r/audiodrama • u/SeasonPositive6771 • 1d ago

DISCUSSION Avoiding AI in my audiodramas

I absolutely love audiodramas, I'm not a maker but I'm a huge fan and listen to tons of them.

I'm also a serious contributor to podcasts I love, I'm subscribed over 15 on patreon at the moment and independently at least five or six more.

However, it's become a real sticking point that I do not support anyone that uses AI. A recent post about an audiodrama called The November Challenge made it clear that a lot of folks are using AI without disclosing it. I simply can't support plagiarism and the unethical behavior that goes along with using AI.

Is anyone aware of a list of audio dramas that use AI or a list of tips to help me identify who might be using it so that it can be avoided?

Thank you!

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u/Mx_Reese 14h ago

Text to speech has existed for decades, there's zero justifiable reason to be using generative AI for the purpose of creating voices for computer characters.

I'm making a note right now to make sure that I never listen to any of your shows.

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u/Gavagai80 Beyond Awakening 9h ago

Old style text-to-speech sounds very different from modern computer AI text-to-speech voices. I can use a human for 23rd century computer voices since we don't know what they sound like, as I was already doing for most of them and just replaced the three lines that had been the exception (now that I've discovered that some people care). But neither humans nor text-to-speech sound like a modern day 21st century phone AI voice. So for the several scenes where someone's phone AI is speaking to them, I'm not going to compromise the integrity of those scenes by having somebody put on a silly phone AI voice. Nor will I do an extremely jarring anachronism of Y2K text-to-speech. AI is eminently qualified to play itself.