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What do you need a voice changer for? Does it have to do with Twitch?

remexre 5y ago
Joking around with friends seems reason enough
smoldesu 5y ago
I used it a lot in multiplayer game lobbies to spin elaborate over-the-mic dramas involving a deep-voiced man and his anal-retentive mom. Makes for great fun if you can get your friends in on the action!
- 29athrowaway 5y ago
  Don't use Freudian terminology. Freud theories = debunked pseudoscience.
  - kaladin-jasnah 5y ago
    I contend that OP's usage of Freudian stage theory in a comic and mischievous scenario is an excellent usage of "debunked pseudoscience" that should be avoided in scenarios where it matters.
  - cardiffspaceman 5y ago
    If the joke lands because "we all" understand this debunked pseudoscience, what's the harm? If it doesn't land because no one understands Freud anymore, that makes OP a bad comedian.
  - noduerme 5y ago
    Not for nothin', opening a response with "Don't use X" seems to suggest an anal personality...
cubesnooper 5y ago
I would love to have a voice changer so I could put video streams online without fear of having my voice cloned: https://www.forbes.com/sites/thomasbrewster/2021/10/14/huge-bank-fraud-uses-deep-fake-voice-tech-to-steal-millions/?sh=59ce7d737559 https://www.forbes.com/sites/thomasbrewster/2021/10/14/huge-... Sure, I’m nowhere near a bank director on the list of “attractive targets for voice cloning,” but who knows how widespread this attack might become in the future, and by the time one’s voice is out there on the Net, there’s no way to take it back. I would like to use a voice changer when making phone calls to businesses too. I can totally imagine future corporations creating a new revenue stream by selling models of a known person’s voice to advertisers so they can later correlate the voice to that person. Unfortunate that Lyrebird’s transformations seem easy to reverse. I wonder if there are any FOSS tools that make it harder to recover the original voice.
- glepkos 5y ago
  Unfortunately, a voice changer does not help with that. Human voice and speech is very complex. Just fiddling with some pitches is not enough to fully disguise all that.
  - noduerme 5y ago
    Hmmm. I'm not sure that's true. I doubt modern voice-print analyzers are anywhere near sophisticated enough to be able to tease out timing and pronunciation if you've modified the sound beyond a simple pitch shift.
- noduerme 5y ago
  My bank requests voiceprint verification. I personally think it's a terrible idea - I'm against all kinds of 2FA that involve phones or biometrics, and design my own systems to avoid them. I imagine deepfaked voiceprints might be a very lucrative target for thieves in the near future. In the current moment, voice verification is actually an incentive for kidnappers. Your post gave me an interesting business concept. What if you could buy an anonymous, but totally unique voice, with its own speech patterns and pitches and everything, the way you can currently rent an anonymous email address? Each voice you buy could be generated as a downloadable data set, a one-time sale, subscriptions paid for updates to the software that interprets and reads it.

Joking around with friends seems reason enough

I used it a lot in multiplayer game lobbies to spin elaborate over-the-mic dramas involving a deep-voiced man and his anal-retentive mom. Makes for great fun if you can get your friends in on the action!

29athrowaway 5y ago
Don't use Freudian terminology. Freud theories = debunked pseudoscience.
- kaladin-jasnah 5y ago
  I contend that OP's usage of Freudian stage theory in a comic and mischievous scenario is an excellent usage of "debunked pseudoscience" that should be avoided in scenarios where it matters.
- cardiffspaceman 5y ago
  If the joke lands because "we all" understand this debunked pseudoscience, what's the harm? If it doesn't land because no one understands Freud anymore, that makes OP a bad comedian.
- noduerme 5y ago
  Not for nothin', opening a response with "Don't use X" seems to suggest an anal personality...

cubesnooper 5y ago

I would love to have a voice changer so I could put video streams online without fear of having my voice cloned: https://www.forbes.com/sites/thomasbrewster/2021/10/14/huge-bank-fraud-uses-deep-fake-voice-tech-to-steal-millions/?sh=59ce7d737559 https://www.forbes.com/sites/thomasbrewster/2021/10/14/huge-... Sure, I’m nowhere near a bank director on the list of “attractive targets for voice cloning,” but who knows how widespread this attack might become in the future, and by the time one’s voice is out there on the Net, there’s no way to take it back. I would like to use a voice changer when making phone calls to businesses too. I can totally imagine future corporations creating a new revenue stream by selling models of a known person’s voice to advertisers so they can later correlate the voice to that person. Unfortunate that Lyrebird’s transformations seem easy to reverse. I wonder if there are any FOSS tools that make it harder to recover the original voice.

glepkos 5y ago
Unfortunately, a voice changer does not help with that. Human voice and speech is very complex. Just fiddling with some pitches is not enough to fully disguise all that.
- noduerme 5y ago
  Hmmm. I'm not sure that's true. I doubt modern voice-print analyzers are anywhere near sophisticated enough to be able to tease out timing and pronunciation if you've modified the sound beyond a simple pitch shift.
noduerme 5y ago
My bank requests voiceprint verification. I personally think it's a terrible idea - I'm against all kinds of 2FA that involve phones or biometrics, and design my own systems to avoid them. I imagine deepfaked voiceprints might be a very lucrative target for thieves in the near future. In the current moment, voice verification is actually an incentive for kidnappers. Your post gave me an interesting business concept. What if you could buy an anonymous, but totally unique voice, with its own speech patterns and pitches and everything, the way you can currently rent an anonymous email address? Each voice you buy could be generated as a downloadable data set, a one-time sale, subscriptions paid for updates to the software that interprets and reads it.