Nice timing as I'm looking for a way to replace espeak. Are there any pretraines text-to-speech models available? Or, some dataset that could be use to train a model?
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#42This is cooler than ChatGPT and image generation as far as I'm concerned. If they're able to bring out the emotional connectivity and purposefulness of the human voice, it will be revolutionary...
The laughing examples are pretty impressive.
"The first AI that can laugh" - https://blog.elevenlabs.io/the_first_ai_that_can_laugh/
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#43I'm "waiting" for the time when scammers will start calling us with similar voices.
Waiting? Talk to some small business owners, they’re already being bombarded. One common tactic is to ask the A.I. to do maths and see it breakdown and say it’s going to ask it’s “supervisor”
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#44I'm both scared and peeking through my fingers at the thought of the evolution of vocal-tuning plugins like Melodyne. Currently you can basically draw the pitch of a vocal performance, however using AI you could re-render the wavefile and adjust more parameters than simply pitch - such as timbre, inflection, vibrato, dynamics, distortion, openness, softness, breathiness, or a bunch of other vocal attributes.
Voice synthesizer plugins, such as Vokaloid or Synthesizer V, can already do that quite convincingly, so it is only a matter of time before it can be applied to existing voice recordings.
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#45Nice timing as I'm looking for a way to replace espeak. Are there any pretraines text-to-speech models available? Or, some dataset that could be use to train a model?
Try https://github.com/neonbjb/tortoise-tts
That one requires a big GPU and isn’t real-time.
If you want to clone a voice and have a shitton of compute to fine tune it’s a good one.
If you just want your computer to tell you you need to be out the door in 30 seconds or you’ll miss the bus then not so much.
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#46Nice timing as I'm looking for a way to replace espeak. Are there any pretraines text-to-speech models available? Or, some dataset that could be use to train a model?
Try https://github.com/neonbjb/tortoise-tts
Thanks! That was the first search and has nicely written colab, so will definitely give it a try. However, I've seen in readme that generating a sentence takes quite a long time.
> On a K80, expect to generate a medium sized sentence every 2 minutes.
Are you aware of other available?
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#48Imagine if in-game voice chat automatically converts player speech into the voice of the character they're playing -- this would resolve a lot of the gender-based harassment problems arising from competitive games requiring vocal communication, since now _everyone's_ default is hiding the actual player's voice, contrasting the "just use a voice changer if you're a girl playing" suggestion which themselves draws atten…
I’m looking forward to NPCs having dynamic responses with real voices Doesn't have to be prerecorded, just trained
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Try https://github.com/neonbjb/tortoise-tts
That one requires a big GPU and isn’t real-time. If you want to clone a voice and have a shitton of compute to fine tune it’s a good one. If you just want your computer to tell you you need to be out the door in 30 seconds or you’ll miss the bus then not so much.
I found that it's much easier for me to read and remember when reading with voice assistant for which I need real-time. Ages ago I bought Ivona Text-to-speech and was serving me very well for many years. The last few years I used AWS Polly and espeak (using this https://github.com/laszukdawid/cracker) but thought that there must be something better.
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Not only voice actors, include radio hosts, documentary/news content, any voice over for anything, as well as imitation of familiar voices.
This will really open pandoras box for scammers and other bad actors. Grandma won't know she's speaking with an AI.
Grandma already falls for scams. Will I know I’m speaking with an AI?