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Cool idea but that voice is like sandpaper to my ears.

Maybe a female voice, a bit quieter (the soundscapes are almost completely silent for me) and maybe add some high-room-size, long decay (5-10, maybe even 20 seconds), wide panned (like 100%) and moderately diffused (maybe 10-20%) reverb to the voice with like 30% mix or so, which would add a very airy tone and help the voice blend in a bit. If the TTS engine has a whisper setting (many do), add just a bit. It'll help thicken the reverb.

That, paired with bass-heavy soundscapes, will create a very nice balance between the low registers and the voice's high registers.

Just a thought. :)

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This is great feedback, thanks! Maybe I should open-source the code.

Actually, fuck it:

https://gitlab.com/stavros/deep-dreams

I'll implement your suggestions (or as many as I can), thanks!

No problem! Also if you're into the music production end of it, check out adaptiverb. I use it extensively when I make ambient stuff and it is unparalleled for quality.

Oh huh, that looks very interesting, thanks! I imagine it's a VST plugin, I'll have to check it out next time I'm near a DAW.

Hey, would you by any change be able to generate another background track for me? The one I have is 10' long so it won't be enough if the story is longer, and I don't know how to make these.

I don't have tons of extra time these days for music, unfortunately. I give you permission to rip/download anything from here that you'd like and include it in the project, however: https://soundcloud.com/0-aces

Even better, thank you!

Just found this comment. I'm a bit into generative / algorithmic music; here are two demos I made a year ago: https://fligenstein.bandcamp.com/

One is just piano, the other is keys and drums. On Bandcamp they are about 10' each, but they can be made of arbitrary length, without ever repeating themselves exactly (in principle... in practice it's likely there are exact repeats but they should be few and far between).

If you have an idea of the type of background music you need, I can make other tracks too. I'd be happy to work with you on this.

That'd be great! I guess the best would be something with very smooth changes, like the current background track. I made that one on mynoise.net.

Ok, I'll try to come up with a couple ideas tonight or this weekend.

Here's a first try: https://soundcloud.com/user-120372285/pcbg001

(This example is just one minute but it can be made of any length.)

Maybe the mix a little too much on the high-end, which may conflict with the voice. It should be tested?

Anyway, tell me what you think; I tried to sound a bit like the current background but with a more melodic feel and less industrial noise; but we could go in any direction -- if we know what to try.

I think that's great! Maybe the changes are a bit too rapid, but it's definitely in the right direction. Also my email is in my profile if you want to take this offline!

Ok super. I'll send you an email to start the conversation but I'm going to sleep now as I'm in Europe ;-)

Same here :) Talk to you tomorrow!

Email sent.

https://gitlab.com/stavros/deep-dreams/-/blob/master/episode...

"AAAAAAAh WOOAH Jeez guys, I sure wanted to tell you this AWESOME-SPOOKY story that I had, but I can't read the next word on my sheet because my flashlight broke. ffffffffff! I hate it when it breaks."

How did that end up there? Are the AI overlords fucking with people trying to fall asleep?

Hahah, I have no idea, it really went off the rails there.

There's also a few TTS systems which are pretty natural sounding too. Maybe one of those if they wanted to make a subscription for this, that way they could offset the price of the TTS service

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