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Launch HN: Play.ht (YC W23) – Generate and clone voices from 20 seconds of audio

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Re: Launch HN: Play.ht (YC W23) – Generate and clone voices from 20 seconds of audio

#391
WTF is up with the girl laughing in the background on some of these clips?

I'm not going to get fooled by fake AI... there's a dude answering some of these directly with a chick laughing behind him.

For sure some of these responses are live recordings, they're up all night.

Re: Launch HN: Play.ht (YC W23) – Generate and clone voices from 20 seconds of audio

#392
post #378

Listening to the demos I'm not entirely convinced by this ( https://playground.play.ht/listen/189 was pretty funny). I wonder if this company will end up taking down (and subsequently pricing out most people using this tech for fun) arbitrary voice generation just like its competitors have so far. Going to the demo page and hearing a random snippet of Musk-worship was pretty weird. Out of all audio tracks to place at…

> ( https://playground.play.ht/listen/189 was pretty funny) Warning to others wanting to click on the link: damn that was creepy.

that's pretty fuckin funny. Did you train it to do that?

Re: Launch HN: Play.ht (YC W23) – Generate and clone voices from 20 seconds of audio

#393
post #53

I'm having a hard time coming up with a non-nefarious use case for this.

We have been seeing some of these genuine use cases: youtube creators, audiobooks, elearning videos, podcasts, commercials, dubbing, and gaming.

BS. That could just be done without imitating someone's voice.

Re: Launch HN: Play.ht (YC W23) – Generate and clone voices from 20 seconds of audio

#394
post #31
post #4

How do you assert that the cloned voice has been truly permitted by the voice owner? I've had my voice cloned without my consent by other people using Descript and Eleven Labs. What is your process for verifying consent?

When I tried this service previously, you had to read (out loud) something saying that you were giving consent.

True

Re: Launch HN: Play.ht (YC W23) – Generate and clone voices from 20 seconds of audio

#395

Listening to the demos I'm not entirely convinced by this ( https://playground.play.ht/listen/189 was pretty funny). I wonder if this company will end up taking down (and subsequently pricing out most people using this tech for fun) arbitrary voice generation just like its competitors have so far. Going to the demo page and hearing a random snippet of Musk-worship was pretty weird. Out of all audio tracks to place at…

I see a bright future for play.ht in the "pre-event" audiolog generation market. Somebody get ubisoft on the phone.

Re: Launch HN: Play.ht (YC W23) – Generate and clone voices from 20 seconds of audio

#396
post #25

This is a good reminder that we all need to have a "safe word" that we can use to verify to the important people in our life that the voice they may be hearing on the phone or elsewhere is really us. Get a panicky call from "me" in the middle of the night? If I don't include my safe word, that call isn't from me.

It is frightening that we have gotten to this point already.

Re: Launch HN: Play.ht (YC W23) – Generate and clone voices from 20 seconds of audio

#397
post #25

This is a good reminder that we all need to have a "safe word" that we can use to verify to the important people in our life that the voice they may be hearing on the phone or elsewhere is really us. Get a panicky call from "me" in the middle of the night? If I don't include my safe word, that call isn't from me.

Society definitely needs to adapt to this new norm; we are trying to roll this out as safely as possible, but others are not as careful, and this technology will just become more ubiquitous over time.

Re: Launch HN: Play.ht (YC W23) – Generate and clone voices from 20 seconds of audio

#398
post #372

Where is the pricing for the API ? How is that under custom when Eleven Labs and everything else clearly describe the price. Not showing that is an instant reject for me

The free accounts have 5k words and then you can upgrade to an API-plan from here https://play.ht/app/api-plans

Re: Launch HN: Play.ht (YC W23) – Generate and clone voices from 20 seconds of audio

#399
post #377

Amazing. Super impressive. > The model also captures accents well and is able to speak in all English accents. Even more interesting, it can make non-English speakers speak English while preserving their original accent. Just upload a non-English speaker clip and try it yourself. Just tried it. It was weird and funny at the same time. When are you planning on adding other languages?

Very soon.

Re: Launch HN: Play.ht (YC W23) – Generate and clone voices from 20 seconds of audio

#400
post #227

This is the first startup here where I think the tech should essentially be illegal. It's cool tech, yes I'm impressed at the achievement. Nuclear weapons are impressive too. OTOH this kind of thing is getting easier and easier to do, so what's a realistic way forward?

Honestly I'm starting to wonder this about AI in general. I mean realistically, there's a decent chance will be looking at general AI soon. The best-case scenario endgame of that is creating a benevolent God. It might be time to start asking ourselves if that's what we want.

Pretty sure that's something that ought to have been discussed before any of this ever started, but you know, scientists, could, should. I look forward to the chaos and destruction and all these "brilliant" software developers wringing their hands saying they couldn't possibly have imagined such horrible outcomes from their fun money-making venture that just so happened to undermine the concept of a shared reality.
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