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Re: AI Guesses Your Accent

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Post by hug »

dhosek wrote: post #119
create-username wrote: post #114

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those words are your Shibboleths, words that give your origin away. When I was in Germany, friendly people used to compliment me on my language skill saying "your German is good!". To which I would reciprocate: "thanks, yours too!"

My ex-wife whose native language is Spanish worked hard to eliminate her accent because she got tired of people calling her accent “cute.” Her shibboleths were anything with a schwa. The whole concept of schwas offends her sense of vocalic purity.

So her shibboleths were approximately every word in the English language?

Re: AI Guesses Your Accent

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Post by Andrex »

imbnwa wrote: post #120
binary132 wrote: post #75

I’d be interested in a version of this that guesses regional American accent backgrounds. I’d like to think it would have a hard time with me.

I honestly thought that's what this was about lol

I was hoping too. I'm curious if I sound like everyone around me or not, I don't have an objective enough ear to tell.

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Post by [deleted] »

mavhc wrote: post #136
throw646577 wrote: post #101

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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 sa…

Or teach people not to trust that you said something just because something sounds like you. Use actual authentication instead of implied. Same for photos, videos

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Re: AI Guesses Your Accent

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Post by throw646577 »

circuit10 wrote: post #140
throw646577 wrote: post #101

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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 sa…

There are already voice cloning tools that work without needing a standardised sample like this

There are, and they still need people to provide voice samples. So don't play games like this.

Re: AI Guesses Your Accent

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Post by wkoszek »

The big question now would be: has anyone used BoldVoice or any other method to convert from 90%+ of accent A to 90%+ to accent B and can switch between those seemlessly?

Re: AI Guesses Your Accent

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Post by chungy »

throw646577 wrote: post #110
adverbly wrote: post #92

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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, "Vintag…

I'm usually able to identify most of the big VAs regardless of the disguise they're putting into their voice. Dan Castellenta, Jon Lovitz, Maurice LaMarche, Rob Paulsen, Jim Cummings all come to mind as ones I've correctly identified in various productions. The list is larger I'm sure.

An AI might be able to gain a higher success rate than me.

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