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Weird A.I. Yankovic: a cursed deep dive into the world of voice cloning

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Post by fnordpiglet »

jandrese wrote: post #134
anonylizard wrote: post #130

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Huggingface has a strategic partnership with AWS. 1. AWS is far behind Azure and GCP in AI, so they gotta partner up to gain credibility. 2. Huggingface probably does face insane bills compared to github. But AWS can probably develop some optimizations to save bandwidth costs. There's 100% some sort of generalized differential storage method being developed for AI models.

One doesn't usually opt for AWS when their goal is to reduce transfer costs.

Unless aws makes an agreement to not charge you transfer costs, they often do for various open source and software projects like this.

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Post by ThrowawayTestr »

joenot443 wrote: post #65
simonw wrote: post #2

I did not know about this: "The center of the A.I. cover songs community is a massive 500,000+ member Discord called A.I. Hub, where members trade new tips, tools, techniques, and links to their original and cover songs."

Something I think we're slowly coming to terms with is that the current generation of techies (the ones who can afford to spend hours upon hours tweaking models and sharing results) really prefer Discord over our Web 2.0 forum type communities like this one. Even reddit on, which is lagging in popularity amongst Gen-Z when compared to Discord or TikTok, you can immediately tell upon reading /r/LocalLLMs that a really…

Are we so out of touch? No, it's the children who are wrong.

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Post by tracerbulletx »

dwringer wrote: post #8
mckirk wrote: post #4

My absolute favorite application of this tech so far is The Beach Boys singing 'Hurt'. It's the first time I seriously didn't notice any artifacts, and it just works so well even though it really shouldn't. Enjoy: https://youtu.be/gmNSFqyg_Z8

I don't know what I was expecting but that isn't Hurt, it's Surfin' USA with Hurt's lyrics that sound extremely jittery and grainy. I'm curious though if some AI soon could in fact synthesize the Beach Boys' style with the actual chords and melody from the NIN song, possibly with some of the pathos of Johnny Cash as well.

The name of the channel is "There I Ruined It".. That's the point, the person who created it did it specifically to make you feel like that.

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Post by thulle »

pdntspa wrote: post #25
mecredis wrote: post #3

It's kind of wild that these tools just transfer a copy of these models every time they're spun up (whether it's to a Google Colab notebook or a local machine.) This must mean Hugging Face's bandwidth bill must be crazy, or am I missing something (maybe they have a peering agreement? heavily caching things?)

I really wish I could configure this crap to cache somewhere other than my C: drive Or better yet, how about asking me where I want to store my models?

On linux there's the XDG_CACHE_HOME env variable for pip, but strangely enough there doesn't seem to be an windows equivalent.

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Post by toddmorey »

mecredis wrote: post #3

It's kind of wild that these tools just transfer a copy of these models every time they're spun up (whether it's to a Google Colab notebook or a local machine.) This must mean Hugging Face's bandwidth bill must be crazy, or am I missing something (maybe they have a peering agreement? heavily caching things?)

Is hugging face just a model repository like GitHub is a code repository? Seems you can rent compute both cpu & gpu, but you are right that most models seem to be run elsewhere.

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Post by bugglebeetle »

minimaxir wrote: post #98
deepsun wrote: post #97

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> voice actors are fearing that the ability for generative AI to replicate their voices may cost them work I'm not sure how to feel about that. I'm against the idea that some people "deserve" being paid for being lucky born with an interesting voice. On the other hand, the world always worked like that. And, say, hard-working farmer or doctor were also lucky being born with necessary traits to make for their living,…

Voice acting is more than just talking into a microphone. It's a skill not limited to the quality of voice.

Yes, everyone has a voice. The amount of people who can convincingly act with said voice is remarkably small and requires a good deal of innate ability or training, generally both.

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Post by fomine3 »

anonylizard wrote: post #130
mecredis wrote: post #3

It's kind of wild that these tools just transfer a copy of these models every time they're spun up (whether it's to a Google Colab notebook or a local machine.) This must mean Hugging Face's bandwidth bill must be crazy, or am I missing something (maybe they have a peering agreement? heavily caching things?)

Huggingface has a strategic partnership with AWS. 1. AWS is far behind Azure and GCP in AI, so they gotta partner up to gain credibility. 2. Huggingface probably does face insane bills compared to github. But AWS can probably develop some optimizations to save bandwidth costs. There's 100% some sort of generalized differential storage method being developed for AI models.

AWS egress traffic charge is just outrageous so they can easily offer huge discount without improvement

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Post by totetsu »

trafficante wrote: post #127
HappyDaoDude wrote: post #106

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I have said this will initially be sold as a feature on things like Audiobooks. Pick your book, pick your reader and away it goes. The Diary of Anne Frank read by Gilbert Gottfried.

Not sure if your hypothetical was meant to be a reference to the absolutely hilarious classic “Gilbert Gottfried reads 50 Shades of Gray”, but it has me wondering how much of the inherent comedy comes from “the voice” and how much comes from the idea that the man himself sat down and recorded those lines. https://youtu.be/XkLqAlIETkA (Extremely NSFW without headphones)

8 years earlier https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=9Hs72H-B4QE
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