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Weird A.I. Yankovic: a cursed deep dive into the world of voice cloning

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Post by squeaky-clean »

NoMoreNicksLeft wrote: post #80
dylan604 wrote: post #39

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>How many audio books is 40 hours? Are you reading War & Peace or Cat In The Hat?

I like to read with my eyes, not listen. I honestly have no idea how long an audio book is, hours-wise. I've seen a few for download, and they're always like hundreds of meg, if not over a gig. And that's in mp3, where it should be compressed heavily.

In my audible library, the shortest is the first Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy a 5h51m. The longest is The Power Broker at 66h9m. Most of the books I have are in the 15-25 hour range, but I also have a lot of fantasy stuff that gets near 50 hours (Game of Thrones, Brandon Sanderson...).

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Post by aidenn0 »

darkerside wrote: post #27
dwringer wrote: post #8

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I don't know what I was expecting but that isn't Hurt, it's Surfin' USA with Hurt's lyrics that sound extremely jittery and grainy. I'm curious though if some AI soon could in fact synthesize the Beach Boys' style with the actual chords and melody from the NIN song, possibly with some of the pathos of Johnny Cash as well.

Yeah, I hate it to the point of being personally offended. It has nothing to do with Johnny Cash's rendition. I'd probably feel a bit better, but not much, if it were advertised as a NIN mashup.

NIN and Cash have equal billing on that video. Many people might only know Cash's rendition...

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Post by adamesque »

legitster wrote: post #78
dwringer wrote: post #8

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I don't know what I was expecting but that isn't Hurt, it's Surfin' USA with Hurt's lyrics that sound extremely jittery and grainy. I'm curious though if some AI soon could in fact synthesize the Beach Boys' style with the actual chords and melody from the NIN song, possibly with some of the pathos of Johnny Cash as well.

I agree. The "x words over y music" can be fun, but isn't really impressive as a true genre parody. The one that always comes to mind for me is this video of an Eminem interview done from scratch as a Talking Heads song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kfl3N9nesRg This is potentially something that generative AI could be good at doing (at least recreating vocals), but this parody of the Talking Heads required a lot o…

Yeah, Nick Lutsko is super super funny and a very talented musician. That’s hard to replicate.

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Post by BandButcher »

joenot443 wrote: post #65
simonw wrote: post #2

I did not know about this: "The center of the A.I. cover songs community is a massive 500,000+ member Discord called A.I. Hub, where members trade new tips, tools, techniques, and links to their original and cover songs."

Something I think we're slowly coming to terms with is that the current generation of techies (the ones who can afford to spend hours upon hours tweaking models and sharing results) really prefer Discord over our Web 2.0 forum type communities like this one. Even reddit on, which is lagging in popularity amongst Gen-Z when compared to Discord or TikTok, you can immediately tell upon reading /r/LocalLLMs that a really…

Agree, im in my early 30s and jump through most platforms, but very little with tiktok/discord. but i have to admit a lot of newer content (and tech framework support) has migrated to discord channels. Even some YouTube sports talk shows have their own discord for call ins, etc...

These big teleconference apps are usually hit or miss but discord seems to be the winner currently for actual "social networking", also add in its trend in the gaming community

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Post by all2 »

ssalka wrote: post #13
causi wrote: post #5

AI song covers are incredible, from Goku singing "Don't Stop Me Now" to the cast of Spongebob singing "Ocean Man".

My favorite is the Mr. Krabs cover of "Billie Jean" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CkQ-44PvTs8

This is actually good. Hysterically so.

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Post by tomrod »

colechristensen wrote: post #12
civilitty wrote: post #7

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Unmetered 10+ gigabit connections were on the order of $1/mbit/mo wholesale over a decade ago when I priced out a custom CDN so for the cost of 100 TB of data transfer out of AWS you could get a 24/7 sustained 10gbit/s (>3 PB per month at 100% utilization). Bandwidth has always been crazy cheap.

Indeed. If you're not using a cloud provider bandwidth is extremely cheap. In fact locally I can get a 10 gbps home internet unmetered connection for $300/mo. I'm not sure how they'd react if I transferred 1 PB/mo though :)

Is my math wrong here? 10 gbps -> 8s per 10 GB -> 800s per 1TB -> 80,000s per 1PB -> 22.3 hrs at full speed for 1 PB?

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Post by deepsun »

ImprobableTruth wrote: post #32
minimaxir wrote: post #10

This article only covers the musical aspects of AI voice cloning, but there's another dynamic to AI voice cloning that's more complicated: replacing general voice actors in movies/video games/anime (example: https://www.axios.com/2023/07/24/ai-voice-actors-victoria-at... ) Unlike musicians who can't be replaced without significant postprocessing, have enough money to not be impacted by competition, and have legal mus…

Voices are uncopyrightable, but impersonation isn't legal (see Midler v. Ford, for a notable case), so I don't think the situation is totally clear.

> voice actors are fearing that the ability for generative AI to replicate their voices may cost them work

I'm not sure how to feel about that. I'm against the idea that some people "deserve" being paid for being lucky born with an interesting voice.

On the other hand, the world always worked like that. And, say, hard-working farmer or doctor were also lucky being born with necessary traits to make for their living, while others weren't.

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Post by minimaxir »

deepsun wrote: post #97
ImprobableTruth wrote: post #32

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Voices are uncopyrightable, but impersonation isn't legal (see Midler v. Ford, for a notable case), so I don't think the situation is totally clear.

> voice actors are fearing that the ability for generative AI to replicate their voices may cost them work I'm not sure how to feel about that. I'm against the idea that some people "deserve" being paid for being lucky born with an interesting voice. On the other hand, the world always worked like that. And, say, hard-working farmer or doctor were also lucky being born with necessary traits to make for their living,…

Voice acting is more than just talking into a microphone. It's a skill not limited to the quality of voice.

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Post by sofixa »

ImprobableTruth wrote: post #32
minimaxir wrote: post #10

This article only covers the musical aspects of AI voice cloning, but there's another dynamic to AI voice cloning that's more complicated: replacing general voice actors in movies/video games/anime (example: https://www.axios.com/2023/07/24/ai-voice-actors-victoria-at... ) Unlike musicians who can't be replaced without significant postprocessing, have enough money to not be impacted by competition, and have legal mus…

Voices are uncopyrightable, but impersonation isn't legal (see Midler v. Ford, for a notable case), so I don't think the situation is totally clear.

It's always funny to me when people cite old American case law and try to wrangle their heads around how that can apply to a situation which the case's participants couldn't have possibly imagined. Shouldn't the correct way to do this be new legislation being created after consulting interest groups to answer the modern problems which exist due to modern realities, like what the EU is doing? It seems much more sensible of an approach instead of wondering how a 15th century ruling's ruler would have applied his thinking about something they couldn't even dream of.

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Post by blagie »

hinkley wrote: post #73

> Artifacts aside, it sounds like Michael Jackson doing a Weird Al impression?! Every line has a distinctly “white and nerdy” vibe: it loses any seriousness and edge, exaggerating words for comic effect and enunciating lyrics really clearly so the punchlines can be heard. No, it sounds like someone doing doing an impression of Weird Al doing an impression of Michael Jackson. Someone whose mom told them they were spec…

... they're good enough.

I have an accent. If not for that, I'd be a great presenter.

If I could translate my voice into a poor Neil deGrasse Tyson, a poor Patrick Steward, a poor Carl Sagan, a poor Morgan Freeman, etc., my presentations would be... better.

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