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Computer (voice) as Host/"Talent"

boombox4 said:
Sort of like a lot of the YT vids that came out right after the Ukraine War started -- there were a lot of YT channels that opened up, military related, all read by AI voices. You could tell it was a computerized voice reading a script.
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There are a lot of pop-up science/tech channels doing that too. Bots create technobabble word salad scripts from news articles and press releases, pull a bunch of related images, and churn them out as YouTube (and probably TikTok) videos to gain ad revenue.

 
Of interest, James Earl Jones has retired from doing the voice of Darth Vader, one of many gigs Jones had over the course of his career that featured his distinctive baritone pipes. He's signed a contract that will allow them to use AI and past recordings so the "voice" of Darth Vader will remain unchanged in the future. It was also explained that for Obi-Wan Kenobi, they'd already used a combination of AI and VO work from Jones when filming:

James Earl Jones Steps Back From Voicing Darth Vader, Signs Off on Using Archived Recordings to Recreate Voice With A.I.​

According to Vanity Fair, the 91-year-old actor has signed off on archival voice recordings being used by young filmmakers, who plan to utilize artificial intelligence synthetic speech technology to recreate Jones’ younger voice from his previous films for future Lucasfilm projects.
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Following the debut of “Obi-Wan Kenobi,” Jones’ family informed Wood that they were pleased with the result of the synthesis between the actor’s voice and Respeecher’s (AI) technical work.
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kfbkfb said:
www.yahoo.com

Capitol Records Severs Ties With A.I. Rapper FN Meka, Apologizes to Black Community for “Insensitivity”

Capitol Music Group on Tuesday said it had “severed ties” with the A.I. rapper FN Meka after facing pushback from activist groups and observers that the virtual rapper was a stereotypical caricature o...
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...facing pushback from activist groups and observers that the virtual rapper was a stereotypical caricature of Black artists.


Kirk Bayne
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Caricature's usually have a foundation in facts. But there is a great difference between "Black artists" and rappers. Rappers should not even be considered musical 'artists'.
 
Kelly A said:
Your parents probably felt the same about Buddy Holly and Sam Sham and The Pharaohs.
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My father was a self taught guitar player and ballad singer. My mom liked church music. I don't remember either one expressing their thoughts about Holly or the Pharaohs. When Grandma visited she always asked my sisters and I to show off our dancing skills to whatever was popular at that time ('50's).

Me? I grew up on Doo-Wop, Be-Bop, Black groups like the Platters and Stylistics, Black singers like Earl Grant and Johnny Mathis, Cat Stevens, the British Invasion groups and their more modern offshoots (through about 1985) like Dire Straits, Led Zep etc. Some of the old classic Country tunes got in there too.
 
landtuna said:
My father was a self taught guitar player and ballad singer. My mom liked church music. I don't remember either one expressing their thoughts about Holly or the Pharaohs. When Grandma visited she always asked my sisters and I to show off our dancing skills to whatever was popular at that time ('50's).
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The point is; the generation prior is always critical of the following generation musical style. And, if you go back and look at many of the threads on this very site; opinions regarding the topic of anything radio, end up boiling down to personal music tastes. Usually, of the past.
 
Kelly A said:
The point is; the generation prior is always critical of the following generation musical style. And, if you go back and look at many of the threads on this very site; opinions regarding the topic of anything radio, end up boiling down to personal music tastes. Usually, of the past.
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100%. All radio discussion forums eventually descend into "I don't like that station because it used to play music I like, and now it plays music I hate or don't understand", and inevitably it's because the poster has aged out of that station's demographic.
 
Phil Harmonic said:
...one of the most powerful things radio can do, is be a companion, to a mass audience...
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That might have been true in the 30's and 40's but it is far away from it now. Most people don't listen to the radio when it provides only background noise.
 
Or maybe people will begin speaking more like computers (some of the McDonalds is this area started using voice recognition at their drive thrus recently, I speak a little slower and try to enunciate the words when I order with their system and it almost always understands what I order).


Kirk Bayne
 
The New Chico said:
The majority of TikTok videos use "AI" generated VO if they need VO at all. At least in certain demos, TikTok is by far the most used platform in the world. It's coming for all of us, folks, and soon.
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Gen-Z are already seeking alternatives to TikTok. Sites like Byte and Snibble are becoming the latest thing. Just as happened with Farsebook and Instagram, in a year or so the only people left on TikTok will be grandma and grandpa.
 
kfbkfb said:
Or maybe people will begin speaking more like computers (some of the McDonalds is this area started using voice recognition at their drive thrus recently, I speak a little slower and try to enunciate the words when I order with their system and it almost always understands what I order).


Kirk Bayne
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Voice recognition is also not AI.
 
landtuna said:
That might have been true in the 30's and 40's but it is far away from it now. Most people don't listen to the radio when it provides only background noise.
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I'd say radio could be considered to some, a companion even back in the 60's-80's. Once things like websites, streaming, and apps started being a thing, attention diverted from traditional radio and TV.
Was standing in line to pick up lunch at Chipotle this past Monday. College age woman was behind me clutching her smartphone going from one TikTok video to another, and another. I don't think she even looked up when ordering. She just called out the ingredients for her burrito.
Among many other things; smartphones are the companions of Millennials and Gen-Z. Not radio. That's just the way it is.
 
kfbkfb said:
Or maybe people will begin speaking more like computers (some of the McDonalds is this area started using voice recognition at their drive thrus recently, I speak a little slower and try to enunciate the words when I order with their system and it almost always understands what I order).


Kirk Bayne
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It'll get better. Designers know that programs like this one must work with typical nuances (patterns, cadences, accents, etc.) of human speech, rather than forcing people to speak like robots or over enunciate in order to be understood by the program.

Hard to know what company or version that McDonald's is using, but those of you who use dictation on smartphones can attest to how well the later offerings work..Dictate a text message and the overwhelming majority of the time it produce accurate texts with proper spelling, complete with punctuation.
 
Kelly A said:
Gen-Z are already seeking alternatives to TikTok. Sites like Byte and Snibble are becoming the latest thing. Just as happened with Farsebook and Instagram, in a year or so the only people left on TikTok will be grandma and grandpa.
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They don't know what TikTok is.
 
Kelly A said:
Gen-Z are already seeking alternatives to TikTok. Sites like Byte and Snibble are becoming the latest thing. Just as happened with Farsebook and Instagram, in a year or so the only people left on TikTok will be grandma and grandpa.
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Back in my day, Byte was a computer magazine -- a prophetic one:

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