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Re:Launch HN: Play.ht (YC W23) – Generate and clone voices f... by psychoslave on Monday March 27, 2023 @02:09PM (#35330118)
>long dead relatives talking to you in some memorabilia etc.

It seems a bit weird to me though. I mean, looking back at old records can still pass as mere nostalgic behavior. Wanting new sentences pronounced in disguise of lost relative voices is not great in term of respect for these people to share my own feelings.

Also I guess that now there is not much preventing completely new songs with whatever lyrics staring voices of Elvis, Hendrix and Pavarotti. Actually a continuous flow of on the fly generated lyrics seems perfectly plausible at this level, isn't it?

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Re:Launch HN: Play.ht (YC W23) – Generate and clone voices f... by burkaman on Monday March 27, 2023 @02:19PM (#35330238)
It is weird, and as usual there is a Black Mirror episode with this exact premise. The unforeseen consequences in the episode even seem pretty realistic based on current GPT behavior.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Be_Right_Back

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Re:Launch HN: Play.ht (YC W23) – Generate and clone voices f... by bitL on Monday March 27, 2023 @03:01PM (#35330850)
My grandpa wrote a fiction book so having him read it to me would be kinda cool, even if he's long gone. Still, he technically exists in the 4D universe but the time dimension no longer overlaps with mine.
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