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Your A.I. Voice On A Phone, A Good Thing?

 
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Bruce
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PostPosted: Fri May 19, 2023 11:37 am    Post subject: Your A.I. Voice On A Phone, A Good Thing? Reply with quote

A positive use for your artificially recreated voice?

https://9to5mac.com/2023/05/19/everyone-should-use-personal-voice/


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George
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PostPosted: Fri May 19, 2023 12:31 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

There's a free-ish service on the interweb of tubes that is taking folks voiceprints with just a few lines and then it allows the users to type in text and hear themselves saying those words with inflection and such. It's not "crossing the uncanny valley" good but given how little reference it needs to work, it's surprisingly good.

The terms and conditions that nobody reads state very clearly that anyone who dabbles with that free service is giving ownership of those samples to the company who can then do whatever they want with it in programming their own libraries.

Given that it's Apple and how protective their ecosystem is, it's my hope that they're not trying to pull something like that in the background. But I'd definitely read the T&C before jumping on the bandwagon.

(full disclosure: i'm android so i don't have any skin in that game)
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PostPosted: Fri May 19, 2023 12:45 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Seems that way, though I'm sure people will find ways to ruin a good thing.

In general and after some discussions on the topic of AI and large language models (LLMs), my takeaway is that if these things are trained on your own data, they're useful. Think about all the insights you could glean from your voiceover business, for example, if you trained it on everything you'd done -- all your scripts, clients, rates, etc. A treasure trove of value could be unlocked from insights gathered at scale.

The ones trained on public data have ethics issues because... in a word: copyrights.

Really cool to have this stuff for things like this while I'm alive, but after I'm dead? Let me die.

Crazy time to be alive.
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PostPosted: Wed May 31, 2023 4:25 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

[quote="speakingofmike"]Seems that way, though I'm sure people will find ways to ruin a good thing.

Really cool to have this stuff for things like this while I'm alive, but after I'm dead? Let me die.

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