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Comment by yieldcrv

1 day ago

Its so crazy to me how prevalent bad AI voices are, when local models can do such good AI voices

Very few people explore the options they have and tend to stick with the first thing that works.

Arguably, no AI voice should sound like a human voice:

https://youtu.be/M-IVVJkZnuo?t=236

  • uninspired

    so one of my interests is reducing the payload size for video games

    the vast majority of the image sizes have been audio recordings, and its been that way in different qualities for the last two decades. this is still the case as more varied and comprehensive audio is pursued by studios at unfathomable expense and still failing to cross a bar of realism

    good voice models are just a few gigabytes in comparison and can supplant all of that, and be run locally at this point. Future ubiquitous hardware configurations in consumer devices will make inference dedicated and computationally cheaper and faster

    although AAA studios are hamstrung and will be deeply unpopular if they stopped booking voice actors

    everyone else who would have never had the capital for voice actors will just use this and have richer experiences until they themselves are AAA studios from the market buying their rich experiences

    this will vastly supplant the assumed and uninspired “tricking humans” use case from that video. once it crosses a threshold of ease, the applications will expand

    • > this will vastly supplant the assumed and uninspired “tricking humans” use case

      No que por los dos?

      Don’t worry, we will be able to destroy careers and scam people at the same time. We don’t have to pick and choose!

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