Is it just me or does the voiceover in the video on this page seem low quality? It sounds like was recorded in a real low bit rate. I would expect much more from a company claiming to focus on high quality synthetic voice. I also hate those "AI", "Data lake" type videos, but the voice thing is an immediate distrust factor for me.
I can’t see the benefit of this outweighing the potential future catastrophes it will create, not to mention the future inherent distrust of audio we will develop.
Imo the real reason this company exists is asserting that deepfakes have economic value and suing unauthorized creators of same. You're not going to get a deepfakes of Beyonce advertising a local car lot at any price. But you can bet she wants to protect her likeness (including her voice, and digital recreations of it) and will give a company the authority to go after anyone using it.
Curious now ... what if doppelgänger takes issue with, for example, Beyonce and counters that they are the original and she is infringing on their voice, digital recreations and likeness
This is going to be such a step change in media production, especially combined with video. As with any tech there will be negative use; but in 5 years I think a very high percentage of online video/audio will be synthetic because it's just so much easier. Just like every photo is edited to some degree and most videos use a green screen.
I entered "Hello, this is a test of the emergency broadcast system. This is only a test." and ran through the 5 voices they have highlighted in the demo about halfway down their page on https://www.veritone.com/applications/marvelai
It sounds, to me, like the voice synthesisers that come on the OS, and I can't tell any actual difference? All of them sound fake and generated and if I focus on it to think about why, the parts that always seem wrong to me are the space connecting the words, word to word there seems to be no connection in the inflection, such that there is no consistent flow in it. Maybe I don't have the right words to describe this.
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It sounds, to me, like the voice synthesisers that come on the OS, and I can't tell any actual difference? All of them sound fake and generated and if I focus on it to think about why, the parts that always seem wrong to me are the space connecting the words, word to word there seems to be no connection in the inflection, such that there is no consistent flow in it. Maybe I don't have the right words to describe this.