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OpenVoice: Versatile Instant Voice Cloning

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Re: OpenVoice: Versatile Instant Voice Cloning

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

What exactly are you talking about? The paper doesn't mention any watermark at all, as far as I can see/search.

The readme on the linked github reads: “MyShell reserves the ability to detect whether an audio is generated by OpenVoice, no matter whether the watermark is added or not.”

As you say, right at the bottom https://github.com/myshell-ai/OpenVoice

Re: OpenVoice: Versatile Instant Voice Cloning

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GitHub: https://github.com/myshell-ai/OpenVoice Checkpoint: hxxps://myshell-public-repo-hosting.s3.amazonaws.com/checkpoints_1226.zip (Checkpoint link defanged because I’m allergic to direct links to zip files hosted on Amazon. Nor have I reviewed what the file contains.)

Thanks for the link to the repo. It's very useful.

As for the checkpoint, I'm not allergic and I don't do security theater:

https://github.com/myshell-ai/OpenVoice?tab=readme-ov-file#i... links to

https://myshell-public-repo-hosting.s3.amazonaws.com/checkpo...

Re: OpenVoice: Versatile Instant Voice Cloning

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I had to phone my bank, which is one of the bigger players in the UK high street market, a couple of days ago. They're still encouraging me to enroll in their idiotic "my voice is my password" programme. At this stage in the evolution of AI, that feels simply negligent.

Fidelity Investments just did something even worse ~a week ago - It asked me to reply to a few questions, then announced that I'd just been enrolled in it's voice identification program (or whatever they call it). Now I've got Just Another Item on my ToDo list, to get that undone. Gawd, does every company promote it's stupidest people to management?

Clone management's voices and post it to their social media/etc. Super undo it!

Re: OpenVoice: Versatile Instant Voice Cloning

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I had to phone my bank, which is one of the bigger players in the UK high street market, a couple of days ago. They're still encouraging me to enroll in their idiotic "my voice is my password" programme. At this stage in the evolution of AI, that feels simply negligent.

Fidelity Investments just did something even worse ~a week ago - It asked me to reply to a few questions, then announced that I'd just been enrolled in it's voice identification program (or whatever they call it). Now I've got Just Another Item on my ToDo list, to get that undone. Gawd, does every company promote it's stupidest people to management?

They promote their best schmoozers to management.

They have so much money that competence no longer matters and bootlicking will get you much farther.

Re: OpenVoice: Versatile Instant Voice Cloning

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Welcome to the new era of fakes and scams beyond our wildest imagination !

This aera is barely new. Look at how old some of the projects are:

https://github.com/underlines/awesome-ml/blob/master/audio-a...

The thing that changes is the complexity to run it. I was training my wife's voice and my voice for fun and needed 15min of audio and trained on my 3080 for 40 minutes.

Now it's 2 Minutes.

Re: OpenVoice: Versatile Instant Voice Cloning

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> This repository is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License, which prohibits commercial usage. MyShell reserves the ability to detect whether an audio is generated by OpenVoice, no matter whether the watermark is added or not. So it is not 'open' then and you cannot make money out of this?

You can’t. Scammers who don’t care about noncommercial licenses sure can!

Yep, this is one of those "only bad actors" licenses, probably as a cash grab.

It will definitely stop those bad actors from scamming people this time, right? Right?

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