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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 #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

If nothing else the source material you use would likely be recordings that others made, so you will not own the copyright on the source material and with how copyright works the synthesized recordings might be considered derivative works of the source material. IANAL, TINLA.

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

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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.

I wonder how long until we have an audio file of Paul Ryan saying something horrendous.

Just switch on CNN

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

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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

There was an advert on TV in the UK and Ireland for an insurance company called MoreThan. They had a Morgan Freeman impersonator who ended the ad by saying "I'm Morethan Freeman". I seem to recall a legal kerfuffle but I can't find anything online about it.

One of the ads: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kpPzcAseU8E

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

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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

I wouldn't try it without heavy modification of the voice. Since for example a Morgan Freeman earns money with his voice, you've effectively robbed him of income (even though there's virtually no chance that he'd have participated).

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

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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

The NPR Planet Money podcast did one of their best episodes about this, called Frank Sinatra's Mug: http://www.npr.org/sections/money/2015/12/09/459116467/episo... There's a transcript here: http://www.npr.org/templates/transcript/transcript.php?story...

When you mentioned Frank Sinatra it made me wonder what would this AI make of uploading singing instead of speaking?

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

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While all of these vec2speech type models are impressive, I get the feeling that most of the comments didn't listen to any of the samples. It's still distinctly robotic sounding, probably has quite a bit of garbage output that needs to be filtered manually (as many of these nets often have) and is a far cry from fooling a human.

Depends if you want to fool a person or a computer.

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

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While all of these vec2speech type models are impressive, I get the feeling that most of the comments didn't listen to any of the samples. It's still distinctly robotic sounding, probably has quite a bit of garbage output that needs to be filtered manually (as many of these nets often have) and is a far cry from fooling a human.

Very impressive I velt -- though there were robotic artifacts here and there (well every several seconds), much of it was fairly natural and reasonably lo-fi quality convincing. There was a HN post a few weeks ago from Google of their most TTS algorithm which was the best I've heard I think, quite quite human (whose techniques were published and could be integrated into Lyrebird).

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

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post #11

I was wondering when CG Sir David Attenborough would get here and start narrating my day to day.

Actually, when the sad day comes and he passes away I'd be very comforted to hear his voice on new nature documentaries. I just can't watch them unless he's narrating.

I agree. This leads to an interesting question: can the estate of a deceased person sell or license their voice rights for new future performances? I suspect the law has some catching up to do.

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

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post #68

While all of these vec2speech type models are impressive, I get the feeling that most of the comments didn't listen to any of the samples. It's still distinctly robotic sounding, probably has quite a bit of garbage output that needs to be filtered manually (as many of these nets often have) and is a far cry from fooling a human.

Very impressive I velt -- though there were robotic artifacts here and there (well every several seconds), much of it was fairly natural and reasonably lo-fi quality convincing. There was a HN post a few weeks ago from Google of their most TTS algorithm which was the best I've heard I think, quite quite human (whose techniques were published and could be integrated into Lyrebird).

you got a link anywhere?
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