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OpenVoice: Versatile Instant Voice Cloning

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Re: OpenVoice: Versatile Instant Voice Cloning

#51
And suddenly it becomes a bit weird:

https://docs.myshell.ai/tokenomics

Tokenomics

Disclaimer: MyShell is currently in the testing phase, and the content of the whitepaper may be subject to change in the future.

$SHELL is the token used for user incentive, governance and in-app utility.

The total supply of $SHELL is 1,000,000,000

Re: OpenVoice: Versatile Instant Voice Cloning

#52

Can someone give me a practical use case where this adds a net benefit to society?

Unifying a voice in tutorial videos so that the difference in voice does not distract the learner.

Auto non-toxic rephrasing of online chat in video games, let people hear their voice but paraphrase what they said in a manner that doesn't turn the platform into a cesspit.

Cloning your own voice so that you can turn a script into audio without 50 takes and then having to remove a million Ums and errs.

Re: OpenVoice: Versatile Instant Voice Cloning

#53

Can someone give me a practical use case where this adds a net benefit to society?

Person A used to be able to speak, but lost their voice in a accident/because of reason Y. Luckily, there is surviving audio/video with their voice on it, so a text-to-voice with their own voice could be created for them to use.

Re: OpenVoice: Versatile Instant Voice Cloning

#55
post #51

And suddenly it becomes a bit weird: https://docs.myshell.ai/tokenomics Tokenomics Disclaimer: MyShell is currently in the testing phase, and the content of the whitepaper may be subject to change in the future. $SHELL is the token used for user incentive, governance and in-app utility. The total supply of $SHELL is 1,000,000,000

And luckily, this submission seems to be about the paper/technology OpenVoice, not about the company MyShell (whatever that is).

Re: OpenVoice: Versatile Instant Voice Cloning

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post #36

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

I've seen some prank calls (a YouTuber cloned Tucker Carlson's voice and called Alex Jones) but he just had a sound bank with a few pre-generated lines and it fell apart pretty quickly. At least for now there's too much lag to do a real time conversation with a cloned voice. Speech to Text > LLM Response > Generate Audio If that time can shrink to subsecond, I think there'll be madness. (Specifically thinking of roma…

Awful, bots on their own having real conversations with people with the voice of a loved one. Scamming on steroids

Re: OpenVoice: Versatile Instant Voice Cloning

#58

Can someone give me a practical use case where this adds a net benefit to society?

From an indie game dev standpoint, I can probably say a sentence or two in a given way using my standard headset microphone.. and something like this would allow for clean voice lines fairly easily, as long as they don't need to stress too much emotion... But for a $0 game, that would still be beneficial. Imagine all the 2D Zelda/FF like games that don't get played today because people would rather listen to dialogue than read.

Of course, there's also the preservation of the voice of a loved one. I would probably pay to hear my father's voice again but there"s probably only one or two VHS tapes with his voice on it.

Re: OpenVoice: Versatile Instant Voice Cloning

#59

Can someone give me a practical use case where this adds a net benefit to society?

My pastor has an injured, vocal cord that makes him sound gritty at times. A technology like this applied to old copies of his speaking might make him sound like he used to. I don’t know if he’d use something like that since we mostly rely on the Spirit of Christ to open hearts to the truth.

Outside public speakers, there’s probably other people whose lost their voice or have trouble vocalizing who might want to sound like their old selves. This could help them.

Disclaimer: I think these techs will more often do damage than good. I’m just brainstorming an answer to your question.

Re: OpenVoice: Versatile Instant Voice Cloning

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post #49

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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…

> Trust nothing

> This is a society-destroying idea.

Believe it or not, this is how much of the population saw The Internet when it first came close to being mainstream. Everyone and their mother said "Don't believe anything you read on the cybernet", which ended up ironic as everyone and their mother ended up being the ones to believe anything on the cybernet anyways.

> everyone will live in a warped and fragile alternate reality that no one can agree on.

How is this any different from today? The various corners of the internet (which is mostly divided by languages: English, Russian, Spanish, Chinese and Portuguese) already have these vastly different realities and ground-truths.

I'm sure we could survive another Internet-Winter where people trust everything a bit less than today.

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