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This is a good thing. It democratizes access to a product that very, very few could afford when it required a lot of human talent and time to produce. In my exp
by throwaway4aday 3y ago
This is a good thing. It democratizes access to a product that very, very few could afford when it required a lot of human talent and time to produce. In my experience, I only marvel at impressions done as an unexpected party trick and the novelty quickly wears off. If I hear a voiceover that sounds very much like some famous person I'm not imbued with wonder I just perceive that the audio was well produced and don't give it a second thought. I think this kind of automation may even be very good for people with unique voices who are looking to get into voice acting, they should be able to pay some service to clone their voice and then offer it on demand for a small fee. The amount of work they would have to put into this is greatly reduced compared to if they had to do all of the voice acting themselves and they are able to take more customers since the work can be done in parallel. It's like digital publishing for voice acting with the same benefits and detriments e.g. your voice can be cloned like your ebook or song can be torrented but you also get a much bigger market and it's much easier to enter it.
- tptacek 3y agoNo, because the underlying thing has mostly bad uses. The higher bar towards accomplishing it prior to AI mitigated the downsides.