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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 :(
how do you pronounce the symbols? i mean, 'redacted' is already a pretty strange thing to say by itself.
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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 :(
I 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?
You don't because it statistically never happens. Just like you don't prepare for a plane crash or a lightning bolt striking you.
“When you see something that is technically sweet, you go ahead and do it and you argue about what to do about it only after you have had your technical success.” —Oppenheimer
The malign applications of this technology greatly outweigh the benign. Discuss.
Yes, I think there are almost no legitimate uses for the Farnsworth Device. https://theinfosphere.org/A_Device_That_Makes_Anyone_Sound_L... My personal hell: My mother has dementia and a land line telephone. Scammers call all the time. All day long. (Although the last few days have been pretty good, I assume somebody somewhere is doing their jobs. The scammers will adapt.) One thing they do is spoof their number to h…
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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 wo…
Even better if its linked to the voice generation system in real time, then you can save/redo sentences etc. as you go along.
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Only ones that care about the appearance of propriety though, presumably most never had to try to produce convincing fakes when their word was already law?
>Only ones that care about the appearance of propriety though Such as the United States?
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/perspectives-on-poli...
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Ubik? Though that is not about artificial personality constructs, it's about communicating with loved ones in half-dead states.
This idea crops up in a few of his novels and stories, but I think it’s most fleshed-out in Ubik, yeah.
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Yeah, maybe it's just having a more sensitive ear to the Scottish accent but that to me was the furthest from the reference by far.
I heard that too; being a Brit (and working in languages) probably helps. It did pick it up occasionally though, which gives hope that increased sampling and training could fix the slight miss there. It was that and the Swedish-accented English ("Sentence in Different Voices" section, middle recording) made it struggle. No traces of the Scandi-lilt were left in the synth version. Final note would be the French speake…
However, I'm not convinced at all by these voice transfers across language. I can imagine the second Chinese one being the same speaker in both languages, but not the three others.