Sounds well behind the current best text-to-speech.
China's AI news anchors
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#82That website is so horrendous to use it made my phone feel dirty.
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#83Wow text-to-speech doesn't seem to have gotten very far in the last 20 years? When we were kids we used to use a windows (3.1?) program for prank calls and it didn't sound much worse.. I would have thought by now basic things like word spacing and tones would have improved to the point where you would only realise its artificial occasionally.
Wow text-to-speech doesn't seem to have gotten very far in the last 20 years
FWIW, I find that the macOS' Tom voice is remarkably good. I sometimes wonder if it's what NPR uses for some of its on-air messages, or if Apple's voice was just based on the same guy.
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#84Earlier quoted context omitted.
Once general-purpose GPUs get 100x faster (by 2025?), they'll get classified as weapons and one would need a strictly regulated license to do Deep Learning on them, with computations logged/snapshotted onto some governmental server. Gamers will be forced to stream from cloud.
Can you name another common computer technology that has gotten so advanced it became classified as a weapon? The notion that in six years general purpose GPUs will be strictly regulated as weapons, is pretty comical. It'll never happen. In three or four years the improvemnet scaling will already be enough that whatever scenario you think must wait six years to justify strictly regulating GPU ownership, will already…
> Can you name another common computer technology that has gotten so advanced it became classified as a weapon?
Cryptography export laws shows there's already precedent for this.
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#85I think it is fun stuff, and it was one of the plot points in Heinlen's "The Moon is a Harsh Mistress", but the execution is still a bit off.
It gets really wild when you can generatively create a movie just from the screenplay description and perhaps a set of storyboards. That will make the amount of crap video available explode uncontrollably.
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#86The idea of a virtual anchor was pioneered >10 years ago by a group at the Northwestern CS Department including Kris Hammond. The project was called "News at Seven." This video shows the later iterations of it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M3MRkFYM9Q4 IIRC the early version around 2005 or 2006 used the Half Life 2 engine, so you would have Alyx Vance reading the news with a gun strapped to her belt. At the time I…
That was me! I came here to comment some version of "Ahem, we were doing this in 2005 at Northwestern" and seeing your comment to the same effect made me super happy. Thanks for noticing and remembering!
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#87Earlier quoted context omitted.
> it's not limited to race Very true. https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-27307476 > The Royal College of Midwives (RCM) said there was not enough evidence for the organisation to "either support or not support" placentophagy as there had not been enough research on the health benefits. On the one hand I didn't want to post this because it kinda grossed me out and might ruin someone's day or something -- on the other…
I'm not understanding the relevance here, could you explain?
I already did? OP said they placenta eating is a thing in China, and
> I "totally could see it being a thing in Asia", just because of the other powdered animal stuff; but wasn't aware of it being a thing [everywhere], period, and I guess that would describe many people
so I shared my, uhh, information, instead of just letting that stereotype kinda linger.
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#88Someone still has to type in the text. So they might as well just read it out loud. I don't see the point.
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#89The idea of a virtual anchor was pioneered >10 years ago by a group at the Northwestern CS Department including Kris Hammond. The project was called "News at Seven." This video shows the later iterations of it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M3MRkFYM9Q4 IIRC the early version around 2005 or 2006 used the Half Life 2 engine, so you would have Alyx Vance reading the news with a gun strapped to her belt. At the time I…
That was me! I came here to comment some version of "Ahem, we were doing this in 2005 at Northwestern" and seeing your comment to the same effect made me super happy. Thanks for noticing and remembering!
It was pretty cool! I always wondered why someone didn't try to take it further, i.e. commercialization. Was the tech just too limited at that time?
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> Reminder that one chief editor of the People's daily commited suicide days ago, following several similar suicides. > A stressful job even to read propaganda afterall. Yeah, I've been told these news anchors are expected to not make a single mistake in their speech or presentation during the broadcasts, and that they're timed so precisely that you could set your watch by them.
> and that they're timed so precisely that you could set your watch by them. While your local news may not adhere to an absolutely precise schedule, most broadcast mediums are scheduled to the second. When a program starts, the anchor has exactly 15 seconds to fill. Roll a minute of ads. Then they have 3:45 to fill, etc. Watch CNN or listen to a nationally syndicated radio show, and time it. You'll see that the entir…
Yep. This is the reason when I got out of broadcasting that my ulcers magically went away.