I was born in the wrong era. Christ.
You were born in 0 CE?
AI Clones Your Voice After Listening for 5 Seconds (2018)
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#112The malign applications of this technology greatly outweigh the benign. Discuss.
I'm currently working by myself on a game that will likely launch without voice acting (text only) because I don't have the money or skill to find and pay voice actors. If I could act out the dialog myself and then purchase or generate voices other than my own to overlay on top of those performances, the quality and accessibility of my finished product would go up dramatically. That would also open up the door for mo…
Exactly. I was working on an Air Traffic Control mod for Kerbal Bpace Program, but the work has gone on hold due to having to find enough people to record all the lines (to have a decent number of airport voices). Being able to record everything once, and only having to find people willing to let me record five seconds of speech rather than a lengthy recording session, would make this much more feasible.
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#113Now we can have audiobooks read by anyone we like! They can direct us to our destination! They can speak at our funeral, being long dead themselves (as long as there is sufficient training material recorded). The future is awesome.
I legitimately think this could be huge for self-published authors. It takes a skilled professional about forty hours of work to produce an audiobook from a novel-length manuscript. Tacotron could do it in minutes.
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#114At first glance there seems to be more more malicious uses than good ones with voice. Yes, hearing someone dear to me say things he/she never said maybe comforting. Anything else? Maybe some movies with the deceased actor's voice? But what if someone who wants to hurt me sends me files (or phone calls) from the deceased person saying horrible things like: - "I am still alive but left as I was tired of you" - "oh Jan,…
We can barely trust pictures anymore either.
It seems we'll be going back to judging the likelihood of one's actions based on one's reputation, for better or for worse.
There soon won't be such a thing as unreasonable doubt.
Re: AI Clones Your Voice After Listening for 5 Seconds (2018)
#115Now we can have audiobooks read by anyone we like! They can direct us to our destination! They can speak at our funeral, being long dead themselves (as long as there is sufficient training material recorded). The future is awesome.
The emphasis on a lot of these sentences is all wrong; I wouldn't want to listen to an audiobook by this engine. It's still super impressive/terrifying though.
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#116One more scene from Terminator that we can now do for real.
What's wrong with Wolfy?
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#117This is cool. Hopefully soon I'll be able to use this to do automatic voice overs from written texts using my voice for podcasts and videos. Read pages of text without getting tired.
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#118Lyrebird has had similar technology for a few years now. https://www.descript.com/lyrebird-ai
Yes, I remember seeing this a while ago. Nice work by the MILA group in Montreal.
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#119Reading this headline I begin to understand certain people’s worry about having their soul stolen upon being photographed.
Images of us can be sourced from any number of places: social media, government surveillance, private surveillance. Video less so but from the same sources. Audio from phone companies, VoIP services, surveillance, etc. Health data easily from a number of private companies if you use new-age "health" services, or less easily (illegally) from health records.
Maybe we can find solace in the fact that is or will soon be infeasible to avoid, so we needn't try to avoid it.
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#120So....I'm going to paste the abstract here because the headline is incredibly misleading and should be changed. >Abstract: We describe a neural network-based system for text-to-speech (TTS) synthesis that is able to generate speech audio in the voice of many different speakers, including those unseen during training. Our system consists of three independently trained components: (1) a speaker encoder network, trained…
Thanks... Too long of a scroll to find somebody posting the actual science behind the click-bait.