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How would a lack of choice and the ability to self determine be positive?
You can't pick your ethinicity either, it just exists.
It's also scary, because soon it will be very dificult to trust anything you see in video. What now demands a big CGI budget, will be possible to do with a simple App.
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> Do you ever feel like these applications are re-enforcing physical gender stereotypes? They do. Even people that are not transgender might get stuck trying to reach a goal that is impossible. What I have is "Gender Dysphoria" because it is strongly linked to my gender identity. However, nobody is safe from "Body Dysmorphic Disorder". There has been a increase in people who go see plastic chirurgeons with such filte…
Interesting, I've never realized how much of it was just wanting to blend in with everyone else. I'm not transgender, but I also feel much less anxious when I'm not standing out, so I can definitely relate there. Thank you for explaining.
The last thing you want to happen is people to actually know that you are transgender, much less misgender you. The transitioning body is not the gender's present in your mind's eye, it is the result of having lived through the wrong puberty. Being made aware of the fact that you are transgender often triggers dysphoria.
Ever heard your voice in a recording and thought "Oh, that's not my voice -- it's just wrong. Must be the recording." and then felt a strong dislike towards that recording? Perhaps a bit of pain or cringe. Well, that's what a lot of transgender individuals experience daily when looking at their own bodies, hearing their own voice, seeing their image in the mirror, looking down at your own hands, etc.
I don't usually pay attention to things like this, but I have a younger sister who uses Snapchat. She used this filter and the output was essentially a perfect photo of our brother, but with longer hair. I couldn't help but be impressed.
What about the brother -> sister mapping?
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My company, Modulate, is building "voice skins" for exactly this purpose: customizing your voice in chat for online videogames! It's a really interesting technical challenge. On the one hand, changing your timbre to another human voice is much more complicated than basic pitch shifting, so we ended up using deep neural networks for a kind of simultaneous speech-recognition and speech-synthesis approach (though traini…
> Finally, as this kind of tech improves the potential for misuse becomes an important problem, so we need to build in protections (like watermarking the audio) that can help prevent fraud while not compromising the speed of the algorithm or the quality of the output audio. Legitamate question: (absolutely not rhetorical, I don't know the answer!) What the potential misuse of a gender voice changer? If someone wants…
That said, there _are_ some interesting things to be careful around, even for changing your gender, or age, or other basic variables around your voice. We're mostly worried about what impact this would have for communities built around these kinds of commonalities: for example, is it okay for a child to masquerade as an adult in an adults-only social group? I don't think there's a clear answer to all of those situations - but until we see more use of realistic voice skins in the real world, we're playing it safe and building in these kinds of tools!
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My company, Modulate, is building "voice skins" for exactly this purpose: customizing your voice in chat for online videogames! It's a really interesting technical challenge. On the one hand, changing your timbre to another human voice is much more complicated than basic pitch shifting, so we ended up using deep neural networks for a kind of simultaneous speech-recognition and speech-synthesis approach (though traini…
> Finally, as this kind of tech improves the potential for misuse becomes an important problem, so we need to build in protections (like watermarking the audio) that can help prevent fraud while not compromising the speed of the algorithm or the quality of the output audio. Legitamate question: (absolutely not rhetorical, I don't know the answer!) What the potential misuse of a gender voice changer? If someone wants…
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