A Christmas Carol

Booktrack+ blends an immersive musical sound score with the cutting edge of Text To Speech (TTS) algorithms to create a truly unique audiobook listening experience!Yup. Machines are beginning to sound human. But to be honest they’re not quite there yet. However, for the first time, we think it bears recognizing, that they are very close. Acknowledging present shortcomings in computer generated speech, The Christmas Carol: Booktrack+ Edition is an experiment in story telling. We’ve taken this classic, which being first published on December 19th, 1843, has never fallen out of print and has been adapted a multiple amount of times into film, television, stage, opera, and far too many alternate audiobook versions and given it a new spin. Computer generated narration combined with a sound score.Why add music? Because music is an extremely effective way to add meaningful emotional and environmental dimensionalities to the way information is perceived and appreciated - an aspect of which current Text to Speech techniques are lacking in. Music helps fill in some of that missing space. But beyond that music points to a possible way to unlock some of these missing emotive aspects of machine generated narration. There is a musicality in the way humans weave words together.Anyhow. This is an invitation to come listen to the beginning of the future of machine human audiobook collaboration. What better story then The Christmas Carol. A story about the transformation of spirit. Don’t be a miser. Let us know what you think. We’ve only just begun our journey in the computer narration space but we’re setting 2018 as an algorithmic marker with this release. Our goal is to achieve a level of machine narration that is indistinguishable from human. As the algorithms improve we will release updates so you can follow progress and our march forward into a future of storytelling