131–140 of 174 posts
Oh jeeze. I had to. Switch it to Bill Gates and pop this in: > I'm going to steal your soul. One injection at a time. Slowly, over the course of the next decade, the entire essence of your being will be demolished until your body is nothing but a vessel for my command.
Great work though!
Current cloud based solutions from AWS/Google Cloud/Azure are pretty expensive.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
yup, I would stay as far as possible from using this wit explicit permission, just putting it out there, the project has created legal risk IMO.
At least in the US, you can’t copyright your voice. Publicity rights is a can of worms depending on the jurisdiction. Tangentially related, if you have your voice print as a security mechanism at a financial institution (Vanguard), you should ask them to turn that off.
The implications for security are huge. If your friend calls you up for a very quick chat from an unknown number and asks you to remind them of your address, are you going to ask for authentication to prove it's really them and not a convincing synthetic voice?
"My name is Bill, the lord of computers. I love computers, and they love me too. I'll give you a computer, maybe one, maybe two. If you are lucky it might not even crash on you. Love your computer, like your daughter or your wife, treat it with kindness, and it will reward you for life! I am bill the god of computers. Bow to me now or I will be sod you."
I've built a lot of celebrity text to speech models and host them online: https://vo.codes It has celebrities like Sir David Attenborough and Arnold Schwarzenegger, a bunch of the presidents, and also some engineers: PG, Sam Altman, Peter Thiel, Mark Zuckerberg I'm not far away from a working "real time" [1] voice conversion (VC) system. This turns a source voice into a target voice. The most difficult part is gettin…
This is great. I've been thinking about doing something similar with cartoon characters to build a Disney-style companion for my son as he gets older. I'm imagining something like an Alexa assistant but with Mickey Mouse's voice.