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Gemini 3.8 text-to-speech

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  1. burkaman · · focus · HN ↗
    Seems like voice actors are safe for now. This is technologically incredible, but the results are really not very good, and usually not particularly close to the prompt. In basically all of these examples some core part of the prompt is completely ignored.
    1. avazhi · · focus · HN ↗
      > Seems like voice actors are safe for now. This is technologically incredible, but the results are really not very good,

      Um, what?

      1. burkaman · · focus · HN ↗
        Technologically incredible as in "I cannot believe it's possible for a computer to do this" and not very good as in "these examples are not what was prompted and I can't think of a use case where these would be acceptable".

        Imagine someone showing you that they've trained their dog to hold a paintbrush and paint. There would be no contradiction between "this is incredible" and "these paintings suck".

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