or being interviewed is entirely different than dictating written text and making it sound convincing and engaging. It takes a special skill to bring something written/static to life, which you’ve clearly honed over time and executed well. Lyn’s ability to understand concepts so deeply that she can think on her feet and open the spigot, delivering on the fly verbal responses and arguments is amazing, but an entirely different skill set. Kudos to you both.

Lyn Alden 2y ago

Yeah I generally like how my podcasts go but reading in a charismatic way is not my forte.