I wonder if we'll need a PGP signature for every kind of recording we might make in the future.
AI Clones Your Voice After Listening for 5 Seconds (2018)
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#182I once got a call while I was lecturing some students. It was repeated three times in three minutes - I assumed it was an emergency and stepped out. I was greeted by someone explaining that my father had caused a car accident, and they were calling on his behalf. That someone would need to send over some money for repairs or they’d call the police. Sure. They added that their cousin, the driver, is a parolee now hold…
How do you even prepare for something like that... Do we need to assign identifying keywords to each other when we leave home so we know we are really ourselves? Like a vocal pgp?
Re: AI Clones Your Voice After Listening for 5 Seconds (2018)
#183I once got a call while I was lecturing some students. It was repeated three times in three minutes - I assumed it was an emergency and stepped out. I was greeted by someone explaining that my father had caused a car accident, and they were calling on his behalf. That someone would need to send over some money for repairs or they’d call the police. Sure. They added that their cousin, the driver, is a parolee now hold…
How do you even prepare for something like that... Do we need to assign identifying keywords to each other when we leave home so we know we are really ourselves? Like a vocal pgp?
I told my wife that if I ever mention while on a phone call, she should know that I am in trouble an unable to speak freely.
Sound like we'll all need more things like this eventually :(
Re: AI Clones Your Voice After Listening for 5 Seconds (2018)
#184The malign applications of this technology greatly outweigh the benign. Discuss.
Are you asking about cordite or gunpowder in genneral?
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#185Earlier quoted context omitted.
I'm imagining Siri with the voice of your partner.
Yeah, you probably don't want to mixing up some habits of how you talk to a digital assistant and the person you love.
My partner and I frequently ask each other things, to which the response is "I bet you could google that." Seems fitting :)
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#186One thing is, voice over phone is so compressed that it actually took a long while for this kind of voice cloning (and associated frauds) are all over the place.
We are going to need 2FA over voice communications :)
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#187Now 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.
I don't see that coming soon. The voice is one thing, but the performance goes far, far beyond that. Without understanding the text, you can't get good prosody out of a single sentence, much less developing a character for a whole performance.
You'd have to "direct" this on a word-by-word basis: "Put the emphasis here. Speed up 10% here. Decrease vocal intensity 25%". You'd end up producing a whole "score", and it would take at least as long as the human actor puts into it.
Having done that, it would be amusing to switch it from voice to voice, as a party trick. But the result would still be much poorer than you'd get out of an actor. Really solving the work of an actor is strong-AI-complete.
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#188Wow, 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…
Would be interesting to have a community where people looking to be comforted by their loved one's voice would post whatever snippet of recording they have, then others would listen and see if they know someone who has a similar voice and have them record a message.
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#189Earlier quoted context omitted.
How do you even prepare for something like that... Do we need to assign identifying keywords to each other when we leave home so we know we are really ourselves? Like a vocal pgp?
I told my wife that if I ever mention while on a phone call, she should know that I am in trouble an unable to speak freely. Sound like we'll all need more things like this eventually :(
It would make sense to have another word that indicates it is genuinely you and you are genuinely speaking freely.
Re: AI Clones Your Voice After Listening for 5 Seconds (2018)
#190I once got a call while I was lecturing some students. It was repeated three times in three minutes - I assumed it was an emergency and stepped out. I was greeted by someone explaining that my father had caused a car accident, and they were calling on his behalf. That someone would need to send over some money for repairs or they’d call the police. Sure. They added that their cousin, the driver, is a parolee now hold…
"They were not delighted to hear that." - I used to do that, be a smartass. Then I realized at worst they get more info, at best, you are training them and wasting your time.
Then there is that whole thing where they are getting your voice.