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The next logical evolution is to make your own Vocaloid using publically available speeches, and synthesize any soundbite you want. Coming to you 2020: preside

by yakult 10y ago

The next logical evolution is to make your own Vocaloid using publically available speeches, and synthesize any soundbite you want. Coming to you 2020: president candidate X may or may not have said that he hates women, kicks babies, love hitler, and plans to nuke Wales. You don't even care any more because your airwaves have been saturated with both candidates (and their Vocaloids) saying all kinds of crazy shit in disinformation and counter-disinformation and counter-counter-information campaigns and everybody's desensitized.

Kronopath 10y ago
Already exists, in some form: http://talkobamato.me/synthesize.py?speech_key=77ff00cb8af500c23d74d5bbc7f05560 http://talkobamato.me/synthesize.py?speech_key=77ff00cb8af50...
elcapitan 10y ago
""" Greetings Professor Falken Hello A strange game. The only winning move is not to play. """
btown 10y ago
Someone actually did make soundbanks based on syllables/morae from Trump and Sanders speeches, for the freeware (sadly not open-source) version of Vocaloid [1]. While it is technically extremely difficult to use this technology to approximate English speech (which has a much wider array of possible phonemes than Japanese), the soundbanks can already "cover" some of the more famous Japanese Vocaloid songs [2]. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utau https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utau - which incidentally was the software that created the voice for that erstwhile Nyan Cat meme [2] http://store.vocallective.net/album/trumploid-vs-sanderpoid-2016 http://store.vocallective.net/album/trumploid-vs-sanderpoid-...
RGamma 10y ago
It gets even better when combined with Face2Face, a live-editing software that can transfer facial expressions including lip movements from actors to e.g. politicians on TV: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ohmajJTcpNk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ohmajJTcpNk

by yakult 10y ago

Kronopath 10y ago

Already exists, in some form: http://talkobamato.me/synthesize.py?speech_key=77ff00cb8af500c23d74d5bbc7f05560 http://talkobamato.me/synthesize.py?speech_key=77ff00cb8af50...

elcapitan 10y ago

""" Greetings Professor Falken Hello A strange game. The only winning move is not to play. """

btown 10y ago

Someone actually did make soundbanks based on syllables/morae from Trump and Sanders speeches, for the freeware (sadly not open-source) version of Vocaloid [1]. While it is technically extremely difficult to use this technology to approximate English speech (which has a much wider array of possible phonemes than Japanese), the soundbanks can already "cover" some of the more famous Japanese Vocaloid songs [2]. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utau https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utau - which incidentally was the software that created the voice for that erstwhile Nyan Cat meme [2] http://store.vocallective.net/album/trumploid-vs-sanderpoid-2016 http://store.vocallective.net/album/trumploid-vs-sanderpoid-...

RGamma 10y ago

It gets even better when combined with Face2Face, a live-editing software that can transfer facial expressions including lip movements from actors to e.g. politicians on TV: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ohmajJTcpNk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ohmajJTcpNk