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Honestly that doesn’t bother me very much, so long as the script is human-written. YouTube has always had videos with TTS narration, and I’d rather be listening
by 542458 3y ago
Honestly that doesn’t bother me very much, so long as the script is human-written. YouTube has always had videos with TTS narration, and I’d rather be listening to that than an incomprehensible accent or $0.50 microphone.
There’s one clever channel that makes content about the Deus Ex games that uses voice synths trained on the games’s characters - which, in addition to making the narration a bit more interesting is very on-brand for a cyberpunk game.
Here’s a video. You can see that the translation from “real” JC Denton dialogue in the first few seconds to fake AI voice is surprisingly smooth (helped by the admittedly weird voice acting in the game), although there are always a few spots in the video where it breaks down (which the author usually leaves in for laughs): https://youtu.be/jDYVx3nqgxw https://youtu.be/jDYVx3nqgxw
- jwestbury 3y agoI was prepared to criticise this video - but upon inspection, it really captures the low quality[0] of the voice acting in an authentic manner! 0. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wGE2ZB_3ZO0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wGE2ZB_3ZO0
- taneq 3y agoDo you actually want a human-written script, or do you just want a good script, and use 'human-written' as a proxy for 'good'? In a hypothetical future where most AI generated content was qualitatively better than most human content, would you feel the same?
- 542458 3y agoOh for sure, my problem is primarily one of misinformation. If we managed to solve the hallucination problem such that AI content was more reliable than a reasonably smart human I wouldn’t have a problem with it. But for now AI has a bad habit of telling me that “mayonnaise” has four letter Ns or that you can melt eggs.