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Re:Microsoft’s new text-to-speech model can duplicate anyone... by notfried on Monday January 09, 2023 @09:30AM (#34310694)
Once perfected, I can imagine there are many legitimate use cases for it. Like an author using their voice to narrate their audiobook without having to spend time in a recording studio, or Hollywood using it instead of dubbing sessions for re-recording muffed lines. It'd also be interesting if this could be used for foreign language dubbing - imagine if it can use the voice profile of an actor to convert subtitle text files into foreign audio language tracks in in the same tone of the actor.
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Re:Microsoft’s new text-to-speech model can duplicate anyone... by Popeyes on Monday January 09, 2023 @09:53AM (#34310975)
God yes, a dubbed European film without the naff American actor.

Or for games where you can get the language for the NPCs all sorted out and change dialogue right up until it goes gold.

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Re:Microsoft’s new text-to-speech model can duplicate anyone... by galangalalgol on Monday January 09, 2023 @10:11AM (#34311162)
Is the inference so heavy for this that it cannot run as part of the game? I want to play planescape torment with the text read to me, I don't know who I'll cast though. I suspect I actually like text dialogue in games better.
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Re:Microsoft’s new text-to-speech model can duplicate anyone... by wrycoder on Monday January 09, 2023 @10:34AM (#34311445)
I recently updated my telephone contact with a large brokerage service.

Part of this was to voiceprint me during the conversation.

The agent assured me that this was more secure than asking me the customary identification questions, and that their system would just use the voice identification in the future.

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