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Re: China's AI news anchors

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Post by Mathnerd314 »

wenc wrote: post #35
ian0 wrote: post #30

Wow text-to-speech doesn't seem to have gotten very far in the last 20 years? When we were kids we used to use a windows (3.1?) program for prank calls and it didn't sound much worse.. I would have thought by now basic things like word spacing and tones would have improved to the point where you would only realise its artificial occasionally.

Not sure if they are using state-of-the-art TTS. This one [1] sounds a bit more natural. [1] https://neospeech.com/

Still sounds stilted. Try Google's: https://cloud.google.com/text-to-speech/ (https://www.theverge.com/2018/3/27/17167200/google-ai-speech...)

Re: China's AI news anchors

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Post by msla »

i_am_nomad wrote: post #29
browsercoin wrote: post #25

Not at all challenging, considering the average CCTV (what a fitting name for a chinese tv station) anchor's range of emotional expression is limited to a knob. Might as well just produce a deepfake anchor with Xi's ugly ass face instantly traumatizing millions of Chinese children, who knows how many falun gong infants were sacrificed to save the poor sick Chinese elite (they actually eat the fucking placenta for sup…

Please try to not be so polemic and disagreeable in your posts, and instead bring a spirit of respect here. Chinese people are human beings.

> Please try to not be so polemic and disagreeable in your posts, and instead bring a spirit of respect here.

Pointing out the crimes of the PRC is not disrespectful.

Except, perhaps, to the PRC.

> Chinese people are human beings.

Nobody's saying they're not.

Re: China's AI news anchors

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Post by nhauz »

That's actually pretty cool. Reminds me of those youtube videos full of automatically generated videos with TTS. This would be the next step :)

Also, anime girls.

Re: China's AI news anchors

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Post by browsercoin »

msla wrote: post #42
i_am_nomad wrote: post #29

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Please try to not be so polemic and disagreeable in your posts, and instead bring a spirit of respect here. Chinese people are human beings.

> Please try to not be so polemic and disagreeable in your posts, and instead bring a spirit of respect here. Pointing out the crimes of the PRC is not disrespectful. Except, perhaps, to the PRC. > Chinese people are human beings. Nobody's saying they're not.

> Except, perhaps, to the PRC.

or people who has been unwittingly duped/brainwashed into buying that "China will overtake USA anytime now" propaganda.

it's not limited to race, I've definitely seen some white American dude shilling for China...smh

Re: China's AI news anchors

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Post by cauldron »

>Reminder that one chief editor of the People's daily commited suicide days ago, following several similar suicides.

>A stressful job even to read propaganda afterall I guess.

They even created a thing called "People's Search Engine" though it flopped.

Re: China's AI news anchors

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Post by bitL »

lawlessone wrote: post #5
scj wrote: post #4

My first thought was towards Max Headroom. My second thought was on the Max Headroom incident. If it went live, how long before a copy lands in the hands of pranksters?

Thinking on that... someone could use it to declare a revolution, or say claim a disaster has happened.

Once general-purpose GPUs get 100x faster (by 2025?), they'll get classified as weapons and one would need a strictly regulated license to do Deep Learning on them, with computations logged/snapshotted onto some governmental server.

Gamers will be forced to stream from cloud.

Re: China's AI news anchors

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Post by eiaoa »

cauldron wrote: post #44

Reminder that one chief editor of the People's daily commited suicide days ago, following several similar suicides. A stressful job even to read propaganda afterall.

> Reminder that one chief editor of the People's daily commited suicide days ago, following several similar suicides.

> A stressful job even to read propaganda afterall.

Yeah, I've been told these news anchors are expected to not make a single mistake in their speech or presentation during the broadcasts, and that they're timed so precisely that you could set your watch by them.

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