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This Voice Doesn't Exist – Generative Voice AI

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Re: This Voice Doesn't Exist – Generative Voice AI

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Post by ThePyCoder »

wand3r wrote: post #73
dj_mc_merlin wrote: post #66

The examples are insanely good. Insanely good. I can barely believe we really live in a world where this is possible. I don't have anything constructive to add.. just wow.

I work in TTS and i just dont believe this. If these really are random text and not trained on literally the copy they are reading, with no correction I would be surprised. Also, our competitors have good voices but they also take ages to produce. Maybe these really are legit but take like 1 minute to produce or something. So while this is impressive, i doubt that in practice this would be this high quality and could…

I want to agree, but I searched on their website and found their narration service with 2 full book examples. I listened to the first one for a while and it's the first time an Ai narrator was good enough to keep me listening: https://www.audiostory.ai/2065785/11707800-alice-s-adventure...

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Post by cheeseface »

coverband wrote: post #24

This is cooler than ChatGPT and image generation as far as I'm concerned. If they're able to bring out the emotional connectivity and purposefulness of the human voice, it will be revolutionary...

There are so many uses cases for this, even with the current quality. Many game developers dream of having something like this.

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Post by 93po »

logicallee wrote: post #82

Interestingly, some of the robot styles take a very obvious and dramatic fake breath. I say "fake" since a robot doesn't need to breathe and it's not exactly considered a phoneme. The fake breaths don't really make the robot sound more convincing. When you listen to the first example labelled "Narrative" you can tell where a human speaker would have inhaled (which is something the AI could have picked up on from copi…

I noticed a breath in the demo audio in the linked article and while it stood out, I was impressed by it rather than thinking it felt forced. I'm sure if I listened to enough AI voice it would stand out more and feel forced.

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Post by 8note »

vouaobrasil wrote: post #70
didericis wrote: post #56

I can't tell if I'm starting to get that old person "new things are scary" instinct or if my gut level of fear about the implications of these things is warranted. As impressive as a lot of these models are, I can't help but feel like they're going to end up making an incredible amount of sterile soulless content that makes everyone's lives worse . We're already drowning in ad dominated cynical soulless computer gene…

I agree with this completely. Technology has always made us trade quality for low-quality quantity in exchange for convenience. People now interact more through technology which removes a lot of body language and other enriching experiences. The most dangerous aspect of this is that each step seems relatively harmless: right now, ChatGPT and DALL-E are amusements, but each small step is building a monstrous and as yo…

There's no lack of revolutionary tech that has made life overall better with higher quality.

Even like, a bic light is so much better quality than a flint and steel or fire sticks.

Smart phones are fantastic quality computers that enable cool stuff like meeting up with friends without first having to leave a note at their house some amount of time beforehand

Dishwashers and laundry machines and modern quality clothing let you avoid spending half your waking hours cleaning stuff, keeping us healthier, and enabling feminism

Electricity lets us stay awake at night without smoke inhalation from candles and fireplaces, with less likelihood of burning the house down, and advanced tech in housing standards make sure that when the building does catch fire, you'll be able to get out safely

Advancements in technology are mostly quite good, and improve both quality and convenience

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#105

Post by EarlKing »

yreg wrote: post #97
pronlover723 wrote: post #84

What are the odds of this kind of thing being open source so I can use it at home. So far, most of the "good" text-to-speech systems are all commercial services https://aws.amazon.com/polly/ https://cloud.google.com/text-to-speech https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/products/cognitive-service... And now one is also a service. I tried using tortoise-tts on my M1. Generating a 7 minute speech took 3 days and, while bette…

Any time I see AI model news on hn nowadays, my first question is whether I can run it locally, and if not, what are the alternatives that I can run locally.

> what are the alternatives that I can run locally

...you will be disappointed by the answers to that question for the foreseeable future.

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Post by Sightline »

djmips wrote: post #99
vouaobrasil wrote: post #70

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I agree with this completely. Technology has always made us trade quality for low-quality quantity in exchange for convenience. People now interact more through technology which removes a lot of body language and other enriching experiences. The most dangerous aspect of this is that each step seems relatively harmless: right now, ChatGPT and DALL-E are amusements, but each small step is building a monstrous and as yo…

> Technology has always made us trade quality for low-quality quantity in exchange for convenience. People now interact more through technology which removes a lot of body language and other enriching experiences. I went to the mall today and you can tell malls are dying. I lived in a small town where the mall died and it had a zombie like existence a long time before it finally cratered. The mall here in this larger…

I never went to malls to socialize.

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Post by fullsend »

SV_BubbleTime wrote: post #74
didericis wrote: post #56

I can't tell if I'm starting to get that old person "new things are scary" instinct or if my gut level of fear about the implications of these things is warranted. As impressive as a lot of these models are, I can't help but feel like they're going to end up making an incredible amount of sterile soulless content that makes everyone's lives worse . We're already drowning in ad dominated cynical soulless computer gene…

> As impressive as a lot of these models are, I can't help but feel like they're going to end up making an incredible amount of sterile soulless content that makes everyone's lives worse. Eh. I’ll take a MAYBE over the past 10 years or more of the human driven social media manipulations and scams and poison. We’ve made almost literally fucking nothing of value in a decade. It’s been ads, Ponzi schemes, and a race to…

There was some innovation but 2010-2020 had some dead air as investors lavished ponzi scheme SaaS companies with cash and big firms poured the profits of early internet into VR, AR, AI, drones, self-driving, etc.

The last year and a half things are starting to pop off. OpenAI, SpaceX, Comma, Helion, many more…that doomer “everything sucks and is collapsing” mentality is on the way out in my opinion. The time for talk is over and it’s time to build, or so they say.

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Post by janosdebugs »

UncleEntity wrote: post #39
purplepatrick wrote: post #27

Still sounds pretty fake to me. There’s a hurriedness to the speech and a monotonic uniformity in enunciation that is uncannily machine. Good to know that voice actors will have jobs for a while longer…

> Good to know that voice actors will have jobs for a while longer… They don’t have to work anymore, just sell their voice and sit at home collecting royalty payments is the future according the TFA. And they’ve been making progress on the roboticness with every new model that comes out. Just a matter of time (and data) for the AIs to figure out how words string together naturally.

This assumes that legislation/ajudication won't tell AI companies that grabbing any content they can find and not reimburse the original author is "fair use" or something equivalent in other jurisdictions. Here's to hoping.

Re: This Voice Doesn't Exist – Generative Voice AI

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Post by yreg »

EarlKing wrote: post #105
yreg wrote: post #97

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Any time I see AI model news on hn nowadays, my first question is whether I can run it locally, and if not, what are the alternatives that I can run locally.

> what are the alternatives that I can run locally ...you will be disappointed by the answers to that question for the foreseeable future.

I'm the opposite of disappointed. The amount of public pretrained models that have been popping up recently is crazy.

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Post by kerpotgh »

didericis wrote: post #56

I can't tell if I'm starting to get that old person "new things are scary" instinct or if my gut level of fear about the implications of these things is warranted. As impressive as a lot of these models are, I can't help but feel like they're going to end up making an incredible amount of sterile soulless content that makes everyone's lives worse . We're already drowning in ad dominated cynical soulless computer gene…

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