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I'm not sure I understand what you mean to say. To me it's a reasonable question asking whether text to speech models can complete a missing part of some existi

I'm not sure I understand what you mean to say. To me it's a reasonable question asking whether text to speech models can complete a missing part of some existing speech audio, or make it go on for longer, rather than only generating speech from scratch. I don't see a connection to your faster apps analogy. Fwiw, I imagine this is possible, at least to some extent. I was recently playing with xtts and it can generate speaker embeddings from short periods of speech, so you could use those to provide a logical continuation to existing audio. However, I'm not sure it's possible or easy to manage the "seams" between what is generated and what is preexisting very easily yet. It's certainly not a misguided question to me. Perhaps you could be less curt and offer your domain knowledge to contribute to the discussion? Edit: I see you've edited your post to be more informative, thanks for sharing more of your thoughts.

refulgentis 3y ago
It imposes a cost on others when when you makes false claims like I said or felt the question was unreasonable. I didn't and don't. It is a hard question to understand and an interesting mind-bender to answer. Less policing of the metacontext and more focusing on the discussion at hand will help ensure there's interlocutors around to, at the very least, continue policing.
- IshKebab 3y ago
  Sorry but it was pretty obvious what he meant.
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  - refulgentis 3y ago
    It's not, at all. He could have meant speed, text, audio, words, or phonemes, with least probably images. He probably didn't mean phonemes or he wouldn't be asking. He probably didn't mean arbitrarily slicing 'real' audio and stitching on fake audio - he made repeated references to a video game. He probably didn't mean inpainting and outpainting imagery, even though he made reference to a video game, because its an audio model. Thank you for explaining I deserve to get downvoted through the floor multiple times for asking a question because it's "obvious". Maybe you can explain to the rest of the class what he meant then? If it was obviously phonemes, will you then advocate for them being downvoted through the floor since the answer was obvious? Or is it only people who assume good faith and ask what they meant who deserve downvotes?
    - IshKebab 3y ago
      Inpainting and outpainting of images is when the model generates bits inside or outside the image that don't exist. By analogy he was talking about generating sound inside (I.e. filling gaps) or outside (extrapolating beyond the end) the audio. I don't know why you would think he was talking about inpainting images, words. This whole discussion is about speech synthesis.
      - refulgentis 3y ago
        Right, _until he brought up inpainting and outpainting_. And as I already laid out, the audio options made just about as much sense as the art. I honestly can't believe how committed you are to explaining to me that as the only person who bothered answering, I'm the problem. I've been in AI art when it was 10 people in an IRC room trying to figure out what to do with a bunch of GPUs an ex-hedge fund manager snapped up, and spent the last week working on porting eSpeak, the bedrock of ~all TTS models, from C++. It wasn't "obvious" they didn't mean art, and it definitely was not obvious that they want to splice real voice clips at arbitrary points and insert new words without being a detectable fake for a video game. I needed more info to answer. I'm sorry.
        kelseyfrog 3y ago
        I'll be the first to admit that it was an off the cuff, vague, and unclear question, and I'm lucky some people got it. Wait 'till you learn I'm a woman though. :>

refulgentis 3y ago

It imposes a cost on others when when you makes false claims like I said or felt the question was unreasonable. I didn't and don't. It is a hard question to understand and an interesting mind-bender to answer. Less policing of the metacontext and more focusing on the discussion at hand will help ensure there's interlocutors around to, at the very least, continue policing.

IshKebab 3y ago
Sorry but it was pretty obvious what he meant.
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- refulgentis 3y ago
  It's not, at all. He could have meant speed, text, audio, words, or phonemes, with least probably images. He probably didn't mean phonemes or he wouldn't be asking. He probably didn't mean arbitrarily slicing 'real' audio and stitching on fake audio - he made repeated references to a video game. He probably didn't mean inpainting and outpainting imagery, even though he made reference to a video game, because its an audio model. Thank you for explaining I deserve to get downvoted through the floor multiple times for asking a question because it's "obvious". Maybe you can explain to the rest of the class what he meant then? If it was obviously phonemes, will you then advocate for them being downvoted through the floor since the answer was obvious? Or is it only people who assume good faith and ask what they meant who deserve downvotes?
  - IshKebab 3y ago
    Inpainting and outpainting of images is when the model generates bits inside or outside the image that don't exist. By analogy he was talking about generating sound inside (I.e. filling gaps) or outside (extrapolating beyond the end) the audio. I don't know why you would think he was talking about inpainting images, words. This whole discussion is about speech synthesis.
    - refulgentis 3y ago
      Right, _until he brought up inpainting and outpainting_. And as I already laid out, the audio options made just about as much sense as the art. I honestly can't believe how committed you are to explaining to me that as the only person who bothered answering, I'm the problem. I've been in AI art when it was 10 people in an IRC room trying to figure out what to do with a bunch of GPUs an ex-hedge fund manager snapped up, and spent the last week working on porting eSpeak, the bedrock of ~all TTS models, from C++. It wasn't "obvious" they didn't mean art, and it definitely was not obvious that they want to splice real voice clips at arbitrary points and insert new words without being a detectable fake for a video game. I needed more info to answer. I'm sorry.
      - kelseyfrog 3y ago
        I'll be the first to admit that it was an off the cuff, vague, and unclear question, and I'm lucky some people got it. Wait 'till you learn I'm a woman though. :>