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This Voice Doesn't Exist - Generative Voice AI
We’re deploying our own generative model which lets users design entirely new synthetic voices
Voice Generator - design a voice
Our users take to the platform daily to bring their characters alive - be it for audiobooks, games or fan fiction. We realized our current speaker bank is too small for everybody to find the voices that match their content needs while remaining exclusive to each user. Our solution was to let you design entirely new synthetic voices.

We had an idea for how we'd go about this which came as we unpacked the methods we currently use for speech synthesis and voice cloning. Both processes require a way of encoding the characteristics of a particular voice. Speaker embeddings are what carries this identity - they're a vector representation of a speaker's voice. We realized that we could sample from the distribution of speaker embeddings by training a dedicated model to let us create infinitely many new voices.

Since our users mostly look for specific speech characteristics, we needed to add a degree of control over the process. We expanded our model with conditioning to generate voices based on their characteristics. The model now lets you set certain basic parameters which establish the new voice’s core identity: gender, age, accent, pitch and speaking style. In other words, every time you hit ‘generate’, even if you choose the same base parameters, you get a completely new voice that didn't exist before.

Below are some examples of voices that can be designed this way...
Oooooooh, intriguing!
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BaobabScion wrote: Sat Jan 14, 2023 6:15 pm

wow!
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AI image creator faces UK and US legal challenges

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Getty Images is taking legal action against the makers of an artificial-intelligence image-creation tool.

The agency, which sells the rights to use photographers' and illustrators' images, said Stability AI's Stable Diffusion system had infringed these.

AI image generators "learn" to create images from simple text instructions by analysing human-made pictures, including images found online.

Many artists and photographers say they use their work without permission.

Some artists find image generators a valuable way to express themselves creatively - but many others worry they can convincingly imitate their style and use it to produce images in seconds.

"This thing wants our jobs - it's actively anti-artist," one wrote in a viral tweet.

https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-64285227
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Yuli Ban wrote: Sat Jan 21, 2023 6:56 am
"a blue hat", "screaming"
Nightmare fuel
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wjfox wrote: Thu Jan 19, 2023 7:37 pm AI image creator faces UK and US legal challenges

1 day ago

Getty Images is taking legal action against the makers of an artificial-intelligence image-creation tool.

The agency, which sells the rights to use photographers' and illustrators' images, said Stability AI's Stable Diffusion system had infringed these.

AI image generators "learn" to create images from simple text instructions by analysing human-made pictures, including images found online.

Many artists and photographers say they use their work without permission.

Some artists find image generators a valuable way to express themselves creatively - but many others worry they can convincingly imitate their style and use it to produce images in seconds.

"This thing wants our jobs - it's actively anti-artist," one wrote in a viral tweet.

https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-64285227
the thing I find hard to grasp is how there are tech people with relatively big names and decent expertise who somehow think there is a case for art theft and use public platforms to stir opposition toward AI art.

LIke come on, I expected better from tech literate folks.
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