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The implications for the entertainment industry are massive. When I was working in indie game development, I wondered if you could use deepfakes as a voice act
by bick_nyers 5y ago
The implications for the entertainment industry are massive.
When I was working in indie game development, I wondered if you could use deepfakes as a voice actor. Basically get someone famous/good voice with infinite voice lines, without having to pay for studio time. Obviously, you would need them to sign-off on using their voice for commercial purposes.
- chronogram 5y agoHow would you get the acting part of the voice acting right? I can’t imagine you wouldn’t still need a skilled voice actor for that.
- post-it 5y agoA markup language for voice that tells the generator how to inflect everything. It's not on the horizon yet, but anything that our voice can do, a computer will do someday.
- Cthulhu_ 5y agoI believe that's already out there, since services like Alexa will do certain inflections depending on the context of what they're saying. I think.
- bick_nyers 5y agoYup exactly. Anything you would tell a voice actor to do you have in the markup. Obviously, the voice actor can still produce higher quality, probably for a long time to come.
- mgdlbp 5y agohttps://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/cognitive-services/speech-service/speech-synthesis-markup https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/cognitive-services/sp... https://cloud.google.com/text-to-speech/docs/ssml https://cloud.google.com/text-to-speech/docs/ssml https://docs.aws.amazon.com/polly/latest/dg/ssml.html https://docs.aws.amazon.com/polly/latest/dg/ssml.html
- post-it 5y agoNeat! Looks like I'm behind the times already.
- AnIdiotOnTheNet 5y agoThen the person doing the markup becomes the talent you have to pay to make things good.
- jjk166 5y agoIt's a lot easier to write "cries like a baby" or "screams in terror" than it is to actually do it on command, over and over again, for take after take. And one can even imagine a program with emotional slider bars that lets a person listen to how a line sounds with different levels of inflection and then automatically inserts the appropriate markup for the settings the user selects.
- account42 5y agoThat percon can be replacable. Or it can be team. And you don't need to worry about the AI tiring or damaging their vocal cords after trying out different intonations all day. And eventually the there will be good enough automation to generate the intonattions too - either entirely or with minimal input from a voice director.
- M277 5y agoYeah, the acting part is a valid concern. A mod for The Witcher 3 does this to give the main character voiced dialogue[1], but it doesn't really sound.... right. I mean, it is voiced and some lines feel authentic, but some lines also just feel odd. [1]: https://www.gamesradar.com/witcher-3-mod-uses-ai-to-create-new-voice-lines-without-geralts-original-voice-actor/ https://www.gamesradar.com/witcher-3-mod-uses-ai-to-create-n...
- Cthulhu_ 5y agoNot if you're going to voice the Elcor from Mass Effect. "With barely contained terror. You drive a hard bargain."
- wishinghand 5y agoThere's a post on Hacker News for this, by a company called Sonantic.
- echelon 5y agoI'm working on https://vo.codes https://vo.codes The new version is almost ready to launch. I've also got voice to voice conversion working, and I'm trying to make it real time. It's pretty close.
- omgwtfbbq 5y agoAlready happening. Recently was used to recreate Anthony Bourdain's voice: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roadrunner:_A_Film_About_Anthony_Bourdain https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roadrunner:_A_Film_About_Antho...