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Re:Lyebird: Clone Your Voice by shannifin on Wednesday September 09, 2020 @02:56PM (#24424466)
I have not yet had any serious use cases with this tech, but I've enjoyed playing around with it and I love its possibilities.

(A while back, as an experiment, I recorded samples with a variety of silly character voices and fake accents; when the end result merged them into one, it sounded hilarious.)

Re:Lyebird: Clone Your Voice by Riccardo_G on Wednesday September 09, 2020 @06:16PM (#24426547)
Hi Shannifin, at Replica (https://replicastudios.com/) we have a lot of serious use cases from our customers and increasingly more uses as the tech has been improving and the product becomes easier to use!

Currently we have seen users develop pretty much anything such as: games from indie to AAA, animations and other creative clips, audio books and spoken stories of all types, enterprise coaching videos, ads, and much more!

Re:Lyebird: Clone Your Voice by coupdejarnac on Wednesday September 09, 2020 @03:17PM (#24424735)
I'll use this to dub over videos I'm making.
Re:Lyebird: Clone Your Voice by singhrac on Wednesday September 09, 2020 @03:54PM (#24425202)
Voice acting for ... games, audiobooks, etc?
Re:Lyebird: Clone Your Voice by shannifin on Wednesday September 09, 2020 @09:44PM (#24428077)
I think the tech still needs a bit more polish to replace great voice acting, but it's definitely an exciting possibility! (Although I've definitely heard some voice acting and audiobook narration (libravox) that's pretty bad and this tech already beats!)
Re:Lyebird: Clone Your Voice by keenmaster on Wednesday September 09, 2020 @05:08PM (#24425917)
Cloning your voice to TTS reader software so that your kids or loved ones can read/listen using your voice.
Re:Lyebird: Clone Your Voice by shannifin on Wednesday September 09, 2020 @09:39PM (#24428048)
That would be awesome
Re:Lyebird: Clone Your Voice by russfink on Wednesday September 09, 2020 @03:13PM (#24424674)
Robocalling, with some interactivity. "Hello! This is Camp Ayne running for city council. How are your kids Doris and Eugene?"
Re:Lyebird: Clone Your Voice by inetknght on Wednesday September 09, 2020 @03:31PM (#24424896)
That's going to be completely indistinguishable from phishing. How would you protect yourself from that?
Re:Lyebird: Clone Your Voice by kevin_thibedeau on Wednesday September 09, 2020 @04:14PM (#24425399)
Lenny will tie them up.
Re:Lyebird: Clone Your Voice by shannifin on Wednesday September 09, 2020 @03:51PM (#24425160)
Or use it with GPT-3 to answer phone calls I don't want to take...