Today I have a story for you to read, listen to, or both. The story was written by Claude and the narration was created using ElevenLabs. Enjoy.
Continue reading “What Happens When Light and Shadows Fight?”
Tag: Audio
A Story From a Reader – ‘Nothing Ever Grew There Again’
Many thanks to Valerie for leaving this story in the comments. It was created with the help of Gemini. I thought I would give voice to it with the help of ElevenLabs. The voice is one from their library and the description is – ‘Michael – Deep, Resonant, Confident – a male British voice for a storyteller with a rough undertone.’ I hope Valerie approves.
I’ve included the audio and Valerie’s original text. I also put the story into ChatGPT’s new image generator for the picture above.
I hope you enjoy.
Nothing Ever Grew There Again – Audio
Nothing ever Grew There Again – Text
The sun was a blister in the sky, cracking the clay earth into a mosaic of despair. Elias knelt by the ruined plot, his fingers scraping at the dust. He remembered the seedlings, bright green promises against the brown, planted with a hope that now felt like a cruel jest. He’d watered, he’d tended, he’d even spoken softly to the soil, but the blight, unseen and absolute, had taken root first. His wife had wept when the last shoot withered, a sound Elias carried like a stone in his chest. Now, only the brittle, pale husks of dead weeds remained, monuments to a vanished dream of bounty. He pushed himself up, wiping the grit from his calloused palms. The air tasted of defeat, dry and metallic. Nothing ever grew there again.
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Writing, Emotion Tags, and a Voice That Sounds Like Me
This post is part of an ongoing habit of trying small, contained experiments rather than grand declarations about what AI can or cannot do. In this case, the experiment was simple: could a short piece of writing be performed by an AI voice in a way that felt deliberate rather than mechanical.
I prompted ChatGPT to write a brief dystopian monologue and asked it to include emotional cues directly in the script. I then copied and pasted the text into ElevenLabs and generated the audio using a cloned version of my own voice. No editing, no post-production, no technical tinkering. Just text, instructions, and a voice.
What interested me wasn’t realism or polish, but interpretation.
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