Hate to be that guy but I can't participate in this discussion due to javascript being required for the landing page. As an outlier not running javascript, I'm reaping what I sow, but it would be nice to me and others in the same boat if projects make their landing page viewable without the need for javascript.
Show HN: Neural text to speech with dozens of celebrity voices
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Re: Show HN: Neural text to speech with dozens of celebrity voices
#82This is my pandemic side project, and I'll be happy to answer any questions about it.
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#83Re: Show HN: Neural text to speech with dozens of celebrity voices
#84Hate to be that guy but I can't participate in this discussion due to javascript being required for the landing page. As an outlier not running javascript, I'm reaping what I sow, but it would be nice to me and others in the same boat if projects make their landing page viewable without the need for javascript.
Why don't you just turn on JavaScript?
Re: Show HN: Neural text to speech with dozens of celebrity voices
#85That's super cool. I am worried about the potential abuse of this service, are there any existing services that can help to identify audio deep fakes like this one is for making them? Found Resemblyzer: https://github.com/resemble-ai/Resemblyzer
Such a system will always suffer from false positives and false negatives. On a more positive note, when deepfakes become a problem, we will see the emergence of a culture where unsigned authoritative content is not paid any attention.
Re: Show HN: Neural text to speech with dozens of celebrity voices
#86Hate to be that guy but I can't participate in this discussion due to javascript being required for the landing page. As an outlier not running javascript, I'm reaping what I sow, but it would be nice to me and others in the same boat if projects make their landing page viewable without the need for javascript.
There’s a text area and a button to say what you typed. Surely you can enable or use a browser with JavaScript when you choose to?
Re: Show HN: Neural text to speech with dozens of celebrity voices
#87On a more positive side to this technology. I've been wondering about the possibility of using this sort of tech (or the API offerings from Azure or GCP) to provide voice overs in video games. By that I mean for smaller budget Indie development, it would be certainly interesting to either be able to generate voice audio from transcripts in order to add voices to background NPCs and so on (or even the possibility of d…
> On a more positive side to this technology. I'm not sure that making it easier to profit off of the likeness of others is a positive side. If it's legal for indie studios to do, it's legal for 20th Century Fox, Universal, and so forth.
This is purposefully not counting in the effect of being able to fake people and the damage that does to society, but I think that was implied by the previous poster specifying looking for the more positive side of the technology.
Re: Show HN: Neural text to speech with dozens of celebrity voices
#88Earlier quoted context omitted.
There are half a dozen startups in this space that provide the tech. They use embedded style tokens or sliders to change the emotion, pitch, timbre, etc. I don't have links off hand, but they're not too difficult to find. These companies tend to focus on off-the-shelf turnkey solutions, so they'll have a suite of a few voice actors to choose from for different character archetypes.
Out of curiosity, are there legal concerns? E.g. training off Schwarzenegger and offering an Arnold transform
Re: Show HN: Neural text to speech with dozens of celebrity voices
#89Re: Show HN: Neural text to speech with dozens of celebrity voices
#90That's super cool. I am worried about the potential abuse of this service, are there any existing services that can help to identify audio deep fakes like this one is for making them? Found Resemblyzer: https://github.com/resemble-ai/Resemblyzer