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> I had my 70 year mother ask me last week if she should remove her voicemail message because can't people steal her voice with it? I was surprised but I guess

• alternatex 2y ago
  Skype does it in real time (for live translation) with a few seconds of audio. For the reasons discussed in this thread, it continuously forgets its previous training from the call to not make the voice too similar, but just similar enough to distinguish the speakers.
• jerpint 2y ago
  Just a few seconds of speech gets you pretty far with a lot of models
  • caeril 2y ago
    Yes, this is generally true, in order to clone the timbre/pitch/tonality, but if you're going to run a voice cloning scam to fool friends and family members, you need much more to get the cadence, pauses, vocal tics, etc right.
• HeatrayEnjoyer 2y ago
  Almost none, at most as little as a professional impersonator requires. GPT-4o's advanced voice mode would clone the user's voice by accident. A recording clip of one incident is available: >During testing, we also observed rare instances where the model would unintentionally generate an output emulating the user’s voice. >Example of unintentional voice generation, model outbursts “No!” then begins continuing the sentence in a similar sounding voice to the red teamer’s voice https://assets.ctfassets.net/kftzwdyauwt9/4CG0G7y9WOfEkzBpi7ZroN/28ddb86e84776d751c8edea4cdb57873/voice_generation1.wav https://assets.ctfassets.net/kftzwdyauwt9/4CG0G7y9WOfEkzBpi7... https://openai.com/index/gpt-4o-system-card/ https://openai.com/index/gpt-4o-system-card/