A couple of weeks ago, Sir David Attenborough watched me drink a cup of water.
David Attenborough is now narrating my lifeHere's a GPT-4-vision + @elevenlabsio python script so you can star in your own Planet Earth: pic.twitter.com/desTwTM7RS— Charlie Holtz (@charlieholtz) November 15, 2023
Or at least, a clone of him did. I recorded the video in a library on a whim, congested and with a bunch of background noise, and it went viral. It hit the top of Hacker News, Business Insider and Ars Technica wrote about it, and the nearly 4 million people watched an AI David Attenborough describe my blue shirt as part of my “mating display.”
You might be surprised (I am constantly) by all the things you can build now. I’ve experimented with building a posture checker and productivity coach that takes screenshots of my laptop screen and yells (constructive) criticism.
In this post, I’ll explain the concepts behind making your own AI narrator. At the end I’ll link you to some code you can use to make your own.
