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Lyrebird – An API to copy the voice of anyone

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Post by tigerBL00D »

paraschopra wrote: post #136

I appreciate the ethics link up there in the menu. Not sure if I noticed it on any other AI startup (or for that matter, any startup). Given how complex the world is becoming due to ever increasing co-dependence with tech, I can see how such pages could become as important as 'pricing' or 'sign up' pages. (The privacy issues with Unroll.me, Uber and a thousand other such services will only accelerate this trend). Goo…

I agree, it is reassuring to see that the team is thinking about ethical implications.

Judging by the samples from the homepage there are audible artifacts in the recordings resulting from synthesis. I doubt these would pass scrutiny if presented as evidence in court. In some ways forging a voice is like forging a signature, truth can be exposed with enough effort.

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Post by michaelbuckbee »

pbhjpbhj wrote: post #126

Last week on BBC Radio 4 I heard of a woman who was losing her voice through disease (MND maybe?), a similar system was being anticipated and she was saving voice samples to seed it with. She had been a singer and strongly identified her self with her voice, she wanted to be able to use a speech synthesis system that had her own voice pattern. Apologies if this was already mentioned, but it seems to be a use others h…

Was this maybe CereProc? That's who helped Roger Ebert post thyroid cancer. He was a great candidate for the service as there were of course hours and hours of high quality audio recordings of his voice to use as a source.

http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/roger-eberts-voice-restored...

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Post by volkk »

fokinsean wrote: post #180
eadz wrote: post #101

Combined with Face2Face[1] live video impersonation, it is truly time to be very careful verifying videos or even live streams. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ohmajJTcpNk

Woah that's kinda scary. What could we do to determine if a video is legitimate or not?

Mainly, practice critical thinking. Don't take anything at face value until it has been reconfirmed from many sources. At least that's what I do.

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Post by calimac »

JustinAiken wrote: post #169
netcraft wrote: post #162

Earlier quoted context omitted.

just wait till _the daily show_ and _last week tonight_ get a hold of this!

..then they'll finally be able to play audio of republicans contradicting themselves! :p

Yes!!! And video of democrats like maxine waters et al. speaking in coherent logical sentences.

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Post by return0 »

LegendaryPatMan wrote: post #91

This is pretty basic at the moment and it's terrifying. Yeah, it has an MS Sam feel to it, but as the tech improves and we know it will, you could use a service like this to put words in someone's mouth. Think about how you could trip up a CEO or a Politician by playing some random clip that they never said. When that gets into the Zeitgeist judgments will be made in the court of public opinion devoid of facts or rea…

There are human impersonators already. I suppose it's not that easy to fake a visible, high-ranking person for long.

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Post by froindt »

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

Can you imagine this for the next generation of cyber bullying? It could get super messy in high schools.

Alice broke up with Bob. Bob grabs the YouTube videos from Alice and makes video and voice profiles. Bob then posts a video of Alice saying how breaking up was her biggest mistake and how she misses because Bob does it all best.

That could end badly really easily.

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Post by dmix »

pinpeliponni wrote: post #174

Funny thing is, this is approximately where CIA was with similar technology in closer to 2000. They did some demos for politicians about how they can given anyone's fake their messages. That stuff is golden for propaganda means, and for confusing stuff like military chains of command. Today the CIA probably has worked out all the robotic artifacts already, and their output is really indistinguishable.

> Funny thing is, this is approximately where CIA was with similar technology in closer to 2000

Source?

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