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Re: Show HN: Supertone Shift – AI powered Real-time voice changer

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Except for purely non lucrative entertainment use cases with a very high novelty factor, I am struggling to see productive use cases for all these AI applications that don't involve some form of deception or at best disingenuous marketing.

I think this is huge for new content creators that are not native speakers to get rid of the accent. Also if it enables multiple people to sound the same then you can have a YouTube channel with a larger team but only one voice

Re: Show HN: Supertone Shift – AI powered Real-time voice changer

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post #11

Except for purely non lucrative entertainment use cases with a very high novelty factor, I am struggling to see productive use cases for all these AI applications that don't involve some form of deception or at best disingenuous marketing.

I think this is huge for new content creators that are not native speakers to get rid of the accent. Also if it enables multiple people to sound the same then you can have a YouTube channel with a larger team but only one voice

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...needing an excuse to get access to microphones to solve the problem stated on their own front page ( https://supertone.ai/ ) as We need voice source material to train the AI .

Unless the app is directly lying, it says "For the best performance of Shift we need to listen to your voice for 10 seconds. We do not collect your voice data from this app."

I haven't put a network sniffer or anything on it yet though. Just wanted to take a peak at the UI

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I can see this being interesting for gamers and more whimsical pursuits, but I'm more curious about neural speech synthesis for both normal speech and singing--the first because there is a pretty strong demand for automated narration of training videos, and the second because of my music hobby--other than vocaloids and a few niche DAWs, I haven't found any nice Open Source tooling for the latter (the former I can mos…

From what I found, XTTSv2 is based on the Coqui Public Model License, which explicits disallows commercial commercial usage: "This license allows only non-commercial use of a machine learning model and its outputs."

So, from what I understand, I cannot use it and then upload the training video to Youtube. Or can I?

Re: Show HN: Supertone Shift – AI powered Real-time voice changer

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Very interesting!

I would like some clarity on the Terms of Service clause 4:

> The content created using Supertone Shift remains your property. However, by using our Services, you grant Supertone a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free license to use, reproduce, adapt, and display content solely for the purpose of operating and improving Supertone Shift. This license does not grant Supertone any rights to sell or distribute your content.

Does Supertone Shift need the user content in order to further improve the product during the beta period?

Or does it need the user content in normal operation (for example, running the conversion on remote servers vs local processing)?

I can see some hesitation from people if you're recording everything they say, and keeping that recording for an indefinite period of time.

I can appreciate that there may be a problem enforcing a "Don't use our product for evil" clause, if you can review usage.

The challenge here seems overwhelming.

Re: Show HN: Supertone Shift – AI powered Real-time voice changer

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Except for purely non lucrative entertainment use cases with a very high novelty factor, I am struggling to see productive use cases for all these AI applications that don't involve some form of deception or at best disingenuous marketing.

I can think of a few applications of this technology, although some may fall into the deception category, albeit harmless in my view: - overcoming social anxiety in voice or online calls. It doesn’t take very many bullying incidents during childhood to become convinced you have a horrible or weird voice. I can see this being used as a useful tool to make people feel more comfortable by having a different voice - amat…

I also can't help thinking of the "Melanie speaks" episode of 99% invisible [1].

Of course this only works for your "online persona", but still the idea of impacting how you are perceived by working on your voice... is a thing.

[1] https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/melanie-speaks/

Re: Show HN: Supertone Shift – AI powered Real-time voice changer

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post #11

Except for purely non lucrative entertainment use cases with a very high novelty factor, I am struggling to see productive use cases for all these AI applications that don't involve some form of deception or at best disingenuous marketing.

I think this is huge for new content creators that are not native speakers to get rid of the accent. Also if it enables multiple people to sound the same then you can have a YouTube channel with a larger team but only one voice

I don't believe it modifies the accent. I noticed I could hear his asian accent coming through every character, so it seems to just modify the voice but not the intonation
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