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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 my pandemic side project, and I'll be happy to answer any questions about it.
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.
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What iconic female voices would you add?
> What iconic female voices would you add? Cate Blanchett, Sarah Silverman, Katey Sagal, Jennifer Tilly, Laura Prepon, Viola Davis, Judi Dench, Whoopi Goldberg, Julie Andrews, Lake Bell, Jane Lynch, Joan Rivers, Martha Stewart, Katharine Hepburn, Sarah Vowell, Shoreh Aghdashloo...
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…
Need Charles Bukowski model.
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I don’t appreciate the condescension. It’s half assed in that I put a rough direction out there for conversation for a huge problem that will inevitably cause social problems. Your reply isn’t in line with HN guidelines and certainly doesn’t make me want to participate in conversation with you about important topics.
I am really sorry. I could have worded it better. I didn't meant to be condescending to you. My reaction was more to the government. Governments have a history of putting up solutions that work in their favor by selective enforcement and securing power to self. Encryption debate is one such example.
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.
It's pretty childish, but it was quite satisfying to hear George Bush confess to being a war criminal too!
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What is the reason for them being almost all men?
My guess would be that there are more interesting and recognizable voices by men than by women. Not everything is a CIS male's conspiracy you know.
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Out of curiosity, are there legal concerns? E.g. training off Schwarzenegger and offering an Arnold transform
It's not settled caselaw so anyone basing a business off this should expect to spend a lot of money defending it in courts I saw once a company that offered to be the sole purveyor of a celebrity's synthesized voice. I haven't been able to find them again, but that seems like a much safer way to monetize this.
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Such a system will always suffer from false positives and false negatives. On a more positive note, when deepfakes become a problem, we will see the emergence of a culture where unsigned authoritative content is not paid any attention.
This is a big issue! Lots of bad things happen, and they are only surfaced because the person in question didn't notice the surreptitious recording. When deep fakes becomes a problem, it will give these people plausible deniability and they can just reject it as "fake news."