#ai voices

[animentality]

The only creative thing that ai should be used for is making it sound like Joe Biden and Donald Trump and Barack Obama regularly play Call of Duty Overwatch Splatoon Minecraft together.

That's about it.

#ai art #ai writing #ai voices #wga strike #sag strike

[haroldosaur]

Reblog if you're absolutely fuckin' DONE with ai-generated media

#just saw openai's newest video-generating toy and #man.............. #ai art #ai videos #ai voices #anti ai #anti ai art

[hatboyproject]

I have to consider my next moves very carefully, as Jennifer Hale has come out swinging on this issue and I really think there's room for it to be understood better. Currently, my intent is to continue development, unless and until I receive a specific request to stop. What I hope is that my perspective on this issue can be included and considered in the conversation going forward, and maybe affect some hearts and minds. What I now hope for is for my use case to be seen and heard, and then for me to be tactically ignored by VAs. To come out and say my project is OK would weaken their very necesssary arguments they're trying to make towards other avenues. So, I understand that even if any one of them thought my work specifically was fine, I'll never know that, now. All I can hope for is to be understood.

Last Valentine's Day I was showcasing the romance scene. This year, I'm trying desperately to justify why my romance mod, for one of the most romantic games ever, should be allowed to exist. Feelsbadman

#hatboyproject daily #ai voices #shoker mod #shoker #hatboyproject #mass effect mods #mass effect modding #mass effect romance #jeff joker moreau #Youtube

[thisisnothowidie]

Ik that probably none of you care and this is extremely self indulgent but i tried out that ai thing and even though its all over the place- well anyway sorry if im annying you by tagging but I wanted to share

@weird-an @stranger-rants @raven2008 @kiraixi @ihni

#billy hargrove #billy hargrove/eddie munson #billy hargrove/steve harrington #Eddie munson/Billy Hargrove/ Steve Harrington #Ai voices #I'm sorry the tone and stuff is all over #and Billy's voice isn't the best #But I thought this was fun #harringroveson #harringrove #mungrove

[blackat-t7t]

Something that I worry might get lost in the AI discourse, specifically around AI voices:

If you as an individual have purchased an ebook and are using the text-to-speech function built into your ereader for accessibility-- this is not an AI audiobook.

It's more like asking a friend to read a book you own out loud to you. You bought a book, not an audiobook, and you're using it in a way that people have always used books. Everyone involved in the creation of the book got paid, and no one lost their job. You don't need to feel guilty for using an accessibility feature.

It's very different from a publisher choosing not to put a job on the market because they decided to have a machine do the job instead. And very different from a producer stealing a real voice actor's voice by recording them and making a custom robot voice** from it, thereby denying them future jobs.

You aren't "supporting AI in stealing jobs". Individual choices in how you use what you buy are entirely different from how an industry as a whole values or devalues the work of human beings.

**The same technology is also used by people with degenerative conditions that will eventually stop them from talking, so the communication devices they use then will "have their voice." These "AI voices" are not taking jobs and should be respected.

#accessibility #anti ai #ai voices #text to speech

[stra-tek]

A sadly unfinished Star Trek fan film from all the way back in 2014, using CG graphics and AI voices for the TOS cast.

#star trek #ai generated #star trek the animated series #star trek fan film #fan film #ai voices #Youtube

[sheepishvagabond-shinigamijack]

Not a request, just a curious question - which AI do you use to make voices? I’ve always wanted to do something similar but I’ve never known the best software to use. Don’t worry, I won’t be stealing your thunder, this is purely for my own personal use 😆 Also, apologies if you’ve already answered this question!

I use ELVENLABS! It's very easy to use which is a godsend for my smol brain.

No worries about thunder stealing! I'm always just as hyped to hear what other people make! I shared a post about how I do it, but it needs a good overhaul since I've learnt a ton of tricks. Maybe I'll post an updated version soon! Anyhoo- HERE is a dropbox link to all the audio files I use, too! You can plug these right in and start making stuff! I've been meaning to share the link for a while so I'm taking this as a good sign to do so!

Good luck! Hope you have as much fun as I do! <3

(Oh and if y'all use it, consider taggin the fuck out of me maybe so I can share it?!)

#AI Voices #Death Note

[knackeredforever]

Ok this is probably gonna be a long rant but it’s for things that I’ve thought about for a while when it comes to the “ai” craze.

I’m ranting about what I’m ranting about is “ai” or what this hellhole of the modern internet has attributed the title “ai” to a fucked up form of machine learning that steals / plagiarises the work of others without their consent. For the rest of this rant I’ll be referring to “ai” as machine learning because that’s what it actually is algorithms programmed to copy others work.

The name “ai” is purely used to make the machine learning software sound more marketable and cool, artificial intelligence as most people envision it still doesn’t exist machine learning is basically constantly iterating program learning by being given fitness values that the outcome with the highest fitness value is used as a baseline for all the other runs to learn from. The machine learning does this by constantly taking over peoples work trying to use this work to guess what a prompt entered by a user wants in response and that’s why machine learning software would ask users whether they were satisfied by the outcome of the machine learning (I’ve used machine learning alot so I’ll shorten it to ml from now on) that will be the fitness value if the user enters yes that will give that ml outcome a higher fitness value therefore further uses of the ml software for that prompt of similar will give results similar to the high fitness value outcome.

One annoying outcome of the machine learning boom is because of its given name of “ai” when ai is used in the context outside of machine learning people now immediately assume it’s machine learning one example is video games which have used the term ai for decades e.g. enemy ai but now using that term makes people think it’s using machine learning even when it isn’t. One example I can think of was dragons dogma 2(I think? ) where developers were discussing the games new ai systems which journalists immediately assumed meant machine learning despite the fact it didn’t.

Another form of machine learning is the so called “ai voices” which is just taking audio sampling of people’s voices copying it and using it to try to say things those people didn’t originally say. It’s genuinely terrifying especially for people like voice actors who many have spoken out of the use of “ai voices” to replicate their voices who now have to worry about people using their voices to say offensive shit and people thinking it’s the original voice actor that said it. Another element that personally pisses me off is voice acting at an unprofessional level basically for shitposts to give an example my YouTube feed used to be filled with shitposts of people doing impressions of characters or performing the glorious task known as sentence mixing taking already existing audio and manually editing it to create new audio this is very different from machine learning as in machine learning new audio is created by trying to simulate copied audio samples from someone else. While in sentence mixing no new audio samples are created the audio is just edited to sound like something else is being said.

But now my YouTube feed when it comes to shitposts of this variety are usually filled with ai voice shitposts usually made by very small YouTubers but bigger ones also sometimes use it. This pisses me of for various reasons such that a lot of these videos that would have previously contained admirable amateur voice acting or sentence mixing now have bad incredibly flat machine learning voice acting and if your not willing to put the effort in the voice itself then I don’t think the video is probably gonna be very funny.

But another element that saddens me when thinking about this is the fact alot of people probably got into voice acting through doing shitposts online so the fact alot of people aren’t even trying to do these voices and that means they could have missed out on the realisation that they really liked voice acting and deciding they wanted to pursue it further.

“Ai”’s are machine learning plagiarism algorithm that are now forcing people online to be part of their sample size whether they want to or not social media’s are stealing artists work to replicate it worse for lazy people even fucking mspaint is doing this now MS FUCKING PAINT.

I’m sure there might be some good uses for this type of software but so far the main people who use and advocate it are corporations trying to get out of paying people for their art and lazy people.

What proves to me on a personal level that machine learning is used for nothing more than laziness is that in my computer science class we are almost finished with a long individual project and it’s one that I mostly really enjoyed working on my own game which was the good part. The worst part was every fucking computer science lesson where I had to hear other students talk about ways they could use machine learning to do their work for them so that they don’t have to do anything themselves no one cared about actually making something, something they wanted to make. All they wanted was something easy and I have known a lot of these people for years I’ve overheard their conversations most of them do business studies and when it comes to talking about their passions when I overhear them it’s always what job will get them the most money what can they do to make girls to be with them for their money. It won’t surprise you that most of these guys watch videos in computer science lessons on ways to be alpha males. (Unfortunately my computer science class is only guys) so I know machine learning isn’t a tool to help artists it’s a tool for people to bypass the art creation process due to laziness.

Now a second personal anecdote so about a month ago I went to a university open day with my dad for a game development course as that’s the career I want to pursue without getting into personal details my dad doesn’t exactly want me to go to this uni or course he debated me on several points about wanting to go to this uni and I argued why I wanted to go their but then he said that he had problems with me wanting to do game development because “the entire industry will mostly be ai generated in a few years anyway” my dads job has nothing to do with game development in the slightest he made this assumption probably because of news stories saying how machine learning was the future of all industries and that all jobs in those fields will disappear.

And honestly I’ve never heard a statement in my life that made me want to pursue game development more.

I want to pursue game development to create games by my own hands to have something that is truly my own not for money but for the love of creating games I wanna make.

I refuse to let all art become nothing more than having stolen slop fired back at users written inputs because if someone didn’t create it what is the point of art at all.

Art is human expression and machine learning is an attempt to replicate the human expression but it will never win.

That’s why I don’t want to support the use of machine learning online wherever I can because it goes against everything I stand for even if it means criticising something I like for using it as I want to support art not stolen non consensual machine learning.

I’m sorry for the long rant but this is a collection of things that have annoyed me for a while.

#ai #ai art #ai voices #fuck ai voice acting #rant #ai rant #machine learning #artificial intelligence #text post #long rant #long post

[thesoulspulse]

No More Uberduck

Well it was fun while it lasted, but this is probably for the best given all the AI drama still going on that’s been disrupting the livelihood of many talented artists, voice actors, singers, writers, and actors in the film industry. We should definitely support the work of real people as much as we can because sadly, like any tool, technology can always be abused if used the wrong way. Don’t get me wrong I really enjoyed being able to imagine Danny or Vlad saying certain lines of dialogue, however, we should always remember it was the voice actors who played them back in the day that brought these amazing characters to life in the first place.

Without them, none of these characters would exist let alone have a voice. Literally!

So yeah, just a heads up the policy has changed for uberduck which means the fan uploaded character voices are no longer available for public use. You can read that here: https://uberduck.ai/blog/new-voice-hosting-policy Thankfully I don’t have to take down or delete any of the audio clips I’ve already shared on tumblr which means you’re free to check them out for a bit of nostalgia. And on one final note, I think we all probably know who to blame for AI trying to take over the world right now am I right? This whole mess screams Technus!

#uberduck #policy change #voice acting #voice impression #ai voices #just a heads up #technus #danny fenton #danny phantom #david kaufman #vlad masters #vlad plasmius #martin mull #rob paulsen #voice actors

[safewarmbubbly]

My guildmate used the 11.ai voice thing to make Trahearne say this (personally a new short story might be in the works because of this fjfj). This was my favourite of the two he sent.

The cadence is a little off, but ai voices are still a little wonk.

Hope everyone enjoys this slightly cursed content <3

#gw2 #trahearne #ai voices #guild wars 2 #gw2 trahearne #for my trahearne enjoyers #planty husband

[sleepywitchlory]

„Hurt“ - Sebastian Sallow ai song cover Preview (full version in the link)

Original: Hurt - Johnny Cash

#sebastian sallow #hogwartslegacy #harrypotter #hogwartslegacymc #hogwarts #slytherin #wizardingworld #sebastiansallow #ai song cover #ai voices #hurt johnny cash #sebastiansallowsinging #Youtube

[animentality]

#twitter #ai voices #joe biden #donald trump

[xx-damien-devilish-xx]

AI voices have killed shitty utaus made from random characters voices

#I really hate AI voices of characters esp when the voice actor hasn't said if its okay to make onr #AI voices #utau #ai #cursed utaus

[animasola86]

Voice Appreciation Post

I’ve always loved certain voices. Mostly male voices of a certain timbre, I cannot explain their sound exactly, but when I hear these voices, it does something to me, not necessarily in a romantic/sexual way, mind you. I just enjoy them, very much. They are soothing and relaxing and I could listen to these voices forever. They could say the dumbest or most mundane things, but I would still listen to the sound of them.

And it doesn’t even matter what language they are speaking. I’m German, so my first “voice crush” (if you want to call it that) was a popular voice actor we have here (you see, most/all of foreign movies and shows and video games are being dubbed here and that in a very high quality kind of way), who voiced the German version of Ezio Auditore from Assassin’s Creed II or Geralt of Rivia in the Witcher games, etc. (making these characters my all-time favorite videogame characters, btw).

I also enjoy listening to Japanese seiju - which makes it hard sometimes to read the subtitles of my favorite anime/drama, as I only listen (without understanding much) and enjoy. I don’t know what it is about Japanese men, but most of them just sound so good to me.

As for my newest (or oldest) love and obsession and why I’m writing this post to begin with: I also have a knack for British guys. It’s the accent (I’m not an expert on British accents so I couldn’t tell you which dialect it is or from where it hails, except maybe the Scottish accent, but that’s a no-brainer and also a favorite of mine). So I’ve had my voice crushes on, let’s say, Giles from Buffy, or Mr. Sheffield from The Nanny. (Or maybe I always liked older men too? Hmm.)

This also explains my deep obsession with Chamber of Secrets’ Tom Riddle played by Christian Coulson, whose voice is just, so, ugh. (Highly recommend any audio books he has narrated!) I can’t explain it. It just does things to me.

And the same happened when I played Hogwarts Legacy. I became totally obsessed by one particular voice and you might have guessed from the tags. Sebastian Sallow is not only the best character of the whole game, because he is so versatile and conflicted and adorable and whatnot, but his voice... the way his voice actor (Alfie Nugent, you are my absolute hero, btw!) says things, how his voice just vibrates through me, so low at times, the perfect timbre, no matter what situation Sebastian finds himself in, cheeky, flirty, worried, sad, it always sounds so mind-bogglingly good to me.

I find myself listening to his voice lines over and over again (thank you YouTube) and it helps me so much in writing my fanfiction. I love his voice, really, truly love his voice, it gives me all the good vibes love would do (in a completely platonic kind of way). And it’s just a voice.

Now, speaking about voices, I have to address the AI issue. Is it an issue? Well, I do feel bad for voice actors whose voices are (ab)used without their consent, but from a fan perspective it is the best thing that ever happened to this world. (That took a turn, eh?) Having all these creative people of the Hogwarts Legacy fandom create their own voice lines for Sebastian (and other charaters for that matter) is truly such a blessing. Every day I find more and they are all so good and authentic and the way an AI program can mimic these perfect voices is just beyond me.

So thank you, lovely people who have perfected ElevenLabs, and thank you to the original voice actors for providing those voices in the first place. I salute you all. I thank your voices for keeping me sane in these troubling times we live in.

#voice appreciation #voice actors #attracted to voices #hogwarts legacy fandom #hogwarts legacy #sebastian sallow #alfie nugent #elevenlabs #ai voices #voice obsession #wall of text #just me rambling about voices

[a1to-and-scientific-witchery]

i want to share my two cents on AI voices. a story from my perspective.

i am trans and on testosterone. previously, i was a mezzo-soprano cover singer whose voice was beloved by many, but i felt so dysphoric singing like that. when i went on T, i was so happy to sing the way i finally wanted to, but i still had a lingering guilt that i "took away" something people loved. that i won't get that voice back ever again. even if i'm happier now, i cared a lot about my image and how i changed in other people's eyes. because of this guilt, i had recorded an UTAU voicebank before i went on T. and i also thought it was a nice voice too, even if not "mine."

when synthesizer V AI first came out in late 2020, i was so impressed and excited by the tech. it sounded so amazing and promising. as more AI voicebanks released, i dreamed of being behind the voice of an AI voice someday, and i learned a bit about the process behind creating an AI voice.

i realized that based on what i learned, theoretically, it should be possible to gather my old singing samples and make an AI voice based on my pre-T voice. NNSVS seemed like a cool idea, but i was a bit intimidated by the work to put in.

fast forward later when diff-SVC first became a thing -- this is the origin of all the plagiarist, voice actor-disrespecting AI voice copying. although first, it was used within the vocalsynth community to create our own AI voices easily. we were making AIs based on our own voices! much like UTAU. i jumped on it to make an AI voice changer based on my own pre-T voice and i was overwhelmed with joy that this voice was no longer lost to time. that it could be used again! the possibilities were now endless.

later RVC comes along, and i am able to finalize my AI voicebank using this tech! however, i am so extremely dismayed by the spread of this technology to ill-meaning people. the amount of AI voices that ripped off and copied so many celebrities, actors, etc without consent. it was rare to see an AI voice based on one's original character and original voice.

now AI voices as a whole gets such a bad name, understandably so, but i can't help but feel dismayed. hurt, cheated somehow. the same tech i used to revive a voice so important to me -- the voice that helped me grow in my first few years on the internet; a precious voice despite my dysphoric relationship to it... -- that same tech is misused and abused to infringe on other people's boundaries and rights, to where it paints a bad look for me and the purposes i'm using it for. i'm so fucking mad. but i'm slowly rebuilding my relationship towards my old pre-T voice -- and one of my girl alters wants to sing using that voice, especially now that we have the means to...

but i don't want people to think i'm a bad person for using that tech, and i want to express a unique perspective that is almost unheard of...

because of all this, shit that i do that isn't even immoral gets striked. it's harder to train AI voices like this because of crackdowns on that immoral behavior. i got fucking banned from a social media site for using AI ethically??? i get you're trying to regulate shit here but i'm far from the perpetrator. i'm literally only using MY OWN VOICE in AI. fuck off

#text #AI #ai voices #long #sorry. #le sigh

[is-this-just-fantasy]

i/p conflict, ai-generated voices

has anyone been talking about the Bella Hadid deepfake on twitter? Cuz someone should be

Yall got too cozy with ai and now this happens. We've already been warning yall that ai will be used for propaganda against anyone. Hadid is a palestinian woman, and her words are being made up for someone else's benefit

#i/p #ai voices #war propaganda #bella hadid