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Re:Andrew Mason’s Descript raises $15M and acquires Lyrebird by bgrynol on Thursday September 19, 2019 @10:08AM (#21016292)
People will be able to create some serious deep fakes of audio recordings with Overdub. Where it will get really wild is when you can change the voice of the original recording into your "voice of preference" for listening purposes. Ie- instead of Ira Glass narrating This American Life, think what it will be like when you can listen to TAL with Morgan Freeman narrating it!
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Re:Andrew Mason’s Descript raises $15M and acquires Lyrebird by sbuccini on Thursday September 19, 2019 @11:13AM (#21016951)
As stated in the article, Overdub forces you to read random sentences so you can’t just feed in hours of audio. That being said, this technology is quickly becoming commoditized and I suspect others won’t be as scrupulous.
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Re:Andrew Mason’s Descript raises $15M and acquires Lyrebird by pfranz on Thursday September 19, 2019 @04:09PM (#21020195)
Their video pokes fun at that: https://youtu.be/Maz0TVyTwiw?t=141
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