Gilbert Godfrey sounds like "Bonzi Buddy" from the old desktop widget days... Those were some crazy times
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#112Oh jeeze. I had to. Switch it to Bill Gates and pop this in:
> I'm going to steal your soul. One injection at a time. Slowly, over the course of the next decade, the entire essence of your being will be demolished until your body is nothing but a vessel for my command.
Re: Show HN: Neural text to speech with dozens of celebrity voices
#113On 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…
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.
Yep, that's what we're doing at https://replicastudios.com - though we have strict ethical guidelines to not clone a person's voice without their permission.
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#114I think you're going to have legal risks with a project like this. At some point a celebrity is going to sue and we'll find out what the law decides.
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#115I've built a lot of celebrity text to speech models and host them online: https://vo.codes It has celebrities like Sir David Attenborough and Arnold Schwarzenegger, a bunch of the presidents, and also some engineers: PG, Sam Altman, Peter Thiel, Mark Zuckerberg I'm not far away from a working "real time" [1] voice conversion (VC) system. This turns a source voice into a target voice. The most difficult part is gettin…
what are the legal implications surrounding this now ?
Re: Show HN: Neural text to speech with dozens of celebrity voices
#116Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
Photoshop has existed for a long time, but people still take photos at face value.
Photos were being doctored long before then, even.
For example, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Censorship_of_images_in_the_So...
Re: Show HN: Neural text to speech with dozens of celebrity voices
#117Earlier quoted context omitted.
Photoshop has existed for a long time, but people still take photos at face value.
Photos were being doctored long before then, even. For example, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Censorship_of_images_in_the_So...
I'm reminded of a comment by someone that studied the old Eugenics movement. Mentioned finding that one of the major books on the subject the author had carefully edited photo's of 'degenerate people' to look even more crude an unintelligent.
Also photographer friend of mine said; a great photographer doesn't need to Photoshop anything to lie to you.
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#118Earlier quoted context omitted.
I've tried Gilbert Gottfried and NDT. I do get a console error about CORS: > Access to fetch at ' https://mumble.stream/speak_spectrogram' from origin ' https://vo.codes' has been blocked by CORS policy: No 'Access-Control-Allow-Origin' header is present on the requested resource. If an opaque response serves your needs, set the request's mode to 'no-cors' to fetch the resource with CORS disabled. Using Chrome stable
Oh man, I thought I had this CORS stuff sorted. Thanks for the help and info! I'm using version 84.0.4147.89 (Official Build) (64-bit) and getting back responses. I got the following response headers: access-control-allow-origin: https://vo.codes content-length: 151689 content-type: application/json date: Mon, 27 Jul 2020 15:55:37 GMT vary: Origin x-backend-hostname: tts-group-1-965d444f5-7kvkm I'll try to dump the c…
Emulating a persons voice is easy. CORS is hard. :)
Re: Show HN: Neural text to speech with dozens of celebrity voices
#119I've built a lot of celebrity text to speech models and host them online: https://vo.codes It has celebrities like Sir David Attenborough and Arnold Schwarzenegger, a bunch of the presidents, and also some engineers: PG, Sam Altman, Peter Thiel, Mark Zuckerberg I'm not far away from a working "real time" [1] voice conversion (VC) system. This turns a source voice into a target voice. The most difficult part is gettin…
what are the legal implications surrounding this now ?
I don't think that there are any. Simply writing a program that outputs sounds that resemble someone's voice can't be illegal, right? You can use it in illegal ways, sure, but I don't think there are any laws concerning software like this.