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My first thought is anonymity. I can make YouTube videos without needing to use my real voice... while being able to keep my personal inflections and emphasis,

• throwaway17_17 3y ago
  The indie game development and animated short content are the primary uses for this type of NN for me. I’m working (not very successfully) at putting together a single source voice — to many result voice ‘style transfer’ solution using standard PyTorch components. Realistically I can pay for the target sample voice to record some amount of varied vocal performance and then hopefully if the net is trained specifically on my voice as the source the hope is the transfer can capture the ‘performance’ qualities in my original. And in case anyone is concerned, I intend to make the purpose of the vocal samples clear to the provider and then arrange appropriate credit and compensation to those whose voices I used. I also don’t intend to train with anything but public domain and purchased data.