I chose "Batman" and used as test "this is a test". On the word "test" it sounds completely metallic distorted and glitchy.
Which characters seem to work well?
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#32It's worth mentioning that one similar site is 15.ai[1] [1] https://15.ai
There's no comparison between 15.ai and other TTS.
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#33This looks like it was previously known as Vocodes, made by echelon who is here on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23965787 The code repos used are listed in their credits section, and it looks like a mixture of (customised?) Tacotron2, Glow-TTS, HifGan, and others. Videos are generated using Wav2Lip. Text-To-Speech (TTS) has improved greatly over the past several years, but there's still a lot of metallic s…
Thanks for the links! Interesting reading.
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#35Neat
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#36Liam Neeson's deep fake voice has a weird stutter when he speaks.
https://fakeyou.com/tts/result/TR:twwgqfh2432z2sq1e1k1ek4340...
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#37One interesting application of tech like this is to produce story mods for games that still sound like they're using the original voice actors.
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#38Fictional characters, sure. Real people? That's crossing a line. I believe I own myself, and manipulating my face and voice to say what I did not and never would say is a misuse of my property. I can't fully justify that belief, but I would certainly be enraged beyond reason to see a representation of my principled father speaking against his values.
Much as with other things, the problem isn't the creation of the lie, its the publishing of it. I can claim your dad spoke against his values, publish a fake document, draw or photoshop a photo showing him committing a horrendous crime, etc.. Publishing something anonymously as a fake primary document is vaguely new but probably not going to be too common. It's pretty dumb to suggest that I shouldn't be allowed to cr…
Notice that I didn't say it shouldn't be allowed; I said it wad wrong and would make me angry. That's an important distinction that is rarely drawn today, between what people shouldn't do and what they shouldn't be allowed to do.
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#40One interesting application of tech like this is to produce story mods for games that still sound like they're using the original voice actors.
If it gets good enough eventually you can bet games will do this at their core too rather than re record lines whenever anything new or different is needed. Then mods just need to add the new script.