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You won't thank me for this...

I don't understand what I'm supposed to be listening for. It sounds like a normal, NPR-style interview about some technical topic. Are you saying the conversational voices I'm hearing are AI-generated, or am I supposed to be focusing on the topic being discussed, which doesn't seem to have anything to do with radio? Clarify, please. (I only listened to about 90 seconds. If I needed to hear the whole thing to get the point, I apologize.)
 
You are hearing voices synthesized from text.
The system can be programmed and trained to use any voice of anyone, living or deceased.
It won't be useful for every application. But will affect voice artists, people who track shows, narrate and read advertising blurbs will be seeing diminished futures.

LCG
 
L Chanon Gade said:
You are hearing voices synthesized from text.
The system can be programmed and trained to use any voice of anyone, living or deceased.
It won't be useful for every application. But will affect voice artists, people who track shows, narrate and read advertising blurbs will be seeing diminished futures.

LCG
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This is why not only newspapers but performing artists are fighting the adoption of this both in the courts and in Congress. The male voice very much sounds like someone who recently retired from NPR whose name I can't recall now.
 
ted chittenden said:
This is why not only newspapers but performing artists are fighting the adoption of this both in the courts and in Congress. The male voice very much sounds like someone who recently retired from NPR whose name I can't recall now.
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The entertainment industry in particular is strenously objecting (and threatening legal action) over the use of actors' likenesses and voices in AI.

They even (logically, in my view) object to AI being used to create extras in TV and movies. Having gotten a side income for a few years back in the early 1990s for extra work, I agree with them.
 
It's still fake sounding. :)

Since it will never be possible to ban AI multimedia (see the success banning MP3s and warez), labeling seems the only viable solution. If we can have strict ingredients disclosure requirements and country of origin laws for foods, beverages, and supplements, and if we can require ratings for television and film productions, and even surgeon general warnings for tobacco, I don't see why the same can't be required of multimedia generated by AI.

Though I can see it already. People who clip "the following was made with artificial intelligence" disclaimers off tomorrow's AI videos will be labeled the new mattress tag vandals.
 
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The funny part to me is how some folks are so focused on AI in radio, and are completely oblivious to the fact that it's everywhere. Even in the music that's being played on radio. Here's an article about how the music industry is using AI to influence songwriting and other aspects of the creative process.

barrettmedia.com

From Artists to Algorithms: How Gen Z’s Listening Habits Are Accelerating AI in Music

As AI models continue improving at a rapid rate, so does their ability to reimagine music in the style of proven hits writes Gunz.
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To me, the effect on radio is minor compared to this.
 


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