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AI Clones Your Voice After Listening for 5 Seconds (2018)

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Re: AI Clones Your Voice After Listening for 5 Seconds (2018)

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Post by Lucadg »

MagnumPIG wrote: post #114
Lucadg wrote: post #100

At 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.

real life interaction is going to be more and more valuable. So, "we won't need to travel again because of videos calls" is not going to happen any time soon, it seems.

And public/private key validation may become invaluable.

Re: AI Clones Your Voice After Listening for 5 Seconds (2018)

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Post by danaris »

Lucadg wrote: post #100

At 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,…

It doesn't have to be about creating audio of specific text with 's voice; it can be much more about creating audio of specific text with a wide variety of believable people's voices.

I could see this, if it becomes commercially viable, potentially being a huge boon to indie game creation, for instance, since hiring a load of voice actors to record the dialogue for an entire game is vastly more expensive than, say, hiring a bunch of different people to record their voices for 5 seconds—or even, if this ever took off, buying a bunch of samples pre-recorded (or networks pre-trained) for the purpose.

Re: AI Clones Your Voice After Listening for 5 Seconds (2018)

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Post by azinman2 »

ada1981 wrote: post #65
AbbasHaiderAli wrote: post #39

Wow, impressive results! Already a few examples in the comments of what bad actors could do this tech. I wanted to share an example of something good. I lost my dad about 6 years ago after a Stage 4 cancer diagnosis and a 3 month rapid diagnosis. I have some, but not a lot of video content of him from over the years. My mom still misses him terribly so for her 60th birthday I tried to splice together an audio message…

When I interviewed Ray Kurzweil we talked about the obvious-in-hindsight insight that his life’s work was essentially trying to build an AI to bring his father back to life.

Except no matter how good it is, it will only reinforce that it’s not real and that he’s gone. Perhaps that’s the therapy he needs to move on?

Note: this is different from listening to recordings from the actual person.

Having loved ones die is one of life’s universal terrible qualities.

Re: AI Clones Your Voice After Listening for 5 Seconds (2018)

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Post by anextomp »

Lucadg wrote: post #100

At 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,…

I'm looking forward to an AI assistant that can use my voice to make phone calls

I'm sure some people with selective mutism that would like to use text to speech with their own voice

> How will we adapt?

Digitally signing audio clips

Re: AI Clones Your Voice After Listening for 5 Seconds (2018)

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Post by Defenestresque »

Lucadg wrote: post #100

At 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,…

People had the exact same concerns when digital image manipulation software became popular, including the "we will never be able to trust an image again" question.

To answer your question, I think the biggest step we took in adapting to the ever-present risk that an image may have been manipulated is acknowledging that it's possible. As soon as people knew that something could be faked, they realized that having a purported photograph wasn't irrefutable proof that it happened and learned to ask for corroboration before making assumptions.

I think we'll learn to deal with this new development too.

Re: AI Clones Your Voice After Listening for 5 Seconds (2018)

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Post by smush »

skykooler wrote: post #112
danShumway wrote: post #93

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Hypothetically, if we were interested in donating some voice samples, where would we look to see what lines were needed?
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