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Re: AI Guesses Your Accent

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Post by throw646577 »

sebzim4500 wrote: post #85
throw646577 wrote: post #81

Congratulations: you gave someone a standardised sample of your voice they can use in a programmatic scam. Don't do this.

I don't follow. Why is the data they are getting from this better than the billions of hours of captioned voice data available from youtube/tiktok/instagram/whatever?

I don't mean to suggest that this particular toy is much use. I just mean you should not give random internet games standardised samples of your voice, for this reason.

It's a standardised sample, already correlated to text, close to the microphone, for one thing. You're just making it easier for them.

I mean I suppose you can use "like and subscribe", "without further ado", and "let's get started" as standardised samples if you want to catch a youtuber.

But AFAIK my voice isn't on the internet anywhere. Quite a lot of people are not.

There's a number of ways this information can be connected back, with varying precision, to the person who recorded it.

And we should have learned from the Cambridge Analytica scandal that data is used in ways we do not expect. For example, what if you don't care to reproduce someone's voice, but you do care to extract age/gender/racial background/sexual orientation from it?

Re: AI Guesses Your Accent

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Post by throw646577 »

IggleSniggle wrote: post #94
sebzim4500 wrote: post #85

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I don't follow. Why is the data they are getting from this better than the billions of hours of captioned voice data available from youtube/tiktok/instagram/whatever?

Maybe IP correlation?

That too I guess. And it sets a few cookies.

Re: AI Guesses Your Accent

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Post by shusaku »

jackdawed wrote: post #52

This was a big confidence booster for me as when I first started learning English, people would complement me on how well I spoke English, but I took that as my accent was still detectable. It's only been in the past 5 years that people assumed I was American and made no comment on my English at all, until I disclosed that English was my second language. It's usually certain words that give me trouble, like "cupboard…

It’s funny because an app like this is probably more entertaining if it gets the wrong answer!

Re: AI Guesses Your Accent

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Post by amiga386 »

throw646577 wrote: post #81

Congratulations: you gave someone a standardised sample of your voice they can use in a programmatic scam. Don't do this.

It reminds me of the old Mr T Name Generator (http://brunching.com/mrtname.html)

You enter your First Name, Last Name, Gender, Date of Birth, Pet's Name and Mother's Maiden Name and press the button to find out what your Mr T Name is...

... Mr T says your name is FOOL

Re: AI Guesses Your Accent

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Post by tln »

amiga386 wrote: post #106
throw646577 wrote: post #81

Congratulations: you gave someone a standardised sample of your voice they can use in a programmatic scam. Don't do this.

It reminds me of the old Mr T Name Generator ( http://brunching.com/mrtname.html ) You enter your First Name, Last Name, Gender, Date of Birth, Pet's Name and Mother's Maiden Name and press the button to find out what your Mr T Name is... ... Mr T says your name is FOOL

Ha ha now it prints the CGI source

   #!/usr/bin/perl

   use CGI;
   $section = "toys";
   $author = "steveb";
   $title = "Your Mr. T Name";
   $s_title = "mrtname";
   $cat1 = "moviestv";
   print "Content-type: text/html\n\n";
   require "makehead.pl";
   print &MakeHead;
   print Your Mr. T name is:

   Fool

   EOFILE
   print &MakeFoot;

Re: AI Guesses Your Accent

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Post by throw646577 »

adverbly wrote: post #92
throw646577 wrote: post #81

Congratulations: you gave someone a standardised sample of your voice they can use in a programmatic scam. Don't do this.

Jokes on them. I only tried impressions. It's going to make for some pretty funny programmatic scams!

I have often wondered how much of someone's actual voice leaks through into their impersonations in a way that can be detected.

I just saw an incredible Facebook reel of a voice actor, Shelby Young, saying the same thing in a striking range of theatrical voices, and I still wonder. How much of her true vocal fingerprint is unavoidably there?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DyNnyeu_kPU

(As a fan of old movies, "Vintage" was particularly impressive to me -- she is impersonating not just voices but also the choice of tonality those actors made in light of recording technology)

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