[HN Gopher] Creates hyper-realistic voice clones from just 3 sec...
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       Creates hyper-realistic voice clones from just 3 seconds of audio
        
       Author : blacktechnology
       Score  : 21 points
       Date   : 2025-01-10 18:16 UTC (4 hours ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (anyvoice.net)
 (TXT) w3m dump (anyvoice.net)
        
       | ge96 wrote:
       | 3 seconds? That's crazy
       | 
       | "Huuhhhhhhhhhhh"
       | 
       | I wonder what their "fox jump" sentence is
        
         | sailfast wrote:
         | Default for me was: "What a beautiful day it is today, with
         | bright sunshine and gentle breeze. Let's talk about the future
         | of artificial intelligence."
         | 
         | That said, I'm not going to be submitting a sample because
         | [reasons]
        
         | mk_stjames wrote:
         | A "Panphonic Poem" is what may do well here. As in...
         | The pleasure of Shawn's company       Is what I most enjoy.
         | He put a tack on Ms. Yancey's chair       When she called him a
         | horrible boy.       At the end of the month he was flinging two
         | kittens       Across the width of the room.       I count on
         | his schemes to show me a way now       Of getting away from my
         | gloom.
         | 
         | As discussed here:
         | 
         | https://literalminded.wordpress.com/2006/05/05/a-panphonic-p...
         | 
         | And recited very famously, in part and slightly modified, here:
         | 
         | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CgX4uJSj00Y
        
       | bugglebeetle wrote:
       | Sure, just let me submit my voice for cloning to a closed
       | sourced, online service of unknown provenance. What could ever go
       | wrong?
        
         | dvh wrote:
         | That's why you submit politician's voice instead
        
           | HanClinto wrote:
           | Yeah, but they have you read a specific text, so not as much
           | of an option if you use the primary demo.
           | 
           | Seems like a heck of a nice way to gather a training set! :)
        
             | unsnap_biceps wrote:
             | The "upload audio" feature doesn't require any specific
             | text.
        
             | lubujackson wrote:
             | Cue reference to "Sneakers"...
        
       | superkuh wrote:
       | I submitted an 8 second clip of speech and the resulting
       | synthesized speech did not sound like the same voice. Too bad.
        
         | infogulch wrote:
         | I hope you have a nice voice, I'll be listening to it try to
         | sell me an extended car warranty for the next 3 months.
        
       | xnx wrote:
       | What model is this using? I've had good results with e2-ft-tts
       | running locally via Pinokio. You can also run it online for free
       | https://huggingface.co/spaces/mrfakename/E2-F5-TTS
        
       | krainboltgreene wrote:
       | Getting a 500 from the HTTP API and also there's an `debugger` in
       | the javascript.
        
       | mxuribe wrote:
       | Immediately, i thought that cybersecurity is now ruined for the
       | distant future. Imagine if you will, a starship captain ready
       | with a plot to overcome the evil plaguing their crew...and all
       | they need to do is over-ride the starship computer's safety
       | controls with the captain';s own voice override
       | authorization...but, alas, early in 2025 a tech company developed
       | the means by which said evil entity could re-override the
       | captain's voice auth....and block the captain's plan...thereby
       | dooming the entire crew of the starship.
       | 
       | This is why we can not have nice things; not now nor in the far
       | off future! All of our uniqueness will be more easily duplicated.
       | Thankfully, i won';t upload any of my voice recordings, and i
       | will continue to walk around in my faraday cage suit. /s
        
         | montag wrote:
         | Yep, this is a real Star Trek TNG episode, S4 E3 "Brothers"
        
       | croemer wrote:
       | Getting error: Failed to generate voice
        
         | HeatrayEnjoyer wrote:
         | I am hitting this error as well. I was additionally unable to
         | create an account. Seems beta?
        
       | xqcgrek2 wrote:
       | Has anyone tried multiple iterations? That is, upload a real
       | voice, get its synthesized version, upload synthesized version 1
       | to get synthesized version 2, rinse and repeat...
        
         | abeppu wrote:
         | Perhaps Alvin Lucifer reading his "I am sitting in a room" text
         | would be ideal.
        
       | clueless wrote:
       | anybody try this and have a good result?
        
       | gamblor956 wrote:
       | This was a great way for them to collect a lot of free voice data
       | to train their model.
        
         | inerte wrote:
         | Every time there's a voice recognition post here someone
         | comments about acquiring data. Why is this method better than
         | having access to all of the video and podcasts sites on the
         | internet?
        
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