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

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Post by indigochill »

ninjanomnom wrote: post #40
causality0 wrote: post #37

One interesting application of tech like this is to produce story mods for games that still sound like they're using the original voice actors.

If it gets good enough eventually you can bet games will do this at their core too rather than re record lines whenever anything new or different is needed. Then mods just need to add the new script.

I know at least one studio that's already using AWS Polly, (IIRC) for at least prototyping voice lines. I'm not positive that they end up in production, but I've heard samples and IMO they could fly as-is for at least informational lines. I've not yet heard TTS even attempt lines with strong emotion, though.

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

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Post by muststopmyths »

Jugurtha wrote: post #3
iamthemonster wrote: post #2

Ned Flanders is shockingly good. I'm from Australia so I don't know half these characters it has listed, but it has all the major Simpsons characters, and that's enough for me. If I ever end up paralysed and unable to speak, you bet your ass I'm talking like Ned Flanders to everyone.

> If I ever end up paralysed and unable to speak, you bet your ass I'm talking like Ned Flanders to everyone. That's funny. What was the sentence you typed if you don't mind me asking? I had subpar results with 50 cent, chosen randomly, and very NSFW language, but also Obama with "My fellow Americans" was strange. I wonder how they're training and improving the models. I work on a product that could help them train/t…

Obama saying "Don't have a cow man" sounds like an Australian who's lived in South Africa for many years.

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

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Post by smoldesu »

Melting_Harps wrote: post #54
smoldesu wrote: post #22

Earlier quoted context omitted.

15.ai was the original, in a lot of regards. I used to chat with the dude on 4chan, he was a genuinely intelligent (albeit rather socially awkward) guy, and a bit of a perfectionist at that. The downside was that there was always downtime and a few hidden servers floating around. The upside was... almost perfect voice synthesis, even a year ago.

> I used to chat with the dude on 4chan, he was a genuinely intelligent (albeit rather socially awkward) guy, and a bit of a perfectionist at that. Funny, I just wrote about this type of encounter with exceptional talented people with similar results, and while I didn't detail it in the response, several of those were from those I met on 4chan from 2005-2015 (I checked out after gamergate as it got toxic and less fun…

> Also, did you just out yourself as pony** (brony)?

In all fairness, if you looked up my Mastodon account I'd be outed in moments :p

It's not that big of a deal anyways. I still consider it less degenerate than the folks who burn a decade of their life working on an SAAS that they hate. At least I got to go to a few cool conventions.

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

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Post by iszomer »

krylon wrote: post #64

I have always wanted to hear Ayn Rand call for workers to throw off the shackles of bourgeois capitalism. And now I can. Thank you, Internet!

I let (robot) Ayn Rand read a youtube comment I found funny..

https://fakeyou.com/tts/result/TR:ev54r4q5b1txx28k32e1s5nw6t...

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

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Post by capableweb »

jmkni wrote: post #63
pkaye wrote: post #36

Liam Neeson's deep fake voice has a weird stutter when he speaks. https://fakeyou.com/tts/result/TR:twwgqfh2432z2sq1e1k1ek4340...

I found something similar with Mark Zuckerberg's one as well (impressive apart from that) - https://fakeyou.com/tts/result/TR:y47qqrr4kv7b07qncj5cyrdaxe...

It seems longer phrases just simply won't work well. Here is Eric Cartman having a brain aneurysm: https://fakeyou.com/tts/result/TR:81fj66esxpgctxx4s443npz3gf...

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

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Post by capableweb »

wyldfire wrote: post #48
Blackthorn wrote: post #30

Could someone make one for the SpongeBob timecard voice? That would be exceptionally helpful for D&D night.

That one is "just" a French accent on English words? and relatively few unique ones at that. probably wouldn't be hard to train or just brute force the most frequent number and duration words.

Seemingly, assuming there are 10 + 6 combinations (1-10, seconds/minutes/hours/days/weeks/months), it'd probably be less than 250 words and you could use Fiverr to get some native French speaker who knows English (and applies a heavy accent) to do it for you, for less than 10 EUR
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