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

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

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Post by kthartic »

camillomiller wrote: post #3

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.

This is huge for indie game developers! They can voice every line of dialogue for every character themselves (or with just 1 professional voice actor).

Text-to-speech AI voice generators exist, but you don't have fine control over the emotion/expressiveness/intonation of the lines like you do with this approach.

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

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Post by kunley »

kunley wrote: post #9

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Funny to see myself being downvoted for a harmless call for a reason, so, few more comments:

The fact someone did something and put a substantial effort into it is not a reason good enough to justify said effort (other than the benefits of learrning) and the product that was created. The world is full of things which actually made it worse place.

Another comment is actually a meta-comment and might be shocking to some people here:

downvoting is not a good method of making someone stop saying statements perceived by some as unconfortable. In fact, there is nothing wrong with earning points first and then burning them with saying comments that are feared by certain individuals to the level that they "must" be downvoted...

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

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Post by Springtime »

darkoob12 wrote: post #20
gardenhedge wrote: post #18

This is awesome. Very futuristic

more dystopian. yet another "contribution" of AI for destroying the society via misinformation.

Speaking generally, there's an undermarketed positive privacy aspect to such voice changers, in helping with both protecting a user's identity against data scraping and doxxing. Additionally, like one other comment touched on, some people have strong accents that make communication in videos challenging (and can be a turn off for audiences and prejudice initial impressions).

Though by using an online service approach it means providing one's real voice to a service that may be using it for further training. Users have to make the call whether they feel they're good stewards.

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Post by michaelmior »

This seems really cool and I can see some great use cases. But the marketing is very odd to me. It says it will let me express myself in a voice that is truly my own…but I can already do that with my natural voice. That seems more likely to be unique than what I would get by adjusting it in software.
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