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This Voice Doesn't Exist – Generative Voice AI

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Re: This Voice Doesn't Exist – Generative Voice AI

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Post by 93po »

wlesieutre wrote: post #33
yieldcrv wrote: post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I’m looking forward to NPCs having dynamic responses with real voices Doesn't have to be prerecorded, just trained

Games could have more than three dialogue options again!

I feel like if Bethesda really wants another industry defining game, this is the path they should be taking. AI generated conversation with AI generated voice acting with voice-to-text recognition. You can literally have microphone-voice conversations with NPCs that have rich, AI generated backgrounds and personalities.

Re: This Voice Doesn't Exist – Generative Voice AI

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Post by Kiro »

purplepatrick wrote: post #27

Still sounds pretty fake to me. There’s a hurriedness to the speech and a monotonic uniformity in enunciation that is uncannily machine. Good to know that voice actors will have jobs for a while longer…

Yeah right. You would never pass a blind test on this.

Re: This Voice Doesn't Exist – Generative Voice AI

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Post by krapp »

Kiro wrote: post #90
vouaobrasil wrote: post #70

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I agree with this completely. Technology has always made us trade quality for low-quality quantity in exchange for convenience. People now interact more through technology which removes a lot of body language and other enriching experiences. The most dangerous aspect of this is that each step seems relatively harmless: right now, ChatGPT and DALL-E are amusements, but each small step is building a monstrous and as yo…

Why are you on a forum called Hacker News if you hate technology so much?

It's surprisingly on brand for this place.

Re: This Voice Doesn't Exist – Generative Voice AI

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Post by 93po »

elboru wrote: post #50
holler wrote: post #37

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This will really open pandoras box for scammers and other bad actors. Grandma won't know she's speaking with an AI.

Grandma already falls for scams. Will I know I’m speaking with an AI?

I think this easiest question for a turing test to AI: "What would you choose as a turing test for an AI?"

Re: This Voice Doesn't Exist – Generative Voice AI

#96

Post by beebmam »

vouaobrasil wrote: post #70
didericis wrote: post #56

I can't tell if I'm starting to get that old person "new things are scary" instinct or if my gut level of fear about the implications of these things is warranted. As impressive as a lot of these models are, I can't help but feel like they're going to end up making an incredible amount of sterile soulless content that makes everyone's lives worse . We're already drowning in ad dominated cynical soulless computer gene…

I agree with this completely. Technology has always made us trade quality for low-quality quantity in exchange for convenience. People now interact more through technology which removes a lot of body language and other enriching experiences. The most dangerous aspect of this is that each step seems relatively harmless: right now, ChatGPT and DALL-E are amusements, but each small step is building a monstrous and as yo…

I would have died long ago without modern technology, and the many surgeries I have needed. It's hard to take your argument seriously when I consider the consequences of what you're advocating for.

Re: This Voice Doesn't Exist – Generative Voice AI

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Post by yreg »

pronlover723 wrote: post #84

What are the odds of this kind of thing being open source so I can use it at home. So far, most of the "good" text-to-speech systems are all commercial services https://aws.amazon.com/polly/ https://cloud.google.com/text-to-speech https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/products/cognitive-service... And now one is also a service. I tried using tortoise-tts on my M1. Generating a 7 minute speech took 3 days and, while bette…

Any time I see AI model news on hn nowadays, my first question is whether I can run it locally, and if not, what are the alternatives that I can run locally.

Re: This Voice Doesn't Exist – Generative Voice AI

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Post by 8note »

affgrff2 wrote: post #88
5350-uiop-1130 wrote: post #79

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I think we already have a lot of soulless human generated search results. I think there will be need for a greater level of filtering and curation yes, but I see it as an opportunity both for creators and curators. The barriers to entry for media creation will go down, but with saturation also the already low margins of profit will get worse.

Also, AI will do the filtering, not just blocking uninteresting content, but actually removing known and uninteresting information from content.

I'm not confident that ai will ever catch up with scams for new scammer tactics.

Re: This Voice Doesn't Exist – Generative Voice AI

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Post by djmips »

vouaobrasil wrote: post #70
didericis wrote: post #56

I can't tell if I'm starting to get that old person "new things are scary" instinct or if my gut level of fear about the implications of these things is warranted. As impressive as a lot of these models are, I can't help but feel like they're going to end up making an incredible amount of sterile soulless content that makes everyone's lives worse . We're already drowning in ad dominated cynical soulless computer gene…

I agree with this completely. Technology has always made us trade quality for low-quality quantity in exchange for convenience. People now interact more through technology which removes a lot of body language and other enriching experiences. The most dangerous aspect of this is that each step seems relatively harmless: right now, ChatGPT and DALL-E are amusements, but each small step is building a monstrous and as yo…

> Technology has always made us trade quality for low-quality quantity in exchange for convenience. People now interact more through technology which removes a lot of body language and other enriching experiences.

I went to the mall today and you can tell malls are dying. I lived in a small town where the mall died and it had a zombie like existence a long time before it finally cratered. The mall here in this larger town has that feeling. I also thought about how nice it is to go to the mall just to be out among people. The same is true of the downtown. If the endgame is for everyone to stay home and shop online that's going to be a very soulless existence.

Re: This Voice Doesn't Exist – Generative Voice AI

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Post by PaulBGD_ »

93po wrote: post #91
wlesieutre wrote: post #33

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Games could have more than three dialogue options again!

I feel like if Bethesda really wants another industry defining game, this is the path they should be taking. AI generated conversation with AI generated voice acting with voice-to-text recognition. You can literally have microphone-voice conversations with NPCs that have rich, AI generated backgrounds and personalities.

Even bigger than that (I think at least) is the potential for fully voiced mods. There’s nothing stopping modders at that point from adding content indistinguishable from the base game.
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