Twisted50 vol III Audiobook… I have run some tests…
26 September 2024 · 1 min read
As you know Sasha has volunteered his story for tests, the first one being the Feedback test from last week. You can read about that HERE.
The tool I used to create this audio is from ElevenLabs which, to my ear, is by far the best one I have heard. I used the voice An-Rita with default settings FYI. The music came from Envato Elements.
A couple of phrases were not landing right, so I rewrote bits to get it to pronounce or ‘perform’ correctly or more appropriately. It’ struggled with ‘cos‘ for instance, and eventually I got it to work by changing it to ‘coz’.
Performance wise, it delivered some lines too abruptly, so I would add a phrase like, ‘she the said softly…’ and I would edit out my prompt later, inserting the new delivery to the edit.
I did an final edit using Adobe premiere, to add music too. I suspect the whole thing took less than an hour end to end. And this was my first one, working out the process and wrinkles. Moving forward, I think I could get around 20 to 30 mins of completed audiobook per hour of my time.
So what do you think? Should we do this? Comments below please…
If you want to try ElevenLabs you can get a free account for testing HERE. It’s an affiliate link so if you do sign up, Twisted will get some additional help toward the costs of running the project.
Chris Jones
www.Twisted50.com
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Chris JonesPassionate about all things film, I have spent my life watching movies, making movies and helping others make their movies too. Most recently I have been directing Splinter Unit on 'Mission: Impossible Dead Reckoning', parts 1 and 2 for Paramount. I also executive-produced 'The Enfield Poltergeist' for Apple TV+. Deeper into my past, my early major projects include action thriller 'The Runner', serial killer thriller 'White Angel' and paranormal horror 'Urban Ghost Story'. I co-created and authored The Guerilla Film Makers Handbook series, published by Bloomsbury. There are now eight books in the series. More recently I have run a series of London-based festivals, kicking off with the London Screenwriters Festival which attracts over 1,000 professional screenwriters from around the globe annually. I also set up and run TEDxEaling, an annual TEDx conference on storytelling and human communication. In 2009, I made the multi-award-winning and Oscar-shortlisted 'Gone Fishing', the whole process being heavily documented on my blog. In 2014 I completed my fourth feature film, the crowd-created 50 Kisses which entered the Guinness Book Of Records for most screenwriters on a feature film. Following this success, I founded Create50 to continue the idea of crowd-created projects. Twisted50, our first book, was published on Halloween 2016 and immediately toppled Stephen King from the top spot on Amazon. Five books have followed in the Twisted50 series and we are working on the sixth now. During the summer of 2016 I trained to become a master Firewalk instructor and now regularly take people across the hot coals for charity. Late 2017 I directed the short film 'Seeing Him' which collected a ton of awards too. Over the following years I continued to make award-winning shorts, such as Meet The Nativity and Never Too Late. In the summer of 2022 I premiered Impact 50, the second feature-length movie from Create50. This time I directed the segment at the start of the film, with Olivia Williams as the President, and written by Joe Eszterhas. In the summer of 2022, I also joined the Mission: Impossible 7 and 8 productions as Splinter Unit director. At Halloween 2023, the Apple TV+ show that I co-executive-produced, 'The Enfield Poltergeist', premiered. I run regular filmmaking workshops for filmmakers both online and in person. Some people ask how I began making films? Like most filmmakers of my generation, it was with a Super 8mm camera, summertime and school friends, usually after watching a behind-the-scenes TV programme on a Hollywood movie like Star Wars. My first film was a zombie horror called Necronomicon, heavily influenced by John Carpenter's The Fog. And I was hooked for life. Contact me at Ealing Film Studios, Ealing Green, London, W5 5EP, UK
