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Agreed. Now I'm still waiting for someone to succeed at a clean-room recreation of Majel Barrett's voice, so we can finally have computers sound like they alwa
by TeMPOraL 9mo ago
Agreed.
Now I'm still waiting for someone to succeed at a clean-room recreation of Majel Barrett's voice, so we can finally have computers sound like they always should have.
We could've been there a decade ago, but the high-quality audio samples, made officially and specifically with possibility of this use in mind, got trapped somewhere between the estate, producers, and a commercial interest that called dibs, and then procrastinated on the project instead.
- isoprophlex 9mo agoI just yeeted a bunch of extremely noisy fragments into elevenlabs, and it came out pretty good on their cheap $5 plan. If you're after this for your own amusement, let me know if you want a screencap, or a dump of the source files. Obv no clean room reconstruction but good enough for personal use...
- sigmoid10 9mo agoI have lots of super high quality, clean audio recordings from her ripped from an old video game that she did voice work for. I've tried various TTS models over the years with it. Getting the pitch and tune is easy, but getting the impersonal detached robot-y feeling is kinda tricky. But I haven't tried in the past 6 months, so maybe it's time to give it another shot.
- isoprophlex 9mo agohttps://github.com/jarombouts/star-trek-voice-clone https://github.com/jarombouts/star-trek-voice-clone audio files sourced from https://www.trekcore.com/audio/ https://www.trekcore.com/audio/ the inflection and impersonal feel is definitely hard to get right. there are parameters in the elevenlabs API docs to make the voice more stable (= monotonous; see speak.sh in that repo) but still the voice cloner on my $5 plan doesn't really get it right. nevertheless... i'm still having a lot of fun with this. edit: if I am forced to rot my brain with the 10x productivity boosting slop gun, at least I'll do it grinning > pod cleaned up. waiting on the behemoth to finish grinding through Italy. < if only postgres had progress indicators ... then they coulda called it progresql > lmaooo > Bash(~/speak.sh "Joke detected. Humor subroutine engaged. Ha. Ha. Ha.")
- s0ss 9mo agoI did this. She recorded clean (imo, i cleaned it up) audio for “Star Trek: The Next Generation Interactive Technical Manual” which is available on archive.org.
- wlesieutre 9mo agoI think "clean-room recreation" meant "make a similar sounding voice from scratch without copyrighted recording samples"
- s0ss 9mo agoYeah, I agree, that's a good point.
- Tommix11 9mo agoI would like WOPR's voice from Wargames.
- Intermernet 9mo agoApparently John Wood read the lines in reverse order to make the enunciation weird. If you train a model, feed the lines you want in reverse word order, then split on silence and reverse them again, you should come close.
- eddyg 9mo agoQuoting from https://web.archive.org/web/20181118114804/http://imsai.net/movies/wargames-2.htm https://web.archive.org/web/20181118114804/http://imsai.net/... “Director John Badham states in the commentary that the actor voicing the raw content that was later modified for the computerized effect was John Wood (the Falken character), reading the script word-for-word in reverse order in order to portray a "flat quality" with limited inflection. That raw audio was then edited and re-assembled after being run through audio processing equipment to achieve the desired effect.”
- dtech 9mo agoFor those like me who are not into Star Trek lore deep enough to recognize the name, she voiced the Star Trek computer in basically all the series .
- acomjean 9mo agoThanks. I wasn’t sure what she voiced. I thought “computers sounding like they always should have” might mean GladOS from portal.
- dgacmu 9mo agoI would love hearing Claude finish a task with > Your specimen has been processed and we are now ready to begin the test proper. ... at least, once. Or perhaps exactly once.
- inanutshellus 9mo agoGoodbye "I've successfully completed the task." Hello "This is a triumph!"
- AlexErrant 9mo agoFYI this is already possible https://huggingface.co/WarriorMama777/GLaDOS_TTS https://huggingface.co/WarriorMama777/GLaDOS_TTS
- philipallstar 9mo agoBonus info: she was the wife of Gene Roddenberry, the creator of Star Trek.
- jasondigitized 9mo ago"Greetings Professor Falken" is the only greeting you need