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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 tux3 »

shaky-carrousel wrote: post #189
spaceman_2020 wrote: post #151

Earlier quoted context omitted.

My YouTube feed is currently filled with videos of whitehats hacking into Indian scam call centers. Most of the time, the giveaway is the callers' Indian accent. If you could simply type into a box and speak with an American accent, it would be really hard to get caught. We're opening a pandora's box here if I'm honest. I'm hardly one for pro-regulation, but good God, we're playing with things here that can really hu…

> If you could simply type into a box and speak with an American accent, it would be really hard to get caught. Not really. If they say "kindly do something", they are Indian scammers.

Yes, however if that were a problem in the scenario above, I'm pretty sure LLMs could fix that as well.

They're already very good at translation today, it stands to reason that they could do the needful when it comes to turning regional English into American English. Or Bri'ish English, if that's the accent you want your TTS model to have.

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Post by [deleted] »

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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Post by [deleted] »

PurpleRamen wrote: post #212
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. Technology evolves. Even if it may start with some low quality aspects, it doesn't need to stay that way. > People now interact more through technology which removes a lot of body language and other enriching experiences. Which is just different communication, not better, nor worse in general. Of course this kinda suck…

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Post by logicallee »

iggykova wrote: post #215
logicallee wrote: post #81

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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…

Hey! ElevenLabs here, confirming that all 3 samples (including the Narrative one) were AI-generated! We'll be opening up our platform later this month and would love for you test it yourself!

congratulations!! I can't tell the first isn't human no matter how much I try. That is an amazing achievement.

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Post by spywaregorilla »

matisqe wrote: post #172
feoren wrote: post #111

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…

ElevenLabs dev here - we believe this is a 2 step process and agree it is needed! 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 tog…

I feel like it would be much harder to create a set of hard controls, like MIDI, to affect the voice acting vs. trying to do a co-embedding space of voices and descriptions of the voices and just saying "Say this quietly and meanly". Thoughts?

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Post by Kiro »

thatguy0900 wrote: post #193
tucosan wrote: post #173

Earlier quoted context omitted.

May I suggest you research the proper way to format commas? 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.

i think english just isnt their native language, this seems pretty snarky.

In what language do you put a space before comma but not after? Even without that the usage is puzzling enough to make me genuinely curious what their native tongue is. It almost reads like a haiku.

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Post by felixdorn »

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…

> technology is ultimately evil

If we stop pursuing technological progress, we'll never be able to reach humanity's true potential. If we keep pursuing technological progress, those futures are still possible. We need to be wiser and mature about the way we pursue it but we still need to pursue it.

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Post by hhjinks »

93po wrote: post #91
wlesieutre wrote: post #33

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Games could have more than three dialogue options again!

I feel like if Bethesda really wants another industry defining game, this is the path they should be taking. AI generated conversation with AI generated voice acting with voice-to-text recognition. You can literally have microphone-voice conversations with NPCs that have rich, AI generated backgrounds and personalities.

How would the union take to that, though? This is not meant as an anti-union comment. I'd just be really surprised if Bethesda ever got to work with union VAs ever again if they went all in on an all-AI voiced game.

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Post by jsjohnst »

Roark66 wrote: post #149
feoren wrote: post #111

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…

I remember in the 80s of last century there was a speech synthesis software I had on an 8 bit computer that accepted either normal text, or phonetic notation that had extra modifiers for basic things like "make this a question" etc.

Do you remember what that was? Dectalk was around in the 80s and so might’ve been that, but it wasn’t a generally available thing. Dr Sbaitso was common, but that wasn’t until 91/92.
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