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Cake day: July 5th, 2023
  • damnthefilibuster@lemmy.worldtoAsk Lemmy@lemmy.world•Can a device offer voice cloning funcionality that allows you to load any audio file from the device for cloning, as opposed to recording yourself reading sentences, if disclaimers are implemented?English
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    3 days ago

    Yes, but…

    The reason why iOS asks you to read specific things out loud is because of a thing called alignment - basically, it needs to map exactly sounds to exact phonemes. So if it’s making you say “apple”, it’s recording how you say “ae”, “puh”, and “l”.

    When you expect it to take any random file, it needs to know specific things like, what’s the text, what is the time frame, when did the speaker speak in a normal voice vs a higher pitch or speed voice. Taking all of this information and created a voice is called “forced alignment” and that’s a field that’s well studied but not implemented on mobile phones as yet.

    An alternative for you, if you want, say, Snoop Dog to be your Siri voice, is to actually use an AI generated Snoop Dog voice to say all the things that the Personal Voice feature expects and just play them out loud from your computer when setting up Personal voice. This assumes you use one of the many paid Snoop Dog AI voice companies out there.

    Another way to get the voice you want is to just take a recording of someone, write the text of what they said and then feed it to a tool like the Gentle Forced Aligner - https://github.com/strob/gentle

    This will give you enough material to then take it to AWS or Microsoft’s AI voice creator tools to create an AI voice. Then you can use that AI voice to say the same things that iOS Personal Voice wants you to say and again, play the correct recording when activating Personal Voice.

    All of this assumes that is your end goal - Snoop Dogg as your Siri. Anything else, please let me know and I’ll help you with what you’re trying to achieve.

  • damnthefilibuster@lemmy.worldtoPrivacy@lemmy.ml•Verify your ID to protect the kidsEnglish
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    3 days ago

    What’s coordinated about it is that it can’t possibly be so universal that people believe this is a good thing and it “saves the children”. I do believe this is good and even I can’t see a clear reason for why so many governments would suddenly be supporting it. Australia, who first implemented it at a national scale, has not yet proven the benefits of it.

    But what you best believe is that there are lobbying groups backed by social media giants evil enough <cough>Zuckerberg<cough> that they would be throwing money at politicians across the western world to implement this.

    This is not a “leak user’s ID” thing. That’s a byproduct of implementing this in a terrible way. This is a “social media giants don’t want the responsibility of what they’ve done to the generation of children they have mentally ruined but do want even more data and control” thing.

    Think about this - Facebook has had a policy themselves since the beginning that under-13s are not allowed on their platform. Yet, as recently revealed in court documents from a case in California, Zuck himself pushed his engineering to create the platform to be more aggressively addictive towards under-13s. Why would he do that? Why not use all their AI chops to discover who the under-13s are and kick them off the platform? I imagine it would be fairly easy for them to do so.

    But would it be profitable? No.

    This age-gate is a two pronged approach - Facebook gets to steal even more data about you, and eventually gets to absolve themselves of the responsibility of destroying mental health in teens, because, “hey, it’s age-gated now!”