Riccardo_G

Love the idea, and super clean landing page! Awesome work!

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!

Hey Prophesi, on Replica (https://replicastudios.com/) you can generate voices from our stock library for free, and of course you can create your own Replica voice too.

If you have more audio data you would want to upload to improve the quality of the voice, you can also get in contact with the team and they will help you out!

You can also access your own voice via the API as well as other stock voices.

The Unreal Engine demo was spectacular. The polygons pretty much become quite noise which made the scenery look almost too real in some cases ;) Biased, but I think Replica's AI voice will help a lot of game devs in the future to come!

Memorable NPCs definitely make or break games, or having NPCs at all (looking at you Fallout 76!). One of the most recent great experiences has been with Hollow Knight; I got so immersed in trying to figure out more about these interesting creatures and their stories, even though they barely really had much to say in some cases. I think something that helped a lot was also how different they all were from one another.

On the other hand, a game like Zelda BOTW, I really wanted to get more into the characters, and the cut-scenes were they used voices were incredibly capturing, but then most of their dialogue then ended up just being text, even for the primary characters, which really hurt a bit at the start. The game is still one of the best ever, just wish there was more voiced dialogue. I cannot believe that it was a monetary thing, so maybe just space conservation?

Hopefully https://replicastudios.com/ will be able to help make NPCs more like characters.

They have release it ope-source and here you can find:

Samples: https://as-ideas.github.io/ForwardTacotron/

Github: https://github.com/as-ideas/ForwardTacotron

Colab: https://colab.research.google.com/github/as-ideas/ForwardTac...

That is actually very cool!

I personally use my own chat in Slack to take random notes, and of course it saves them, but I also cannot open it as easily.

My colleagues and I where playing around with it for a while in the afternoon and couldn't stop laughing. It's definitely very entertaining :)

We then started making stories with each other's names and then used our Replica AI voices to start speaking everything, which took it to a whole other level!

There are a lot of security features that are being put in place to help us all understand what is real and fake. Of course there is still a lot of work to be done and the technology is very new, but at https://replicastudios.com/ work in watermarking audio, as well as authentication of Replica voices and detection of fake, non-authorised replicas is already in progress.

Facebook, YouTube, Twitter, and the likes, will then be able to let users know what is using real (actual real voices, or the authenticated Replica voice) or fake voices.

What it is doing is not really cloning, but because it was trained on 18k different voices, it actually finds one that is closest to yours, and uses that one. It can do a bit of interpolation to create an embedding which is closer to your own, but only if it is well represented by a mix of other voices. Real voice cloning like at https://replicastudios.com/ can take just a minute or two of audio, and it does a fairly good job, and it is always improving. With more audio you start being able to also play with emotion and styles, which is very cool!