Combined with Face2Face[1] live video impersonation, it is truly time to be very careful verifying videos or even live streams.
Lyrebird – An API to copy the voice of anyone
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#102Earlier quoted context omitted.
AFAIK not copyright per se in the traditional sense, but there is a "likeness right".
This. I would assume copying a voice pattern is treated no different from copying an appearance. If a 3D model is a very close approximation to a particular person's face and you use it in a game intentionally to benefit from that person's likeness, you can run into legal issues. And of course you really open yourself up for a lawsuit if you then attach the real person's name to it. EDIT: See the NPR Planet Money pod…
Look at Crispin Glover's lawsuit for Back to the Future II as well.
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#103Earlier quoted context omitted.
And Black mirror's "would you like to speak with your dead husband again?"
Forget dead husbands, with this tech, it will be hard to trust anything a politician said. Basically, once they master adding this to video, ANYTHING could be construed against anyone. Want a video of a politician saying "Hitler was right" to cheering masses? Want a video about a president saying it's time to start Nuclear War One? You can make that.
I was thinking the same when I saw an Adobe demo about a similar product. But then I realize that I have listen voice imitators mocking politicians very accurately.
Maybe having this technology at hand will make everyone realise that we can't trust an audio recording.
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#104Impressive. But also enabling the next gen of "Mom, I'm in Mexican jail. Quickly wire me $2,000 so I can get out." scams.
Wouldn't you need tons and tons of training data ? Obama, Clinton and Trump are public personalities, so it's easy to have many hours of recording of their voices. A random relative; not so much.
Do you know the voices of your second or third degree relatives? Telephone scams are quite a well organized crime by now in Germany. If they can extend the target audience from elderly people to the general public by this means, they dont really care about some negative contacts.
http://www.aarp.org/money/scams-fraud/info-2016/how-to-beat-... https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enkeltrick
If they really need a voice sample from a relative they could still impost, with voice or not, as insurance person, HR or police and acquire it by simple means if they have any idea about the social graph of their victim.
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#105Earlier quoted context omitted.
probably this one: https://deepmind.com/blog/wavenet-generative-model-raw-audio...
I missed that one, and it's the best I heard so far. Bit of noise in the background, but the voice itself is very believable. I can imagine in year or two the radio and TV will start using this tech instead of actual speakers. Also, translation and synchronization of any content will be so much cheaper.
Try listening to the NOAA weather radio. They've been using very good TTS for years.
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#106As noted in other comments, all the samples still sound very robotic, so this is probably "just" a method to tune the parameters of an existing voice synthesizer to mimic a real persons voice as much as it allows.
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#107Impressive. But also enabling the next gen of "Mom, I'm in Mexican jail. Quickly wire me $2,000 so I can get out." scams.
And Terminators..
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#108The audio feed sounds like they're real and drunk.. so that's impressive
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#109Coming soon - fake videos of future political candidates saying outrageous things that will derail their campaigns.
Maybe from now on - just learn ASL. Hard to fake a distinctive signing style.
Re: Lyrebird – An API to copy the voice of anyone
#110Earlier quoted context omitted.
And Black mirror's "would you like to speak with your dead husband again?"
Forget dead husbands, with this tech, it will be hard to trust anything a politician said. Basically, once they master adding this to video, ANYTHING could be construed against anyone. Want a video of a politician saying "Hitler was right" to cheering masses? Want a video about a president saying it's time to start Nuclear War One? You can make that.
"Forget dead husbands, with this tech, it will be hard to trust anything a politician said."
Like we can trust anything a politician says/has said today anyway!