Artificial voices generated from text. The future of video narration?

[kye]

These folks are using generative fill to create matt environments for videos...  Interesting stuff.

 

[IronFilm]

On 7/2/2023 at 3:54 AM, kye said:

These folks are using generative fill to create matt environments for videos...  Interesting stuff.

Saw that this morning, shared it with a mate. 

Certainly is an interesting development/approach when you think about. 

How many adverts out there only a few seconds long per scene? (or even shorter!) 

If the talent are not doing massive movements, you immediately make location scouting & art department waaaaay easier! And you can do far more epic videos. 

[kye]

6 hours ago, IronFilm said:

Saw that this morning, shared it with a mate. 

Certainly is an interesting development/approach when you think about. 

How many adverts out there only a few seconds long per scene? (or even shorter!) 

If the talent are not doing massive movements, you immediately make location scouting & art department waaaaay easier! And you can do far more epic videos. 

Yeah, it's the first example I've seen that's ready for genuine pro work right now.

[D Verco]

anyone found any voice synthesis that's any good?

[kye]

On 7/10/2023 at 10:19 AM, D Verco said:

anyone found any voice synthesis that's any good?

This one is incredible.

I'm not sure how available it is for users though - I saw this video posted by the developer who is sharing their work on the liftgammagain forums just this morning.

[kye]

Also, paranoia seems to be setting in.....

https://petapixel.com/2023/07/11/real-photo-disqualified-from-photography-contest-for-being-ai/

The judges looked at the metadata (it was taken with an iPhone) but couldn't work out if it was real or not, so disqualified the image because they weren't sure.

[IronFilm]

1 hour ago, kye said:

This one is incredible.

Hello end times... 

[Emanuel]

 

[fuzzynormal]

Regarding voice AI.  Hoo boy.  As a documentarian, this one can affect me a lot.  A lot of ills can be smoothed over with AI audio.  But ... at the end of the day it's an ethical choice how it's employed. 

I've decided to ONLY use it to salvage VERBATIM lines from interviews and field audio that is distorted beyond comfort.  Like, wind noise, clothes rustling.  And then it's a last ditch option after audio EQ/Rx tweaking.  Best thing to do is just not 'f up the field production to begin with.

Beyond that, if AI is used as a production short cut to solve a storytelling/crafting failure as a filmmaker -- I now consider AI use untenable for me.  It's simply on the wrong side of things morally when it comes to making honest doc films. 

Sadly, I fear that's now a contrarian opinion; an "old-fart" opinion.  No one probably really gives a shit anymore about these sorts of "cheats" 'cept me.