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Re: AI Guesses Your Accent

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Probably should be read as "bad actors", who, with enough samples of your voice, could theoretically do shady things like robo-call your mom, pretending to be you.

Okay, that’s pretty different from ad companies. I’ve worked in the ads space and what the poster mentioned doesn’t apply in any manner, AFAIK.

it's a joke, but it's not inconceivable that chatbots which support voice like chatgpt will use voice fingerprinting for ads

Re: AI Guesses Your Accent

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It's fun but as I tested it I realized how this is pretty much the modern equivalent of a Facebook quiz that asks you the name of your first pet, first car and mother's maiden name. If they recorded any of that they likely have enough to clone my voice somewhat faithfully. Congratulations on labelling my French Canadian accent as French though, I'll have to work on my pronounciation more to fool the AI.

French Canadian and France French accents are very different, so if the AI couldn't tell the difference, that doesn't speak well for it

Does it regionalize at all? There are a few comments about Portugal Portuguese vs Brazil Portuguese so I think it only tries to find your first language, not actually pinpoint the underlying accent.

Re: AI Guesses Your Accent

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Congratulations: you gave someone a standardised sample of your voice they can use in a programmatic scam. Don't do this.

I don't follow. Why is the data they are getting from this better than the billions of hours of captioned voice data available from youtube/tiktok/instagram/whatever?

Maybe IP correlation?

Re: AI Guesses Your Accent

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The app this is advertising helps non-native speakers with their accent, I assume to sound more American. This is a great goal, and I'm sure there are a lot of people who would be willing to pay the $200-$300 yearly subscription cost. Apparently the AI part is not even the main function of the app, that's what the extra $100 are paying for[1]. I would be interested in an AI-only product that would help me learn to pa…

I would pay for an equivalent app that helped my German pronunciation

I would be interested in an equivalent app for Japanese.

Re: AI Guesses Your Accent

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The app this is advertising helps non-native speakers with their accent, I assume to sound more American. This is a great goal, and I'm sure there are a lot of people who would be willing to pay the $200-$300 yearly subscription cost. Apparently the AI part is not even the main function of the app, that's what the extra $100 are paying for[1]. I would be interested in an AI-only product that would help me learn to pa…

It's kind of annoying when services like this provide a free trial that you have to give a credit card number to even try, capitalizing on people forgetting to unsubscribe after trying.

Also, I'm very suspicious when a credit card form is on $site.com rather than $financial-institution.com

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