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Re: RealTalk Speech Synthesis

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Because of this, at this time we will not be releasing our research, model or datasets publicly. Has OpenAI's handling of GPT-2 inadvertently provided political cover for commercial organizations who would love to claim they engage with the ML research community but would actually prefer to contribute nothing other than medium articles?

One could argue that it wasn't "inadvertent" at all, and OpenAI is such an organization.

Re: RealTalk Speech Synthesis

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i look forward to see this applied to audio books. this will bring their price down drastically. even to zero. i may just buy the text version, and have a program to generate voice as it reads the book.

there are tools that do that now, but i find that i can't listen to the current quality of computer generated voices for more than a few minutes.

with an almost human like voice i don't think i'll care if there is the occasional glitch that makes me realize that it is a generated voice as long as it sounds fine otherwise.

Re: RealTalk Speech Synthesis

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Impressive (really), but it raises a more philosophical question (as in practical ethics): do we really want voice-bots to blend in perfectly, or should they better feature distinctive marks (like a rather monotonous personality)? [Edit: This is not so much about DeepFakes, as discussed in the article, but more about a general level of implementation.]

I would argue that while yes, I want to be "in on it" as far as knowing the realness of the speaker, I also want AIs that do sound natural. Even the Google thing that handles phone reservations or whatever: so long as I'm aware I'm listening to an AI, we're good.

If I want a Dan Rather news reader application that parses text and says it to me (and obviously, Dan Rather is okay with it), I see no issue with that. I don't want to be distracted by the artificial tone and attempting to parse it on my end.

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