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Launch HN: Play.ht (YC W23) – Generate and clone voices from 20 seconds of audio

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Re: Launch HN: Play.ht (YC W23) – Generate and clone voices from 20 seconds of audio

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Post by cortesoft »

Aachen wrote: post #63
ros86 wrote: post #31

Earlier quoted context omitted.

When I tried this service previously, you had to read (out loud) something saying that you were giving consent.

I'd be curious what the false positive rate on that is. Can you clone anyone's by collecting a set of ten voices with unique timbre reading the required statement plus pitch control to get close enough? A hundred? Or can you trick the neural net by giving it something that sounds like white noise to humans until the NN triggers in the right way and goes "ok yep that's a match, you're authorised now"? Probably not som…

If someone has the capability to trick the service like that, they likely have the capability to recreate the functionality themselves.

Re: Launch HN: Play.ht (YC W23) – Generate and clone voices from 20 seconds of audio

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Post by eganist »

newonhere wrote: post #360
eganist wrote: post #348

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Are there even any criminal laws against this? I mean, it strikes me that there should be, but my non lawyerly self has never heard of any.

Yes, absolutely. Using one‘s likeness without explicit consent first is illegal in (most of?) Europe and is a tricky subject in the US. For example look at Crispin Glover‘s lawsuit against Back to the Future II. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personality_rights

To be clear, I'm looking for references to criminal law, not civil or case law. This all seems a combination of the latter, and even here it's not obvious what applies in cases where a third party produces the infringing content.

Re: Launch HN: Play.ht (YC W23) – Generate and clone voices from 20 seconds of audio

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Post by shw1n »

nanis wrote: post #335

What are the "legitimate" uses cases for this kind of service where they would expect to make money from individuals who want their voices cloned? Dub movies? Audiobooks?

My product (www.dopplio.com) leverages this exact tech to reduce manual work done in sales

So I’m always excited to have more options

Re: Launch HN: Play.ht (YC W23) – Generate and clone voices from 20 seconds of audio

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Post by mahmoudfelfel »

nanis wrote: post #335

What are the "legitimate" uses cases for this kind of service where they would expect to make money from individuals who want their voices cloned? Dub movies? Audiobooks?

We have seen use cases in audiobooks, podcasts, marketing videos, explainer videos, Commercials, and Gaming, among others.

Re: Launch HN: Play.ht (YC W23) – Generate and clone voices from 20 seconds of audio

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Post by utopcell »

gwerbret wrote: post #319

Given the very ( very , VERY) obvious concerns associated with malicious deployment of this tech, and the minimal/largely ineffectual countermeasures deployed by the founders, what surprises me the most is that YC gave this startup its stamp of approval. It used to be that they offered at least a basic sanity check to anything they funded. Is this now getting lost as they scale up their funding operations?

Can't you take a moment and appreciate the great technical achievement before you ?
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