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I also lost my voice in a bizarre fire breathing accident and urgently need to log into my telephone banking account. Can anyone here give me a short list of r

I also lost my voice in a bizarre fire breathing accident and urgently need to log into my telephone banking account. Can anyone here give me a short list of relatively common ethical use cases for this technology. I'm trying to refute the ridiculous accusation that only deceptive, criminal minded people would have any use for this. Thanks. ---- Edit: Thanks for the many good-faith replies. So far I see these breaking down into; Actual disability mitigation (of course I was joking about the circus accident). These are rare but valid. Who wouldn't want their _own_ restored. Entertainment and games Education and translation No further comment on the ethics here, but FWIW I'm nervously looking at this having just written a study module on social engineering attacks, stalking, harassment and confidence tricks. :/ And yes, as bare tech, it is very cool!

serbrech 3y ago
On the fly speech translation but in the voice of the speaker
- 7373737373 3y ago
  Or a different voice if the voice of the speaker or the way they talk is annoying
BriggyDwiggs42 3y ago
Idk but its kinda cool
RobotToaster 3y ago
Could be combined with translation to automatically create dubs for videos/tv/etc.
Larrikin 3y ago
Home Assistant is making huge progress in creating an open source version of Alexa, Siri, etc. You can train it to use your voice, but the obvious use is celebrity voices for your home. Alexa had them, then took them away, and refused to refund people.
- diggan 3y ago
  > but the obvious use is celebrity voices for your home Beside the fact that it seems more like a "entertainment" use case rather than "functional", is it really ethical to use someone's voice without asking/having rights to use it? Small concern, granted, but parent seems to have specifically asked for ethical use cases.
  - ChrisMarshallNY 3y ago
    I believe that a number of celebrities (I think Tom Hanks is one) have already sued companies for using deepfakes of their voices. Of course, the next year (in the US) is gonna see a lot of stuff generated by AI.
corobo 3y ago
I imagine Stephen Hawking would have found a use for this had it been available before everyone got used to his computer speaking voice. Anything that may cause someone to lose their ability to speak along the lines of your example. Another might be for placeholdering - you could use an array of (licensed and used appropriately) voices to pitch a TV show, film, radio show, podcast, etc to give people a decent idea of how it would sound to get financing and hire actual people to make the real version. Ofc you'll need an answer to "why don't we just use these AI voices in the actual production?" from people trying to save a few quid. Simple one- for fun. I'm considering AI cloning my voice and tinkering around until I find something useful to do with it. Maybe in my will I'll open source my vocal likeness as long as it's only to be used commercially as the voice of a spaceship's main computer or something. I'll be a sentence or two factoid in some Wikipedia article 300 years from now, haha. Universal translator - if an AI can replicate my voice it could have me speak all sorts of languages in real-time.. sucks to be a human translator admittedly in this use case. Once the tech is fully ironed out and reliable we could potentially even get rid of "official" languages (eg you have to speak fluent English to be an airline pilot - heck of a learning curve on top of learning to be a pilot if you're from a country that doesn't teach English by default!) I dunno if it'd be a weird uncanny valley thing, I wonder how an audiobook would sound reading a book in my own voice - unless I'm fully immersed in fiction that's generally how I take in a book, subvocalising with my voice in my head - maybe it'd help things bed in a bit better if it's my own voice reading it to me? If so I wonder how fast I could have AI-me read and still be able to take in the content with decent recall.. Might have to test this one! Splintering off the audiobook idea - I wonder if you could help people untrain issues with their speaking in this manner? Like would hearing a non-stuttering version of their voice help someone with a stutter? I am purely in the land of hypothesis at this stage, but might be worth trying! Even if it doesn't help in that way, the person with a stutter would at least have a fallback voice if they're having a bad day of it :) E: ooh, having an AI voice and pitch shifting it may help in training your voice to sound different, as you'd have something to aim for - "I knew I could do it because I heard it being done" sort of theory. The first example that popped into my head was someone transitioning between genders and wanting to adjust their voice to match the change. I imagine there's other fields where this may be useful too - like if you wanted a BBC news job and need to soften out your accent (if they still require Received Pronunciation, idk) Admittedly I could probably come up with more abuse cases than use cases if I put my mind to it, but wanted to stick to the assignment :)
CapsAdmin 3y ago
The practical main use case I can think of is entertainment. Games could use it, either dynamically or prerecorded. Amateur videos could also use it for fun. Outside of that, more versatile text to speech is generally useful for blind people. More emotional and non-robotic narration of text can also be useful non-blind people on the go.
- andrewmcwatters 3y ago
  It would be neat to have your game client locally store a reference sentence on your system and generate voice chat for you at times when you couldn’t speak and could only type.
pmontra 3y ago
I want to use (almost) my own voice in an English video without my country's accent?
raudette 3y ago
For creating games/entertainment/radio drama, allows 1 person to voice act multiple roles
idle_zealot 3y ago
It's mostly interesting to me for artistic applications, like voicing NPC or video dialog, or maybe as a digital assistant voice. Being able to clone existing voices would be useful for parody or fanworks, but I suspect that it is also possible to mix aspects of multiple voices to synthesize new ones to taste.
napkin 3y ago
I’m currently using xtts2 to make language learning more exciting, by training models on speakers I wish to emulate. I’m really into voices, and this has helped tremendously for motivation when learning German.
laurentlb 3y ago
I think there are lots of applications for good Text-To-Speech. Cloning a voice is a way to get lots of new voices to use as TTS. I'm personally building a website with stories designed for language learners. I'd like to have a variety of realistic voices in many languages.
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freedomben 3y ago
The reason I am looking for something, is because a friend of mine died of cancer, but left some voice samples, and I want to narrate an audiobook for his kids in his voice. In general, though, I agree, the legitimate use cases for something like this seem relatively minor compared to the illegitimate use cases. However, the technology is here, and simply depriving every one of it isn't going to stop the scammers, as has already been evidenced. In my opinion, the best thing for us to do is to rapidly get to a place where everybody knows that you cannot trust the voice on the other end anymore, as it could be cloned. Fortunately, the best way to accomplish that is also the same way that we allow average people to benefit from the technology: make it widely available
- nonrandomstring 3y ago
  > In my opinion, the best thing for us to do is to rapidly get to a place where everybody knows that you cannot trust the voice on the other end anymore, Strongly agree with this. Sadly I don't think that transition to default distrust of voice will be rapid. We are wired at quite a low level to respond to voice emotionally. which bypasses our rational scepticism and vigilance. That's why this is a rather big win for the tricksters.
_agt 3y ago
At my university, we’re using this tech to insert minor corrections into lecture recordings (with instructor’s consent of course). Far more efficient than bringing them into a studio for a handful of words, also less disruptive to content than overlaid text.
RyanCavanaugh 3y ago
I'd really like to make some video content (on-screen graphics + voice), but the thought of doing dozens of voice takes and learning to use editing software is really putting me off from it. I'd really rather just write a transcript, polish it until I'm satisfied with it, and then have the computer make the audio for me. I'll probably end up just using OpenAI TTS since it's good enough, but if it could be my actual voice, I'd prefer that.

serbrech 3y ago

On the fly speech translation but in the voice of the speaker

7373737373 3y ago
Or a different voice if the voice of the speaker or the way they talk is annoying

BriggyDwiggs42 3y ago

Idk but its kinda cool

RobotToaster 3y ago

Could be combined with translation to automatically create dubs for videos/tv/etc.

Larrikin 3y ago

Home Assistant is making huge progress in creating an open source version of Alexa, Siri, etc. You can train it to use your voice, but the obvious use is celebrity voices for your home. Alexa had them, then took them away, and refused to refund people.

diggan 3y ago
> but the obvious use is celebrity voices for your home Beside the fact that it seems more like a "entertainment" use case rather than "functional", is it really ethical to use someone's voice without asking/having rights to use it? Small concern, granted, but parent seems to have specifically asked for ethical use cases.
- ChrisMarshallNY 3y ago
  I believe that a number of celebrities (I think Tom Hanks is one) have already sued companies for using deepfakes of their voices. Of course, the next year (in the US) is gonna see a lot of stuff generated by AI.

corobo 3y ago

I imagine Stephen Hawking would have found a use for this had it been available before everyone got used to his computer speaking voice. Anything that may cause someone to lose their ability to speak along the lines of your example. Another might be for placeholdering - you could use an array of (licensed and used appropriately) voices to pitch a TV show, film, radio show, podcast, etc to give people a decent idea of how it would sound to get financing and hire actual people to make the real version. Ofc you'll need an answer to "why don't we just use these AI voices in the actual production?" from people trying to save a few quid. Simple one- for fun. I'm considering AI cloning my voice and tinkering around until I find something useful to do with it. Maybe in my will I'll open source my vocal likeness as long as it's only to be used commercially as the voice of a spaceship's main computer or something. I'll be a sentence or two factoid in some Wikipedia article 300 years from now, haha. Universal translator - if an AI can replicate my voice it could have me speak all sorts of languages in real-time.. sucks to be a human translator admittedly in this use case. Once the tech is fully ironed out and reliable we could potentially even get rid of "official" languages (eg you have to speak fluent English to be an airline pilot - heck of a learning curve on top of learning to be a pilot if you're from a country that doesn't teach English by default!) I dunno if it'd be a weird uncanny valley thing, I wonder how an audiobook would sound reading a book in my own voice - unless I'm fully immersed in fiction that's generally how I take in a book, subvocalising with my voice in my head - maybe it'd help things bed in a bit better if it's my own voice reading it to me? If so I wonder how fast I could have AI-me read and still be able to take in the content with decent recall.. Might have to test this one! Splintering off the audiobook idea - I wonder if you could help people untrain issues with their speaking in this manner? Like would hearing a non-stuttering version of their voice help someone with a stutter? I am purely in the land of hypothesis at this stage, but might be worth trying! Even if it doesn't help in that way, the person with a stutter would at least have a fallback voice if they're having a bad day of it :) E: ooh, having an AI voice and pitch shifting it may help in training your voice to sound different, as you'd have something to aim for - "I knew I could do it because I heard it being done" sort of theory. The first example that popped into my head was someone transitioning between genders and wanting to adjust their voice to match the change. I imagine there's other fields where this may be useful too - like if you wanted a BBC news job and need to soften out your accent (if they still require Received Pronunciation, idk) Admittedly I could probably come up with more abuse cases than use cases if I put my mind to it, but wanted to stick to the assignment :)

CapsAdmin 3y ago

The practical main use case I can think of is entertainment. Games could use it, either dynamically or prerecorded. Amateur videos could also use it for fun. Outside of that, more versatile text to speech is generally useful for blind people. More emotional and non-robotic narration of text can also be useful non-blind people on the go.

andrewmcwatters 3y ago
It would be neat to have your game client locally store a reference sentence on your system and generate voice chat for you at times when you couldn’t speak and could only type.

pmontra 3y ago

I want to use (almost) my own voice in an English video without my country's accent?

raudette 3y ago

For creating games/entertainment/radio drama, allows 1 person to voice act multiple roles

idle_zealot 3y ago

It's mostly interesting to me for artistic applications, like voicing NPC or video dialog, or maybe as a digital assistant voice. Being able to clone existing voices would be useful for parody or fanworks, but I suspect that it is also possible to mix aspects of multiple voices to synthesize new ones to taste.

napkin 3y ago

I’m currently using xtts2 to make language learning more exciting, by training models on speakers I wish to emulate. I’m really into voices, and this has helped tremendously for motivation when learning German.

laurentlb 3y ago

I think there are lots of applications for good Text-To-Speech. Cloning a voice is a way to get lots of new voices to use as TTS. I'm personally building a website with stories designed for language learners. I'd like to have a variety of realistic voices in many languages.

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freedomben 3y ago

The reason I am looking for something, is because a friend of mine died of cancer, but left some voice samples, and I want to narrate an audiobook for his kids in his voice. In general, though, I agree, the legitimate use cases for something like this seem relatively minor compared to the illegitimate use cases. However, the technology is here, and simply depriving every one of it isn't going to stop the scammers, as has already been evidenced. In my opinion, the best thing for us to do is to rapidly get to a place where everybody knows that you cannot trust the voice on the other end anymore, as it could be cloned. Fortunately, the best way to accomplish that is also the same way that we allow average people to benefit from the technology: make it widely available

nonrandomstring 3y ago
> In my opinion, the best thing for us to do is to rapidly get to a place where everybody knows that you cannot trust the voice on the other end anymore, Strongly agree with this. Sadly I don't think that transition to default distrust of voice will be rapid. We are wired at quite a low level to respond to voice emotionally. which bypasses our rational scepticism and vigilance. That's why this is a rather big win for the tricksters.

_agt 3y ago

At my university, we’re using this tech to insert minor corrections into lecture recordings (with instructor’s consent of course). Far more efficient than bringing them into a studio for a handful of words, also less disruptive to content than overlaid text.

RyanCavanaugh 3y ago

I'd really like to make some video content (on-screen graphics + voice), but the thought of doing dozens of voice takes and learning to use editing software is really putting me off from it. I'd really rather just write a transcript, polish it until I'm satisfied with it, and then have the computer make the audio for me. I'll probably end up just using OpenAI TTS since it's good enough, but if it could be my actual voice, I'd prefer that.