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It seems that the github repository, the youtube videos, and the reddit post have all been deleted by the author. EDIT: archive of the github readme at https:/

It seems that the github repository, the youtube videos, and the reddit post have all been deleted by the author. EDIT: archive of the github readme at https://archive.is/NmIh7 https://archive.is/NmIh7

Cthulhu_ 2y ago
They possibly received a cease & desist from a representative of one or more of the voices used. You can't just use someone's voice to train an AI without their express approval.
- rgbswan 2y ago
  You just can't release your creation into the wild aka 'don't get caught'. Worked at a "customer support" once and got peculiar about the strange audio interface they used. Turns out they recorded every support agent while all incoming calls were fake and the callers mood and words aimed at evoking emotional responses from the support agents. Germany, all big telcos involved and even a huge advertiser. Big teeth, strong bite. Years prior a big shot lawyer tried to get them for something else. Had hard evidence (proof). He settled of course, which was a bit off-character for that guy but if you kept digging, you'd find the classic scheme with big financial institutions and even intelligence agencies involved. They needed a good cause, of course, so rehabilitation & reintegration of youthful offenders as well as ADHD types in therapy (yes, such institutions were directly involved as well) and other 'not yet lost causes' were 'hired' and got paid quite well to get them hooked on monetary reward mechanisms for upselling while 'helping people who are seeking support', so one would naturally be inclined to say that it wasn't bad at all but the opposite, actually; and I would absolutely agree if I didn't think that the vision and leadership of high status people over an obedient FUBU mob through the coming hard times wasn't complete trash. Especially while these soooo complex relationships in the middle east and in the 'defected' viking gene pools are creating "strong people" in the hard times and conditions in war zones who then emigrate to do anything at all cost in the countries they arrive in, feeding Mafia and gangs, lowering supply chain and product quality (aided by governments), increasing exposure to drugs and lowest-end-behaviours and language (think music, film, club culture) and on and on the list goes on ... But hey, 'the candy man' was/is a thing, too. Natural selection, I guess, hahahaha.
  - rgbswan 2y ago
    Addendum: any productive, constructive people, especially 'good' ones who immigrate with bunches of bad and 'ugly' are worth the risk of increased negative social impact. The Social Body can handle it. It's necessary to create counter-measures tho, because legal or illegal barely matters if it serves a big and influential enough interest-group, which nobody can be blamed for but if you don't get caught "nailing" some shady stuff to a wall, you're fine. And it's never about 'then the next guy will take his place'. It's a cute bullshit narrative but not how balance and active balancing work.
- vunderba 2y ago
  Yup, they used and listed some pretty big names as well. Charles martinet is the voice of Mario, so I'm completely unsurprised. I'm honestly not sure what they were expecting. I don't know what the state of the art is for completely synthetic TTS, so maybe the project will come back at some point.
tda 2y ago
>Labor >Rough estimates. > > ~100 Hours of work generating, selecting, splicing and cleaning audio files. > ~30 Hours of programming with the SCI Companion. > ~1/2 Hour on SCIProgramming.com. And it's gone
- gulikoza 2y ago
  I got the audio part, but didn't download the patches :(
  - CaptainFever 2y ago
    Could you release a torrent for it? Maybe someone else has the patches
    - gulikoza 2y ago
      I'm not sure if I can. But if anyone else has the file, the hash is: 82c6658d53fa611273a4742ac824cc98196fd35e Should be pretty magnetic :)
  - TheAmazingRace 2y ago
    I forgot to nab the audio, but I have patches. Care to swap?
    - gulikoza 2y ago
      See the other comment below. Maybe you also have a hash of the patches? :)
      - TheAmazingRace 2y ago
        I'll see what I can do. Hopefully I can magic a hash within the next day. ;)
      - TheAmazingRace 2y ago
        Got a hash for the patches installer: 5ca7c8d557c0bebe986c8d912e5beb02c0851f03 Incidentally I tried reaching out to you via email, but your address appears to not work anymore.

Cthulhu_ 2y ago

They possibly received a cease & desist from a representative of one or more of the voices used. You can't just use someone's voice to train an AI without their express approval.

rgbswan 2y ago
You just can't release your creation into the wild aka 'don't get caught'. Worked at a "customer support" once and got peculiar about the strange audio interface they used. Turns out they recorded every support agent while all incoming calls were fake and the callers mood and words aimed at evoking emotional responses from the support agents. Germany, all big telcos involved and even a huge advertiser. Big teeth, strong bite. Years prior a big shot lawyer tried to get them for something else. Had hard evidence (proof). He settled of course, which was a bit off-character for that guy but if you kept digging, you'd find the classic scheme with big financial institutions and even intelligence agencies involved. They needed a good cause, of course, so rehabilitation & reintegration of youthful offenders as well as ADHD types in therapy (yes, such institutions were directly involved as well) and other 'not yet lost causes' were 'hired' and got paid quite well to get them hooked on monetary reward mechanisms for upselling while 'helping people who are seeking support', so one would naturally be inclined to say that it wasn't bad at all but the opposite, actually; and I would absolutely agree if I didn't think that the vision and leadership of high status people over an obedient FUBU mob through the coming hard times wasn't complete trash. Especially while these soooo complex relationships in the middle east and in the 'defected' viking gene pools are creating "strong people" in the hard times and conditions in war zones who then emigrate to do anything at all cost in the countries they arrive in, feeding Mafia and gangs, lowering supply chain and product quality (aided by governments), increasing exposure to drugs and lowest-end-behaviours and language (think music, film, club culture) and on and on the list goes on ... But hey, 'the candy man' was/is a thing, too. Natural selection, I guess, hahahaha.
- rgbswan 2y ago
  Addendum: any productive, constructive people, especially 'good' ones who immigrate with bunches of bad and 'ugly' are worth the risk of increased negative social impact. The Social Body can handle it. It's necessary to create counter-measures tho, because legal or illegal barely matters if it serves a big and influential enough interest-group, which nobody can be blamed for but if you don't get caught "nailing" some shady stuff to a wall, you're fine. And it's never about 'then the next guy will take his place'. It's a cute bullshit narrative but not how balance and active balancing work.
vunderba 2y ago
Yup, they used and listed some pretty big names as well. Charles martinet is the voice of Mario, so I'm completely unsurprised. I'm honestly not sure what they were expecting. I don't know what the state of the art is for completely synthetic TTS, so maybe the project will come back at some point.

tda 2y ago

>Labor >Rough estimates. > > ~100 Hours of work generating, selecting, splicing and cleaning audio files. > ~30 Hours of programming with the SCI Companion. > ~1/2 Hour on SCIProgramming.com. And it's gone

gulikoza 2y ago
I got the audio part, but didn't download the patches :(
- CaptainFever 2y ago
  Could you release a torrent for it? Maybe someone else has the patches
  - gulikoza 2y ago
    I'm not sure if I can. But if anyone else has the file, the hash is: 82c6658d53fa611273a4742ac824cc98196fd35e Should be pretty magnetic :)
- TheAmazingRace 2y ago
  I forgot to nab the audio, but I have patches. Care to swap?
  - gulikoza 2y ago
    See the other comment below. Maybe you also have a hash of the patches? :)
    - TheAmazingRace 2y ago
      I'll see what I can do. Hopefully I can magic a hash within the next day. ;)
    - TheAmazingRace 2y ago
      Got a hash for the patches installer: 5ca7c8d557c0bebe986c8d912e5beb02c0851f03 Incidentally I tried reaching out to you via email, but your address appears to not work anymore.