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This is needed for processing an indie game's voice recordings, where the voice actors weren't native speakers and had some accent.
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This is terrifying. With this and z-image-turbo, we've crossed a chasm. And a very deep one. We are currently protected by screens, we can, and should assume everything behind a screen is fake unless rigorously (and systematically, i.e. cryptographically) proven otherwise. We're sleepwalking into this, not enough people know about it.
We're going to be okay. There are far more good and interesting use cases for this technology. Games will let users clone their voices and create virtual avatars and heroes. People will have access to creative tools that let them make movies and shows with their likeness. People that couldn't sing will make music. Nothing was more scary than the invention of the nuclear weapon. And we're all still here. Life will go…
I simply think people don't really know that the new world requires a new set of rules of engagement for anything that exists behind a screen (for now).
Interesting model, I've managed to get the 0.6B param model running on my old 1080 and I can generated 200 character chunks safely without going OOM, so I thought that making an audiobook of the Tao Te Ching would be a good test. Unfortunately each snippet varies drastically in quality: sometimes the speaker is clear and coherent, but other times it bursts out laughing or moaning. In a way it feels a bit like magical…
Have you tried specifying the emotion? There's an option to do so and if it's left empty it wouldn't surprise me if it defaulted to rng instead of bland.
> Read this in a calm, clear, and wise audiobook tone.
> Do not rush. Allow the meaning to sink in.
But maybe I should experiment with something more detailed. Do you have any suggestions?
it isn't often that tehcnology gives me chills, but this did it. I've used "AI" TTS tools since 2018 or so, and i thought the stuff from two years ago was about the best we were going to get. I don't know the size of these, i scrolled to the samples. I am going to get the models set up somewhere and test them out. Now, maybe the results were cherrypicked. i know everyone else who has released one of these cherrypicks…
I wonder if it was trained on anime dubs cause all of the examples I listened to sounded very similar to a miyazaki style dub.
besides, they know what side their bread is buttered on. I feel like this is almost not the real announcement; or, the engineers that wrote this up and did the demos just ran it that way. The normal speech voices are fine (lower than the anime ones on the page.) i agree that the first few are very infantile. I'll change that word if i can think of a better one.
it isn't often that tehcnology gives me chills, but this did it. I've used "AI" TTS tools since 2018 or so, and i thought the stuff from two years ago was about the best we were going to get. I don't know the size of these, i scrolled to the samples. I am going to get the models set up somewhere and test them out. Now, maybe the results were cherrypicked. i know everyone else who has released one of these cherrypicks…
Indeed, I have a future project/goal of "restoring" Have Gun - Will Travel radio episodes to listenable quality using tech like this. There are so many lines where sound effects and tape rot and other "bad recording" things make it very difficult to understand what was sad. Will be amazing, but as with all tech the potential for abuse is very real
Observe, original: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YiRcOVDAryM
my edit (took about an hour, if memory serves, to set up. forgot render time...): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xazubVJ0jz4
Audio.Restoration.DeNoise.DeNoiseLF.2.8.3_WiN.OSX is a more recent version i think
p.s. are you a "dude named Ben"?
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> People that couldn't sing will make music. I was with you, until But, yeah. Life will go on.
There are plenty of electronic artists who can't sing. Right now they have to hire someone else to do the singing for them, but I'd wager a lot of them would like to own their music end-to-end. I would. I'm a filmmaker. I've done it photons-on-glass production for fifteen years. Meisner trained, have performed every role from cast to crew. I'm elated that these tools are going to enable me to do more with a smaller b…
It's not so much of an issue with art for art's sake aided by AI. It's an issue with artistic work becoming unviable work.
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Care to explain how the volume of AI research papers authored by Chinese researchers[1] has exceeded US-published ones? Time-traveling plagiarism perhaps, since you believe the US is destined to lead always. 1. Chinese researcher in China , to be more specific.
Volume is easy: they have far more people, it is quality that counts.
1. e.g. select any DeepSeek release, and read the accompanying paper
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Volume is easy: they have far more people, it is quality that counts.
Perhaps you should pay attention to where the puck is going to be, rather than where it is currently. Lots of original ideas are coming out of Chinese AI research[1], denying this betrays some level of cope. 1. e.g. select any DeepSeek release, and read the accompanying paper
Kind of a noob, how would I implement this locally? How do I pass it audio to process. I'm assuming its in the API spec?
There are some samples. If you have GPU you might want to fork and improve this, but otherwise slow, but usable on CPU as well.