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I struggle to find non-evil applications of voice-cloning. Maybe listening to your dead relative's voice one more time? But those use-cases seems so niche to th
by tefkah 9mo ago
I struggle to find non-evil applications of voice-cloning. Maybe listening to your dead relative's voice one more time? But those use-cases seems so niche to the overwhelming use this will likely have: misinformation, scamming, putting voice actors out of work.
- schlupfknoten 9mo agoVoice acting for procedurally generated games?
- semiquaver 9mo agoThey said non-evil.
- chistev 9mo agoBlack mirror episode
- apwheele 9mo agoI would clone my own and do things like create scripted tutorials/presentations and audio books. I do not personally prefer it, but a non-trivial number of individuals like video/audio presentations over writing.
- testing22321 9mo agoI’m currently recording my books into audiobooks the old fashioned way. I wonder good indistinguishable this would be.
- c0balt 9mo agoSelling a voice profile for procedural/generated voice acting (similar to elevenlabs "voices") of a well-known person or pleasant sounding voice could be a legitimate use-case. But only iif actual consent is acquired first. Given that rights about ones likeness (Personality rights) are somewhat defined there might be a legitimate usecase here. For example, a user might prefer a TTS with the voice of a familiar presenter from TV over a generic voice. But it sounds exceedingly easy to abuse (similar to other generative AI applications) in order to exploit end-users (social engineering) and voice "providers" (exploitation of personality rights).
- pogue 9mo agoEleven Labs pays the estate of the people's voices they use, correct? I have their app on my phone and it will read articles in Burt Reynold's voice, Maya Angelou's voice & etc. I'm under the impression that they consented to this and their estate's are being compensated (hopefully).
- solarwindy 9mo agoThe possibility to continue to sound like yourself after permanently losing your voice (e.g. from motor neurone syndrome) is one. Perhaps almost the only one.
- dyauspitr 9mo agoIf you want to make a podcast but don’t want to spend the time reading out the script and then painstakingly audio engineer every part of it.
- kevinrineer 9mo agoWhy would you want to make a podcast then? You don't need to offer a sub-optimal product if you don't want to make it.
- dyauspitr 9mo agoI like writing out the scripts and doing the research. I don’t enjoy cleaning up the audio.
- socks 9mo agoAt my workplace, a colleague in another team used an AI tool to voice/video clone my companies CEO, CRO and CTO (I assume with their permission) and created a mandatory 30 minute training video that they expected us to watch with these monotone fake company leaders doing the presentation. It wasn't even a joke.
- nailer 9mo agoIn Descript it is used to patch words in videos. Last year I proudly said it was "two thousand and five" during a video take, and didn't notice it at the time. I was able to add the "twenty" using Descript.
- yellowapple 9mo agoVideo game mods are the first use case that comes to mind for me. If you want to add new voice lines for a character, your options are: 1. don't (keep it silent); 2. recruit the original VA somehow; 3. recruit an alternative VA (who hopefully sounds close enough to the original to not be jarring); 4. splice voice lines together from existing voice lines; or 5. use text-to-speech. Voice cloning is just Option 5 but with results much closer to Options 2 and 3.
- suburban_strike 9mo agoParody, but it toes the line of evil in being fake.
- octoberfranklin 9mo agoResisting involuntary biometrics. If you're in the USA, your credit card company captures your biometric voiceprint without consent or even notification when you call customer service. This technology makes that pointless.