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OpenVoice: Versatile Instant Voice Cloning

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Re: OpenVoice: Versatile Instant Voice Cloning

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

The readme on the linked github reads: “MyShell reserves the ability to detect whether an audio is generated by OpenVoice, no matter whether the watermark is added or not.”

As you say, right at the bottom https://github.com/myshell-ai/OpenVoice

Ah, thank you. Guess that's OK that the company/service do whatever they want, the paper/technique doesn't involve watermarks, so it'd be easy to remove/modify whatever they do in the library/service itself.

Re: OpenVoice: Versatile Instant Voice Cloning

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post #33

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Care to elaborate for someone lacking context?

Adobe did the same thing years ago and never released it, because there's nothing productive you can do with it if it's not proven to be one's own voice that you have control over.

Re: OpenVoice: Versatile Instant Voice Cloning

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I love this paper. It reads very much like "this is what we did, and we want to help others do it too." Also, the section "Remark on Novelty" is golden: "OpenVoice does not intend to invent the submodules in the model structure ... The contribution of OpenVoice is the decoupled framework that seperates the voice style and language control from the tone color cloning." They don't try to hype up their contribution.

Re: OpenVoice: Versatile Instant Voice Cloning

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post #33

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Care to elaborate for someone lacking context?

You don't know what voice cloning is and what it can be used for? These people made it even easier to do. That's their achievement. Facilitating fraud, confusion and distrust.

Re: OpenVoice: Versatile Instant Voice Cloning

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> 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. So it is not 'open' then and you cannot make money out of this?

It is open, just not by your definition. You can view, use and modify the code to your hearts content. Sounds pretty open to me!

As long as your hearts content isn't commercial

Re: OpenVoice: Versatile Instant Voice Cloning

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

You can’t. Scammers who don’t care about noncommercial licenses sure can!

This is the most insightful take. Licenses like this prevent certain businesses in certain countries, but it is quite harmful as it adds a powerful tool for propaganda/scammers/etc who don’t care about the laws. Additionally, it only really hurts small businesses & startups as the big companies all have teams that can make their own version or pay for 3rd party apis for easily. So yeah, us startup folks won’t like th…

erm, it's existence provides to scammers.

unless you're proposing it's use in detecting itself is some how symmetrical, which I really don't think is anything but unproven conjecture.

Re: OpenVoice: Versatile Instant Voice Cloning

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Welcome to the new era of fakes and scams beyond our wildest imagination !

Elevenlabs has been around for a while now. Genie has been out of the bottle for a bit, and the sooner the notion that anything digital can be easily faked seeps into the wider consciousness the better. Trust nothing.

> * the notion that anything digital can be easily faked seeps into the wider consciousness the better. Trust nothing.*

This is a society-destroying idea.

Most of us, especially younger people, only know how to vote, where there are wars, or even what our parents are doing by using digital media.

If digital media becomes untrustworthy, everyone will live in a warped and fragile alternate reality that no one can agree on.

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