I have to say I'm slightly surprised, I personally think the ElevenLabs voice is more emotive, and I find it much easier listening. Is the general opinion that it is actually inferior?
ElevenLabs powered reading of this post: https://open.substack.com/pub/askwhocastsai/p/on-the-gladstone-report-by-zvi-mowshowitz
An AI narration of this post: https://askwhocastsai.substack.com/p/my-clients-the-liars-by-yassine-meskhout
With such a cast of characters, I've done a full voiced ElevenLabs narration for this post:
https://open.substack.com/pub/askwhocastsai/p/read-the-roon-by-zvi-mowshowitz
I've created an ElevenLabs AI narrated version of this post. I know their is already a voice option on this page, but I personally prefer the ElevenLabs output. https://www.patreon.com/posts/93392366?utm_campaign=postshare_creator
If you are looking for any support on a more naturalistic version of those posts that make it to the podcast feed, I have been experimenting heavily and producing an ElevenLabs AI podcast of Yudkowsky's latest fiction. I have an API pipeline already built, and could assist in producing a test episode or two.
I have taken up the torch, and I am creating a podcast of Planecrash using a version of current-gen voice tech to create a multi-voiced performance. Weekly episodes are coming out here https://shows.acast.com/project-lawful-aka-planecrash
I've produced a multi voiced Elevenlabs reading of this post, for ease of listening and speaker differentiation.
https://open.substack.com/pub/askwhocastsai/p/my-interview-with-cade-metz-on-his