Creates hyper-realistic voice clones from just 3 seconds of audio

anyvoice.net

41 points

blacktechnology

13 hours ago


37 comments

delgaudm 6 hours ago

Hey there /u/blacktechnology, could you email me a few seconds of your voice so I can upload it to this site and see how the cloning goes? I'd love to see what I could do with a copy of your voice. Kthxbye.

esperent 8 hours ago

We've been advertising to get someone to take over the lease on a commercial building. Surprisingly, we've had several of what seem like very obvious scam attempts - people stringing us along, not trying to bargain (we are in a haggling country, people always try to bargain), asking us to wait unreasonable amounts of time, and finally when pressed breaking down into logical inconsistencies. So, not even good scam attempts.

I was wondering, what's the point? I mean, it's a building. You pay money, you sign the lease (in person), you get the use of the building. No money, no building. Where's the scam opportunity?

The only thing I can think of is that they're trying to get enough data and personal info to clone our voices and use that to try and gain access to bank accounts or to scam our relatives. Even if I'm wrong in this case, this seems like a major new vulnerability in society. I mean, if someone who sounded (and with video AI, perhaps even looked) exactly like me called up my mother and pretended I'd been violently robbed or had an accident, she'd transfer money in a heartbeat.

I'm considering that I should set up some kind of code system with my family for this. As in, if I ever end up in a situation where I need help, I'll use a particular code phrase. If I don't know it, assume it's an AI clone.

  • 0x20cowboy 8 hours ago

    > I'm considering that I should set up some kind of code system with my family for this. As in, if I ever end up in a situation where I need help, I'll use a particular code phrase.

    You absolutely should. And include something for videos (like FaceTime calls). Especially if these members of your family are boomers+

    • esperent 5 hours ago

      Have you done it yourself? What did you use, a phrase or code, something like that?

0_____0 2 hours ago

I'm surprised you were able to repost this so quickly.

To reiterate, among my friends, if you use a tool like this to clone my voice for any reason, you are dead to me.

ge96 10 hours ago

3 seconds? That's crazy

"Huuhhhhhhhhhhh"

I wonder what their "fox jump" sentence is

  • mk_stjames 9 hours ago

    A "Panphonic Poem" is what may do well here. As in...

      The pleasure of Shawn’s company
      Is what I most enjoy.
      He put a tack on Ms. Yancey’s chair
      When she called him a horrible boy.
      At the end of the month he was flinging two kittens
      Across the width of the room.
      I count on his schemes to show me a way now
      Of getting away from my gloom.
    
    As discussed here:

    https://literalminded.wordpress.com/2006/05/05/a-panphonic-p...

    And recited very famously, in part and slightly modified, here:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CgX4uJSj00Y

  • sailfast 10 hours ago

    Default for me was: “What a beautiful day it is today, with bright sunshine and gentle breeze. Let's talk about the future of artificial intelligence.”

    That said, I'm not going to be submitting a sample because [reasons]

croemer 9 hours ago

Getting error: Failed to generate voice

  • HeatrayEnjoyer 9 hours ago

    I am hitting this error as well. I was additionally unable to create an account. Seems beta?

    • blacktechnology 8 hours ago

      fixed

      • windsignaling 7 minutes ago

        Still getting the same error I was (and the same error mentioned by parent commenter) when this was first posted.

      • croemer 8 hours ago

        No, still doesn't work. Progress bar now stuck at 95% for dozens of seconds after initial progress to 95% takes only 5 seconds. Broken.

bugglebeetle 10 hours ago

Sure, just let me submit my voice for cloning to a closed sourced, online service of unknown provenance. What could ever go wrong?

  • dvh 10 hours ago

    That's why you submit politician's voice instead

    • dunham 8 hours ago

      It would be fun to have a clone of Majel Barrett's voice for something like Siri or Alexa.

    • HanClinto 10 hours ago

      Yeah, but they have you read a specific text, so not as much of an option if you use the primary demo.

      Seems like a heck of a nice way to gather a training set! :)

      • unsnap_biceps 10 hours ago

        The "upload audio" feature doesn't require any specific text.

      • lubujackson 9 hours ago

        Cue reference to "Sneakers"...

croemer 8 hours ago

The title is editorialized, it should be something like: "Anyvoice - AI Voice Cloning"

superkuh 10 hours ago

I submitted an 8 second clip of speech and the resulting synthesized speech did not sound like the same voice. Too bad.

  • infogulch 10 hours ago

    I hope you have a nice voice, I'll be listening to it try to sell me an extended car warranty for the next 3 months.

krainboltgreene 10 hours ago

Getting a 500 from the HTTP API and also there's an `debugger` in the javascript.

croemer 8 hours ago

This is almost definitely against GDPR, there's no indication whatsoever of which legal entity is holding the data and how long it is stored on which servers where.

clueless 9 hours ago

anybody try this and have a good result?

gamblor956 9 hours ago

This was a great way for them to collect a lot of free voice data to train their model.

  • inerte 8 hours ago

    Every time there's a voice recognition post here someone comments about acquiring data. Why is this method better than having access to all of the video and podcasts sites on the internet?

    • rahimnathwani 8 hours ago

      You can get people to utter the same sentence.

      • gamblor956 7 hours ago

        Righto. Everyone is saying the same thing so it's the cleanest data set you can get.

xqcgrek2 9 hours ago

Has anyone tried multiple iterations? That is, upload a real voice, get its synthesized version, upload synthesized version 1 to get synthesized version 2, rinse and repeat...

  • abeppu 9 hours ago

    Perhaps Alvin Lucifer reading his "I am sitting in a room" text would be ideal.

mxuribe 10 hours ago

Immediately, i thought that cybersecurity is now ruined for the distant future. Imagine if you will, a starship captain ready with a plot to overcome the evil plaguing their crew...and all they need to do is over-ride the starship computer's safety controls with the captain';s own voice override authorization...but, alas, early in 2025 a tech company developed the means by which said evil entity could re-override the captain's voice auth....and block the captain's plan...thereby dooming the entire crew of the starship.

This is why we can not have nice things; not now nor in the far off future! All of our uniqueness will be more easily duplicated. Thankfully, i won';t upload any of my voice recordings, and i will continue to walk around in my faraday cage suit. /s

  • montag 9 hours ago

    Yep, this is a real Star Trek TNG episode, S4 E3 “Brothers”

    • mxuribe 6 hours ago

      Lol, yep, good one!