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It is pretty cool and all but is there really a need for such efficiency with regards to bandwidth? Is there a use case that requires so little?

by rapsey 8y ago

Applejinx 8y ago
This is Monty's jam. Why not? What's wrong with impressive technology? And I'll tell you one thing right off. Gaming. What if you wanted to have a seemingly normal game, but when played, you discovered that the characters have seemingly infinite dialogue trees? Tens of thousands of hours of voice performances. What if you could code up a game especially because it became possible to do something like that? What if you had lines delivered in ten different tones of voice and the modulation of that was relevant to gameplay? So it'd seem a little like normal gaming voice acting, except that maybe you'd be getting nonverbal cues and not know why you were reacting differently or getting more tense, except the 'other people' in the game were acting subtly differently. Yes. Yes there are lots of ways to use this type of thing (also, I'll note that game engines like using Xiph tech already, Godot uses .ogg already) Absolutely there's a use case for this. Many.
- jononor 8y ago
  Heavy progress is being made with neural networks for personalized and controllable text-to-speech (TTS). This makes it more and more feasible to generate the speech audio on the fly. Which is a risk to professional voice actors, but a huge opportunity for indie game developers.
- est31 8y ago
  TTS would in fact be better than having the samples recorded and then compressed and sent to the game. You could maybe even do procedurally generated voices speaking procedurally generated text. The quality of TTS is already better than the quality of that codec.
mgamache 8y ago
satellite / emergency / packet radio / low income countries (with bad infrastructure)
Majromax 8y ago
For wireless devices, bandwidth (and size) directly translates to radio time and power. Alternatively, low bandwidth also allows the use of noisier links, since effective bandwidth is the product of the channel width and SNR margin. The military applications of either case are fairly obvious, but I could also imagine the utility for battery-powered devices (portable baby monitors?) if the processing itself is brought within tolerable power limits.
wbl 8y ago
High frequency. Talk around the world with a bit of wire and 100 watts.

It is pretty cool and all but is there really a need for such efficiency with regards to bandwidth? Is there a use case that requires so little?

by rapsey 8y ago

It is pretty cool and all but is there really a need for such efficiency with regards to bandwidth? Is there a use case that requires so little?

Applejinx 8y ago

This is Monty's jam. Why not? What's wrong with impressive technology? And I'll tell you one thing right off. Gaming. What if you wanted to have a seemingly normal game, but when played, you discovered that the characters have seemingly infinite dialogue trees? Tens of thousands of hours of voice performances. What if you could code up a game especially because it became possible to do something like that? What if you had lines delivered in ten different tones of voice and the modulation of that was relevant to gameplay? So it'd seem a little like normal gaming voice acting, except that maybe you'd be getting nonverbal cues and not know why you were reacting differently or getting more tense, except the 'other people' in the game were acting subtly differently. Yes. Yes there are lots of ways to use this type of thing (also, I'll note that game engines like using Xiph tech already, Godot uses .ogg already) Absolutely there's a use case for this. Many.

jononor 8y ago
Heavy progress is being made with neural networks for personalized and controllable text-to-speech (TTS). This makes it more and more feasible to generate the speech audio on the fly. Which is a risk to professional voice actors, but a huge opportunity for indie game developers.
est31 8y ago
TTS would in fact be better than having the samples recorded and then compressed and sent to the game. You could maybe even do procedurally generated voices speaking procedurally generated text. The quality of TTS is already better than the quality of that codec.

mgamache 8y ago

satellite / emergency / packet radio / low income countries (with bad infrastructure)

Majromax 8y ago

For wireless devices, bandwidth (and size) directly translates to radio time and power. Alternatively, low bandwidth also allows the use of noisier links, since effective bandwidth is the product of the channel width and SNR margin. The military applications of either case are fairly obvious, but I could also imagine the utility for battery-powered devices (portable baby monitors?) if the processing itself is brought within tolerable power limits.

wbl 8y ago

High frequency. Talk around the world with a bit of wire and 100 watts.