Pushing the frontiers of audio generation

Post by KineticLensman » Wed, Oct 30, 2024, 9:20 PM UTC

beAbU wrote: post #56

KineticLensman wrote: post #53

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> a British accent Hmm.... Scottish, Welsh, Irish (Nor'n) or English? If English, North or South? If North, which city? Brummie? Scouse? If South, London? Cockney or Multicultural London English [0]? [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multicultural_London_English

Need to increase your granularity a bit. I live in Wexford Town, Ireland, and the other day I was chatting to a person that told me their old schoolmates from Castlebridge are making fun of their accent changing since moving from their hometown. Castlebridge is 10 minutes away by car. Madness!

Post by htrp » Wed, Oct 30, 2024, 9:27 PM UTC

lancesells wrote: post #38

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We're used to hearing some kind of identity behind voices -- we unconsciously sense clusters of vocabulary, intonation patterns, ticks, frequent interruption vs quiet patience, silence tolerance, response patterns to various triggers, etc that communicate a coherent person of some kind. We may not know that a given speaker is a GenX Methodist from Wisconsin that grew up at skate parks in the suburbs, but we hear clus…

Agreed. To me it sounds like bad voice-over actors reading from a script. So the natural parts of a conversation where you might say the wrong thing and step back to correct yourself are all gone. Impressive for sure.

Post by grugagag » Wed, Oct 30, 2024, 11:01 PM UTC

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"Surely my genAI product won't be used to spam zero-effort slop all over the internet!" - guy whose genAI product will definitely be used to spam zero-effort slop all over the internet.

I think their main target is corporate creative jobs. Background music to ads/videos/etc. And just like with all AI, they will eat the jobs that support the rest of the system, making it a one and done. It will give a one time boost, and then be stuck at that level because creatives won't have the jobs that allowed them to add to the domain. In this case new music styles. New techniques. It's literally eating the see…

Post by crazygringo » Wed, Oct 30, 2024, 11:22 PM UTC

xanderlewis wrote: post #57

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> AI elevator background "music". What are some examples? I haven't encountered this.

Just search 'jazz' on YouTube. Almost all of the results will not consist of 'jazz' in any real sense, but instead a collection of uncanny melodies and chord progressions that wonder around going nowhere, traditionally accompanied by an obscenely eye-offending diffusion model-generated mishmash of seasonal tropes and incongruent interior design choices. Often, it's MIDI bossa nova presumably written by either a machi…

Post by tmjdev » Wed, Oct 30, 2024, 11:54 PM UTC

narag wrote: post #66

tmjdev wrote: post #4

While it is impressive and I like to follow the advancements in this field, it is incredibly frustrating to listen to. I can't put my finger on why exactly. It's definitely closer to human-sounding, but the uncanny valley is so deep here that I find myself thinking "I just want the point, not the fake personality that is coming with it". I can't make it through a 30s demo.

While it is impressive and I like to follow the advancements in this field... Please don't think that I'm trying to suggest... anything . It's just that I'm getting used to read this pattern in the output of LLMs. "While this and that is great...". Maybe we're mimicking them now? I catch myself using these disclaimers even in spoken language.