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That little stinger at the end was not as surprising as they thought it was :P It's very cool tech, but it's far from transparent. It has a very obvious "autotune" like sound to it that jumps right out. when they edited that one word it was obvious it had been edited. Again, super cool tech, just not going to replace voice actors or anything.
I agree with you that v1 isn't a suitable replacement... right now. But what v2? v3?
That little stinger at the end was not as surprising as they thought it was :P It's very cool tech, but it's far from transparent. It has a very obvious "autotune" like sound to it that jumps right out. when they edited that one word it was obvious it had been edited. Again, super cool tech, just not going to replace voice actors or anything.
> It has a very obvious "autotune" To me it has a very obvious "Hindi is my native language" accent. I mean after literally the first sentence: "The research team at Meta is excited to share our work..." . Ouch. The "our work": just ouch. I was wondering why it wasn't a native english speaker presenting the video when the video is precisely about generating speech. The first seven seconds are particularly bad. Don't…
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Yes, but they're not going to pass on costs from not using a voice actor. They're just going to charge what they normally would have, and not worry about having to give so and so a cut.
Sure, and then we'll get more audiobook options, as it becomes economically viable to make more niche stuff into audiobooks.
Unless you're talking about illegal niche, in which fair but I highly doubt stores are going to accept those. All generation helps with is content that will be free.
So are they releasing it or not? It's a nice PR statement but "we are not making the Voicebox model or code publicly available at this time". Phantom release?
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> There are many exciting use cases for generative speech models, but because of the risks of misuse, we are not making the Voicebox model or code publicly available at this time. While we believe it is important to be open with the AI community and to share our research to advance the state of the art in AI, it’s also necessary to strike the right balance between openness with responsibility. Yeah... I mean there de…
They don't really care about misuse. They just don't want to say openly that they like to keep their shiny new tech and make money with it. No idea why, most people wouldn't bat an eye if you stated from the get go: We built it, we'll use it.
That little stinger at the end was not as surprising as they thought it was :P It's very cool tech, but it's far from transparent. It has a very obvious "autotune" like sound to it that jumps right out. when they edited that one word it was obvious it had been edited. Again, super cool tech, just not going to replace voice actors or anything.
> It has a very obvious "autotune" To me it has a very obvious "Hindi is my native language" accent. I mean after literally the first sentence: "The research team at Meta is excited to share our work..." . Ouch. The "our work": just ouch. I was wondering why it wasn't a native english speaker presenting the video when the video is precisely about generating speech. The first seven seconds are particularly bad. Don't…
I am mostly excited for cheaper audiobooks with consistent voices for different characters.
I think that the "star trek" use case of a live translation is super exciting. I think that this also will force people to have pass phrases that they use to authenticate phone calls with. I normally downplay when people bring up everyone signing everything with a public/private key (impractical for normal users) but clearly there will be a need for authentication protocols as AI proliferates
Coming to an android and iphone near you voice authentication. Audio streams have inaudible data produced by encrypting a mutually known but changeable token like the current time with your private key embedded in the stream for example in frequencies you can't hear. Your phone app queries the service with the time of call and the data received and if they are also a subscriber it is able to discern their identity wi…
I am mostly excited for cheaper audiobooks with consistent voices for different characters.
I'm excited about them making it faster to produce. I finished the most recently published audiobook in a series this weekend. The author posts unpublished chapters to a site called Royal Road. I listen to books while running and driving, so it's a non-starter to visually read them. It would be nice to have that pipeline accelerated. Now, I just want to talk about my little weekend project... I spent a couple of hour…
I don’t want to wait for the publisher to decide they want to do an audiobook.
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For me its more like I wake up and check if humans have been replaced yet. Oh good, it's another day that I don't have to share one time pads with my mother to ensure that I'm talking to her and not a simulant performing fraud on a massive scale.
Cryptographic proof of personhood is going to be a thing, is it not? Outside of BigTech, Signal is as poised as WorldCoin to be just that.