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Lyrebird – An API to copy the voice of anyone

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Re: Lyrebird – An API to copy the voice of anyone

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Post by brango »

halflings wrote: post #5
_mhr_ wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Imagine when entire videos can be synthesized.

Already done: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ohmajJTcpNk

Wow that's amazing. Combine the two and soon Hollywood stars will be redundant. Faceless session actors could just manipulate models of real people who've signed release forms with the vocal performed by similarly faceless vocal artists, or maybe even AI generated voices. Actors would lose their uniqueness and so end up being paid a pittance instead of being able to command the vast sums they can today. Another set of jobs soon to be made redundant by the rise of technology.

Re: Lyrebird – An API to copy the voice of anyone

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Post by shi »

yladiz wrote: post #6

This is pretty cool (although, I have no idea what other technologies exist for this kind of thing), but it's definitely not convincing enough to a human listener. This sounds like it might be convincing enough for some programs like "Hey, Siri" but it's not gonna convince your mom. You can listen to the samples on the page linked here and you can immediately tell that Obama and Trump don't sound quite human.

It might become more convincing if audio engineers would edit the results to hide artifacts and make it sound more natural.

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Post by PetitPrince »

eps wrote: post #4

Impressive. But also enabling the next gen of "Mom, I'm in Mexican jail. Quickly wire me $2,000 so I can get out." scams.

Wouldn't you need tons and tons of training data ? Obama, Clinton and Trump are public personalities, so it's easy to have many hours of recording of their voices.

A random relative; not so much.

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Post by mverwijs »

PetitPrince wrote: post #25
eps wrote: post #4

Impressive. But also enabling the next gen of "Mom, I'm in Mexican jail. Quickly wire me $2,000 so I can get out." scams.

Wouldn't you need tons and tons of training data ? Obama, Clinton and Trump are public personalities, so it's easy to have many hours of recording of their voices. A random relative; not so much.

They claim to only need 1 minute of recording. In this age of all the kids sharing everything all the time that shouldn't be too hard to acquire.

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Post by jasonlfunk »

PetitPrince wrote: post #25
eps wrote: post #4

Impressive. But also enabling the next gen of "Mom, I'm in Mexican jail. Quickly wire me $2,000 so I can get out." scams.

Wouldn't you need tons and tons of training data ? Obama, Clinton and Trump are public personalities, so it's easy to have many hours of recording of their voices. A random relative; not so much.

It claims that it only needs a minute of audio.

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Post by praptak »

amarant wrote: post #19

It's there any copyright protections for a person's voice? If not, David Attenborough and Morgan Freeman will be lead voice actors in my next game project

It's personality rights. You cannot copyright a naturally existing thing like a face or a voice.

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Post by nannal »

eps wrote: post #4

Impressive. But also enabling the next gen of "Mom, I'm in Mexican jail. Quickly wire me $2,000 so I can get out." scams.

If this is anything like adobe's system then you need a fairly extensive library of the target speaking naturally (~20 hours), so to pull off a scam like that you'll want to try and get into alexa, siri, cortana or Google's library and find a heavy user.
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