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Sounds amazing! Just to add a usecase - for many people, creating a decent voiceover is one of the big sticking points for producing youtube videos or education

Sounds amazing! Just to add a usecase - for many people, creating a decent voiceover is one of the big sticking points for producing youtube videos or educational courses. If I could write a script, and have software generate a decent enough voiceover, it would be amazing. It's not even necessary to copy anyone's voice, as long as there's a selection of the most comprehensible and human-sounding ones. Then, you could even automatically generate slideshow presentation from a few illustrations and headlines, and that would make "rendering" articles into videos very fast and easy. I'm sure a lot of people would pay for such service. ---- By the way, recently I've encountered Deep Voice 2, a similar research project by baidu: http://research.baidu.com/deep-voice-2-multi-speaker-neural-text-speech/ http://research.baidu.com/deep-voice-2-multi-speaker-neural-... Results are very impressive.

schemathings 9y ago
Sounds like the 100 speakers they used were Irish or Scottish.
adbrebs 9y ago
Thank you for sharing that! We had not thought about this specific use case yet. It's quite difficult to figure out which use cases are going to become the most popular.
pavel_lishin 9y ago
I made a joke video for work, featuring clips of Sir David Attenborough narrating a fake nature documentary I cut together from video I took at work. It would have been an order of magnitude better if I could just generate arbitrary phrases in his voice. (Or maybe not; maybe the constraint made the video better.)
- joshschreuder 9y ago
  I think the constraint makes the video funnier, take for example dinoflask's edits of Blizzard's Jeff Kaplan https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gXTrrTX7YuY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gXTrrTX7YuY
aaronsnoswell 9y ago
+1 for this use case!