Bilbo Baggins’ Real Name? Uncovering Middle-earth’s Hidden Names!

[@jerrylev59]

Despite the quirks of pronunciation and speech cadence, the enthusiasm of these AI readers for the subject is impressive, even if it is, well, artificial.

[@MrNerdMan]

Yeah, it's really good isn't it

[@Cycor]

Homie, i am not even against the use of Ai - but please at *least* give it a listen and fix the pronunciation. In the first few seconds there is **Glaring** errors where they just say the letters and not the words. Not good work.

[@MrNerdMan]

It's output by notebook llm. Unfortunately there's not much I can do. It'll get better with time!

[@Cycor]

@MrNerdMan makes perfect sense, I appreciate the response. Google LLM is fun but does have a lot of drawbacks, but you're right it's just going to get better. Sometimes the artifacts/hallucinations are part of the fun but when dealing with fantasy name pronunciation it's bound to get a little crazy - surprised it was having trouble with words like "up" LOL

[@MrNerdMan]

​@@Cycor Right? I'm going to mess around with Chat GPT text to speech to see if that's any better. I do like the podcast though but you're right. I've heard "U" "P" and "S" "SO" a lot. Seems to struggle with two letter words sometimes.

[@Cycor]

@@MrNerdMan I use Google TTS for the voices on my stream, I'm surprised by a few of them and how quality they are. I've been on their free plan for aaaaages, and they give like a $300 credit so even if you're doing bigger projects like this it might be worth checking out. Not a shill just interested in all this too.

[@konfusion17]

This is terrible.