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

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Post by Aeglen »

kunley wrote: post #27
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 som…

The reason is fun, and no justification is needed. Maybe you've spent too long looking at the world in a purely progress-driven way. EDIT: I've been there before, but imo the point of progress is to have fun in the end anyway

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Post by jsjohnst »

kunley wrote: post #27
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 som…

> Funny to see myself being downvoted for a harmless call for a reason

You made a critical snarky dismissal comment, what did you expect?

Might I suggest reviewing: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Here’s a couple to specifically call out:

1. Please don't post shallow dismissals, especially of other people's work. A good critical comment teaches us something.

2. Please don't comment about the voting on comments. It never does any good, and it makes boring reading.

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

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Post by themoonisachees »

michaelmior wrote: post #29

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.

I guess the wording is awkward, but as a trans person, I still resonate with it. I'm acutely aware it's not going to be "my voice", but neither is the one I have right now.

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

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Post by sdfgtr »

michaelmior wrote: post #29

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.

That particular line is definitely directed towards people with gender identity issues.

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

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Post by dannyw »

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.

As someone who makes indie games as a passion and creative outlet, tools like these drastically expand my creative possibilities.

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

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Post by qntmfred »

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.

All technology can be used for good and evil

If humanity can figure out how to make machines think, may we should also figure out how to stop doing evil to each other

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

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Post by margorczynski »

edwcross wrote: post #15
rcarmo wrote: post #10

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?

I guess if it is demonetized it should be ok? Or maybe not if your other content or activity is commercial, as even if the video in itself doesn't make money it would indirectly promote your other commercial activity.

Interesting legal problem.

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