<story><title>Voice clone of Anthony Bourdain prompts synthetic media ethics questions</title><url>https://techpolicy.press/voice-clone-of-anthony-bourdain-prompts-synthetic-media-ethics-questions/?mc_cid=f76836fe27&amp;mc_eid=4336df8131</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>pankajdoharey</author><text>It would be interesting to see if recreating songs is possible, if so i would like to hear the voice of Jim morrison and Curt Cobain.</text></item><item><author>yohannparis</author><text>As a viewer of the documentary, I will love that effect instead of a bland voice-over.
But a note should be added on the screen that the voice is AI-generated. Like when they say a war video is a reenactment.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>genewitch</author><text>I have a machine with two GPUs and a frozen OS with a tensorflow python app that clones voices, and I&amp;#x27;d say the quality passes if you run it through a phone bandpass filter.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;ve had an idea to use propellerhead recycle to chop the output cloned voice into syllables, and then &amp;quot;play&amp;quot; the chopped parts in rhythm, through autotune.&lt;p&gt;The issue is you get Eifel 65 sounding autotune if your base vocals are monotonic or way off key. The only way I can think of fixing this is to use something like audacity&amp;#x27;s pitch changer that doesn&amp;#x27;t affect the speed of the sample - rough the lyrical tones in with audacity&amp;#x2F;recycle, then autotune it where it needs to go.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;d like to say I&amp;#x27;m too busy to get this workflow going, but mostly I&amp;#x27;m lazy and someone else will do it first - and better - I can&amp;#x27;t improve the AI cloning software.</text></comment>
<story><title>Voice clone of Anthony Bourdain prompts synthetic media ethics questions</title><url>https://techpolicy.press/voice-clone-of-anthony-bourdain-prompts-synthetic-media-ethics-questions/?mc_cid=f76836fe27&amp;mc_eid=4336df8131</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>pankajdoharey</author><text>It would be interesting to see if recreating songs is possible, if so i would like to hear the voice of Jim morrison and Curt Cobain.</text></item><item><author>yohannparis</author><text>As a viewer of the documentary, I will love that effect instead of a bland voice-over.
But a note should be added on the screen that the voice is AI-generated. Like when they say a war video is a reenactment.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>caseyohara</author><text>AI-generated Nirvana song: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.youtube.com&amp;#x2F;watch?v=GogY7RQFFus&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.youtube.com&amp;#x2F;watch?v=GogY7RQFFus&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>