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Voice acting as a profession will not exist in a couple of years.

by constantcrying 3y ago

nothercastle 3y ago
Is there a good text to speech interface? I’d like to use one to help me to help proofread
- constantcrying 3y ago
  There are various online AI tools which do reasonably convincing Text to speech. All you need is a little push and good tooling around the software to make voice actors entirely replaceable.
paxys 3y ago
Remember how a decade and a half ago everyone was convinced that taxi drivers and truck drivers would be replaced by AI in the coming years? There were even mass protests over it, and governments started to make contingency plans and enact legislation. The topic was discussed to death non-stop all over the internet and news media, just like AI is right now. Meanwhile today not a single driver has lost their job, and in fact there are shortages in all these industries. Don't try and solve a problem before it is even a problem. Heck if anything good AI generated voiceovers will be a huge boost to the indie gaming industry, so I hope it can actually happen.
- constantcrying 3y ago
  Autonomous driving doesn't exist. Convincing Text to speech does, it is just a matter of tooling around it. >Heck if anything good AI generated voiceovers will be a huge boost to the indie gaming industry. And all other video game industries, which will also not be paying voice actors.
  - asadotzler 3y ago
    >Autonomous driving doesn't exist. You haven't been paying attention. There are Waymo fully autonomous rides happening already in multiple very large cities. It exists every bit as much as AI voice acting platforms.
- artninja1988 3y ago
  Also remember when Geoffrey Hinton famously predicted all radiologists would be out of a job by now in 2016? That also didn't happen. So yeah, I would take these predictions with a massive grain of salt. So far the employment numbers in the US are looking extremely good.
  - constantcrying 3y ago
    Many, many predictions about job losses came true. Jobs stop existing if they can be performed automated to a large extent, this has come true for many, many jobs over time. There is a great German video series about elderly people (in their 80s or even 90s) showing the trades they learned when they were young. They were doing stuff like carving troughs out of trees, making wooden wheels, operating water powered saws and similar stuffs. None of these jobs exist anymore. In fact it is completely natural and healthy that there is a transformation in the job market, although it can easily be a tragedy for the individual. >So far the employment numbers in the US are looking extremely good. Voice actors are a tiny group. They don't really factor into nation wide statistics.
- seadan83 3y ago
  > Remember how a decade and a half ago everyone was convinced that taxi drivers and truck drivers would be replaced by AI in the coming years? I remember that as an AI-car company driven hype cycle that was used to justify beta testing their cars on public roads. According to them, traffic Jams were supposed to be a solved problem and everyone would be making 20k/yr leasing out their car as a robotaxi. With that said, the impact of AI is not equal across different industries.
Dwedit 3y ago
Still need voice directing, and the voice director will have to act out the inflections, line delivery, etc before the voice gets switched out for another one. Can't go from text to the desired inflection yet.
lttlrck 3y ago
I doubt very much it's going anyway. But the pool will be smaller. Same with actors replaced with AI. Same as MoCaP, sure an AI can do these things but a human is still better at being a human and human nuance - and much easier to direct. I have a hunch the arts don't need to worry as much as they do now. Celebrity is, has always been and will continue to be a draw.

Voice acting as a profession will not exist in a couple of years.

nothercastle 3y ago

Is there a good text to speech interface? I’d like to use one to help me to help proofread

constantcrying 3y ago
There are various online AI tools which do reasonably convincing Text to speech. All you need is a little push and good tooling around the software to make voice actors entirely replaceable.

paxys 3y ago

Remember how a decade and a half ago everyone was convinced that taxi drivers and truck drivers would be replaced by AI in the coming years? There were even mass protests over it, and governments started to make contingency plans and enact legislation. The topic was discussed to death non-stop all over the internet and news media, just like AI is right now. Meanwhile today not a single driver has lost their job, and in fact there are shortages in all these industries. Don't try and solve a problem before it is even a problem. Heck if anything good AI generated voiceovers will be a huge boost to the indie gaming industry, so I hope it can actually happen.

constantcrying 3y ago
Autonomous driving doesn't exist. Convincing Text to speech does, it is just a matter of tooling around it. >Heck if anything good AI generated voiceovers will be a huge boost to the indie gaming industry. And all other video game industries, which will also not be paying voice actors.
- asadotzler 3y ago
  >Autonomous driving doesn't exist. You haven't been paying attention. There are Waymo fully autonomous rides happening already in multiple very large cities. It exists every bit as much as AI voice acting platforms.
artninja1988 3y ago
Also remember when Geoffrey Hinton famously predicted all radiologists would be out of a job by now in 2016? That also didn't happen. So yeah, I would take these predictions with a massive grain of salt. So far the employment numbers in the US are looking extremely good.
- constantcrying 3y ago
  Many, many predictions about job losses came true. Jobs stop existing if they can be performed automated to a large extent, this has come true for many, many jobs over time. There is a great German video series about elderly people (in their 80s or even 90s) showing the trades they learned when they were young. They were doing stuff like carving troughs out of trees, making wooden wheels, operating water powered saws and similar stuffs. None of these jobs exist anymore. In fact it is completely natural and healthy that there is a transformation in the job market, although it can easily be a tragedy for the individual. >So far the employment numbers in the US are looking extremely good. Voice actors are a tiny group. They don't really factor into nation wide statistics.
seadan83 3y ago
> Remember how a decade and a half ago everyone was convinced that taxi drivers and truck drivers would be replaced by AI in the coming years? I remember that as an AI-car company driven hype cycle that was used to justify beta testing their cars on public roads. According to them, traffic Jams were supposed to be a solved problem and everyone would be making 20k/yr leasing out their car as a robotaxi. With that said, the impact of AI is not equal across different industries.

Dwedit 3y ago

Still need voice directing, and the voice director will have to act out the inflections, line delivery, etc before the voice gets switched out for another one. Can't go from text to the desired inflection yet.

lttlrck 3y ago

I doubt very much it's going anyway. But the pool will be smaller. Same with actors replaced with AI. Same as MoCaP, sure an AI can do these things but a human is still better at being a human and human nuance - and much easier to direct. I have a hunch the arts don't need to worry as much as they do now. Celebrity is, has always been and will continue to be a draw.