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OpenVoice: Versatile Instant Voice Cloning

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Re: OpenVoice: Versatile Instant Voice Cloning

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Post by DrSiemer »

bryanrasmussen wrote: post #189
squigz wrote: post #125

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Out of curiosity, what/how many legitimate use cases have you considered?

Potential legitimate uses I can think of - 1. licensing voice to other uses - people with recognizable trademarkable voices (actors, singers) have another potential revenue stream. yay! 2. use of past voices - voices that are not 'owned' from the past - let's say Humphrey Bogart's voice, can be used in projects without having to pay for imitator. This would be useful for both marketing and artistic projects. But prob…

Surely software that communicates with people using natural language should be topping all these lists. Direct communication through voice with a local LLM is already possible. It won't be long before it's fast enough to approach natural interaction (if we can solve the "when is it my turn to speak" challenge) and then we enter a new phase of digital interaction and AI training.

Re: OpenVoice: Versatile Instant Voice Cloning

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Post by underlines »

thfuran wrote: post #31
underlines wrote: post #27

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This aera is barely new. Look at how old some of the projects are: https://github.com/underlines/awesome-ml/blob/master/audio-a... The thing that changes is the complexity to run it. I was training my wife's voice and my voice for fun and needed 15min of audio and trained on my 3080 for 40 minutes. Now it's 2 Minutes.

Yes, and the more accessible it is, the more widespread it will be.

True. But the better way forward IMHO is to give access to technology in equal ways, instead of keeping it in the hands of a few who promise they are the good ones. Because then an chilling effect can happen, and the playing field is level.

Re: OpenVoice: Versatile Instant Voice Cloning

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Post by peddling-brink »

IshKebab wrote: post #170
peddling-brink wrote: post #140

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I'll be honest. You've put way more thought into this then I did. But in the spirit of hacker news, I'll continue the argument. > There are no implications. Untrue and absolutist. > Simply downloading a zip from Amazon has zero risk. Agreed. > Even opening an arbitrary zip has essentially zero risk. RCE from opening a zip is obviously a really critical and valuable vulnerability and would not be wasted with a public…

> That being said, if I wanted to distribute a backdoor or cryptominer to a bunch of people with powerful computers, I'd definitely hop on the AI bandwagon. And write and entire novel research paper and open source the code and put it on GitHub? No you wouldn't. Don't be ridiculous.

> And write and entire novel research paper and open source the code and put it on GitHub? No you wouldn't. Don't be ridiculous.

You are moving the goalposts, why?

Regardless, generating a plausible sounding paper with source code is trivial with gpt4. Obviously it wouldn’t withstand scrutiny, but neither would my coinminer.

Re: OpenVoice: Versatile Instant Voice Cloning

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Post by Zuiii »

> This repository is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License, which prohibits commercial usage. MyShell reserves the ability to detect whether an audio is generated by OpenVoice, no matter whether the watermark is added or not.

Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 only prevents the use of the licensed code within other projects. It says nothing about output. People can (and will) use output generated by this for commercial projects, and they will be completely within their rights to do so.

So detect away I guess.

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Post by RossDCurrie »

ametrau wrote: post #161
uoaei wrote: post #149

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So this paper is a thinly veiled ad of myshell.ai's services?

Yes. And I used myshell.ai out of interest. It’s also absolutely terrible.

I went through downloading the open source version yesterday and tried it with my voice in the microphone, and a few other saved wav files.

It was terrible. Absolutely terrible. Like, given how much hype I saw about this, I expected something half decent. It was not. It was bad, so bad bad bad.

I was thinking maybe I did something wrong, but then I watched some of the youtube reviews - these guys were SO excited at the start of the video and then at the end, they all literally said, "Uh, well, you be the judge"

I still can't help but feel there's some kind of trick to it - get the right input sample, done in the right intonation, and maybe you can generate anything

Re: OpenVoice: Versatile Instant Voice Cloning

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Post by bamba26 »

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Re: OpenVoice: Versatile Instant Voice Cloning

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Post by bamba26 »

bamba26 wrote: post #206

The tide is high, a powerful moment reminding us that, even in the face of vastness, we have the strength to overcome obstacles. Each wave is a lesson in perseverance, showing us that no matter how hard we are pushed back, we can always come back stronger. This tide teaches us resilience, adaptability, and the courage to seize new opportunities that come our way. Let’s embrace change as a chance to grow, renew, and e…

The tide is high, a powerful moment reminding us that, even in the face of vastness, we have the strength to overcome obstacles. Each wave is a lesson in perseverance, showing us that no matter how hard we are pushed back, we can always come back stronger. This tide teaches us resilience, adaptability, and the courage to seize new opportunities that come our way. Let’s embrace change as a chance to grow, renew, and explore new horizons.
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