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They need to take this and similar AI and come up with better dubbing for movies in other languages. Netflix should really lead the way here with the amount of dubbed content that they currently possess.
Okay can I ask a question that has been bothering me for a long time? Why do seemingly all these text-to-speech programs attempt to produce spoken voice based solely on raw text ? Why don't they consume a MIDI-like text-markup language where you can write phonetic pronunciations along with markup about the emotion, volume, speed, etc.? I feel like this is a huge unnecessary roadblock holding back this kind of technol…
First, we want to the quality you get out-of-the-box to already by brilliant by taking context into account. Granted, that gets you sometimes 98% there and are working to add manipulation possibility to get you to that 100%; for long-texts though the quality you get is great.
For second part, currently TTS providers give complicated toggles that frequently don't affect the speech in the way you want. Initially we are adding a basic SSML-like support and have a more robust language-based idea which we hope will come over the next few months!
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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…
I think ,it's not technology that's real problem ,it's that loss of ethics in domain of knowledge ,since industrial and scientific revolution ,we put more emphasis on reductionism and objectification ,even human are being objectified ,this disease of over rationalism plaguing to every domains of knowledge ,I think it's always been constant battle of rationalism vs romantics .
I know, proper form is a skill that has been lost with the advent of social media.
I posit that the mastery of orthography is a precondition to be taken seriously even today.
The “narrative” example is pretty good, but the “conversational” example is rather unpleasant to listen to. (Especially if you know how well Meryl Streep delivers that monologue in the original: https://youtu.be/Ja2fgquYTCg )
Let's talk about this "Narrative" example. When I listened to it, my first impression was that it must be the real actor they included for comparison purposes but that they failed to label it correctly. I thought it is not machine-generated. I couldn't tell the slightest artifact except what sounded like a low-bitrate sound encoding (maybe using a codec geared toward speech). Can you tell anything "off" about it? As…
Sounds damn good. Would it be possible to use your own voice for training, and replicate it? Obviously that could come with some serious security risks, but it would also make content presentation much easier for many people. Gone are the days of doing voiceover recordings for videos.
Impressive. Any chance there will be an API version of this product for real-time apps?
Where can I use this? Is it public? Is there an API?
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…
My sentiments exactly. I think it's a bit of column A and a bit of column B. I'm reminded of the quote "everything has its pleasure and its price". The more expensive things are to produce, the the less of it there will be, but what is produced will be higher quality across the board. The less expensive it becomes to produce, the more of it will be, and the aggregate quality will be lower.
It's not always a bad thing, but the downsides are plain to see when you look at the amount of spam and low-effort content out there. That said, we've all massively enjoyed the upsides too, so it's a balancing act. I think where things were at before the recent wave generative AI tools was perhaps right on the sweet spot of "it's democratized enough that anyone can have a go, but still requires effort and a degree of talent to do well". The knowledge (and entertainment) I've been able to access thanks for randoms on YouTube is pretty incredible, and I sort of always just accepted the avalanche of spam and clickbait that came with it.
These new tools potentially push that effort/reward ratio to the point where the signal/noise ratio simply gets too high. Of course the "make money online" community is all over this stuff and today I watched a video of a guy showing how you could supposedly clone courses on Udemy using ChatGPT and other tools etc. The problem is the "course" would literally consist of generic advice, high-level information on a particular topic that suffices only as a very surface level introduction and isn't enough to help you build any functional skills in that domain, so it's effectively useless. The only person it's not useless to is him and as he would pocket a cool $5-ish per sale. It was somewhat sad and somewhat sick to hear him cackling away about being able to con people out of money while passing himself off as an expert.
And yet, it's entirely what I would expect would happen.
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…
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…
From the users so far they found it actually enjoyable to listen to and that the breathing and pauses are accurate!