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I am not convinced that it will be even 5 years. Have you tested elevenlabs[1]? They offer different voice cloning techniques today, starting from 30 seconds o

I am not convinced that it will be even 5 years. Have you tested elevenlabs[1]? They offer different voice cloning techniques today, starting from 30 seconds of audio input (sounds somewhat like the cloned voice but definitely not exactly the same) to multiple hours of voice input (sounds like the actual person). In addition, you can adjust the voices with a few parameters or simply create one by defining parameters. The voice from the video could be an 'instantly cloned' voice based on a few seconds of voice input (judging from the quality). If you want to do y more advanced clone, you have to proof that it is your own voice. [1] https://elevenlabs.io https://elevenlabs.io

XorNot 2y ago
It's not the instant cloning that's the issue, it's cloning and tweaking - I don't think we quite have the methodologies built yet to optimize it. But we know it does matter - i.e. there's research which shows a good sound quality on a voice call improves whether people believe what you say[1]. Now in any individual session, you probably can't make particularly big alterations, but imagine say, Google or Amazon shipping a modified voice assistant voice as "the default" with every new speaker box? Whether people ask for the default voice, or change it, would all become data which tells you what people are responding to. And so right there, your new "voice of Google" or "voice of Amazon" you use in other places now becomes informed by wide-scale testing of whether people listen to it. And that's presuming no one simply runs studies where they stick people in fMRI machines and play them an AI voice recording which they module according to neural feedback till it's "optimal". [1] https://today.usc.edu/why-we-believe-something-audio-sound-quality/ https://today.usc.edu/why-we-believe-something-audio-sound-q...
- arendtio 2y ago
  So, you mean, similarly to how ad targeting works today, companies will optimize voices so that individuals respond accordingly to their targets?

XorNot 2y ago

It's not the instant cloning that's the issue, it's cloning and tweaking - I don't think we quite have the methodologies built yet to optimize it. But we know it does matter - i.e. there's research which shows a good sound quality on a voice call improves whether people believe what you say[1]. Now in any individual session, you probably can't make particularly big alterations, but imagine say, Google or Amazon shipping a modified voice assistant voice as "the default" with every new speaker box? Whether people ask for the default voice, or change it, would all become data which tells you what people are responding to. And so right there, your new "voice of Google" or "voice of Amazon" you use in other places now becomes informed by wide-scale testing of whether people listen to it. And that's presuming no one simply runs studies where they stick people in fMRI machines and play them an AI voice recording which they module according to neural feedback till it's "optimal". [1] https://today.usc.edu/why-we-believe-something-audio-sound-quality/ https://today.usc.edu/why-we-believe-something-audio-sound-q...

arendtio 2y ago
So, you mean, similarly to how ad targeting works today, companies will optimize voices so that individuals respond accordingly to their targets?