Epic win

I know exactly that feeling as I’ve had it a couple of times before with records. One of my favourite LPs (water messages on dessert sand by Roberto Musci & Giovanni Venosta) usually goes for comfortably above £100 and I found my copy in the £2 bin of a local record shop. I felt like I was shoplifting.

https://google.github.io/tacotron/publications/speaker_adaptation/

That hit me right in the University feels. Gotta take a deeper look at that at home.

Is this like deepfake but for audio? Should prob be in the epic fail thread as well...

Amazing and also, deep fakes about to get deeper. I can't help but feel we're fucked.

#npf

Better/worse than deepfake. Deepfake needs an existing video to adapt, as far as I know. This just needs a short snippet of audio to then be able to construct something totally false from scratch. I'm sure their examples are carefully chosen and it is not yet capable of spoofing any combination of syllables, but it is still pretty amazing/terrifying.

The optimist in me goes down the route of voice synthesizers for people who have lost the ability to speak. If there was a short recording of them when they could still speak, then they could have more a more recognisable sound from their device, giving them back a sense of identity that they had lost.

The optimist in me goes down the route of voice synthesizers for people who have lost the ability to speak.

You could create an audiobook from just a scan or digital copy (that doesn't sound like it's read by a robot). Text-to-speech of news articles, etc. Good news for blind people.

For anyone who listens to Joe Rogan, someone did a JRE deepfake audio a couple of months ago:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DWK_iYBl8cA

We did something like this at work a few years back... The software gets you to speak X number of words and then synthesises a complete set of phonetics from that... Type away and the software talks back at you in that exact voice/accent... It was pretty amazing... Software got pulled a couple of months after release, I assume one of the big tech companies snapped it up...

I saw some BBC program a while ago where they used somebody with a similar accent to the person who lost their speech. Seeing how impactful that was for that person is what made me think this could be super powerful.

Spent all week in New York gazing wistfully at souvenir NY baseball caps going for as much as $20-$30. Riding down Lewisham high street in the rain today I saw one lying in the road for FREE! Wet but otherwise in amazing condition. Needless to say I'm thrilled.

You're familiar with http://idealcapco.com/index.shtml ?
Really nice quality stuff.

A sad indictment on me, possibly, but the number one use I can see for deep fake audio would be to create answer phone messages to support fraud - for e.g. the $27M that Nikkei just lost (30th Oct) to a Business Email Compromise (AKA, Phishing) attack.

Providing an out of band/voice message in play can be extremely effective at making the email credible.

I'm going to make a load of JOI recordings of people on here for personal reasons.

Could you make the Golf Club thread posts read themselves in my voice?

I must learn @William. 's peculiar skill for obtaining specific items, simply through wistful gazing

it's a gift.
From me, to myself.

https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2019/nov/21/strictly-come-dancings-first-same-sex-routine-sparks-complaints

Over 200 twats offended

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That's so cool

You’d be eating pumpkin soup for months

It'd be a bit of a squash to get in one of those.

You could try a marrow boat.

Man overgourd !

I butternut join in, but it's irresistible!!