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Re: Use deep fake tech to say stuff with your favorite characters

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Fictional characters, sure. Real people? That's crossing a line. I believe I own myself, and manipulating my face and voice to say what I did not and never would say is a misuse of my property. I can't fully justify that belief, but I would certainly be enraged beyond reason to see a representation of my principled father speaking against his values.

> Real people? That's crossing a line.

Not really. You can't force people to say stuff they don't want to say, and it was always possible (although with a higher barrier to entry) to come up with recordings of people who sound like other real people. Impersonators aren't a new concept.

Just because you have a recording that sounds like person x saying thing y doesn't mean that person x actually said thing y and, critically, it never did. Nothing has changed here.

> manipulating my face and voice to say what I did not and never would say is a misuse of my property

Your appearance and the way that you sound a) aren't property, and b) aren't yours.

Re: Use deep fake tech to say stuff with your favorite characters

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It's worth mentioning that one similar site is 15.ai[1] [1] https://15.ai

The modding community also has xvasynth, which is an app you can download. It has some voices from popular games. If you don’t want Another Web Service (tm)

My ancestors are smiling at me, imperial, can you say the same?

Re: Use deep fake tech to say stuff with your favorite characters

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It's worth mentioning that one similar site is 15.ai[1] [1] https://15.ai

That one has way less content but the quality is perfect.

Yeah OP's does sound as robotic as ubuntu speech to text, this one is almost completely clear.

Re: Use deep fake tech to say stuff with your favorite characters

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This looks like it was previously known as Vocodes, made by echelon who is here on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23965787 The code repos used are listed in their credits section, and it looks like a mixture of (customised?) Tacotron2, Glow-TTS, HifGan, and others. Videos are generated using Wav2Lip. Text-To-Speech (TTS) has improved greatly over the past several years, but there's still a lot of metallic s…

Thanks a lot for posting this. I've been meaning to take some audio from my grandpa to resurrect my grandpa's voice before my grandma dies, so maybe I'll finally get around to doing it now.
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