[jascii]

I'm having a hard time coming up with a non-nefarious use case for this.

[bovermyer]

I'd get a kick out of having my own blog posts read to me in James Earl Jones's voice.

Or, heck, my own voice. Though it'd be surreal to hear not-me-but-me saying things I've never said.

[woodrowbarlow]

even this is ethically questionable. james earl jones's voice is his livelihood.

[mahmoudfelfel]

We have been seeing some of these genuine use cases: youtube creators, audiobooks, elearning videos, podcasts, commercials, dubbing, and gaming.

[tgv]

BS. That could just be done without imitating someone's voice.

[ksrm]

No-one is going to listen to an audiobook made with this. It's still fundamentally just TTS.

[zanderwohl]

I am toying about with building a virtual puppet software in the style of watchmeforever. I have a number of voices I do for the stage and DnD that I would be willing to train a few models on so I could give my puppets unique voices.

[rockemsockem]

Anything written can be listened to with this tech. Any news article, any short story, a draft of a piece of writing you're working on. There is too much text for human beings to read it all.

[scrollaway]

> There is too much text for human beings to read it all.

so your logic is that all that text should be audio and people will consume more? Because I got news for you, reading is faster than listening.

[vincnetas]

And all AI bots are here to generate even more text. :( We will need to rethink and reevaluate lots of things that we are used to.

[erichocean]

I'm using this kind of technology for temporary voice tracks in animated shorts.

I'd really like something like Img2Img for voices so I can translate a performance to an arbitrary (synthetic) voice.

[nullsense]

Tortoise TTS can do this. You just pass it your example as a conditioning latent.

[atentaten]

Generating audio for an audio book: If an author could speak for 20 minutes and then generate audio for an entire book from the book's text and the model, I think that would be very useful.

[sva_]

20 seconds*

[jeroenhd]

Voice generator tech has created some decent surreal memes (like audio recordings of Biden, Obama, and Trump playing video games together).

Outside of memes or maybe the occasional well-intentioned prank, I really can't think of anything either.

[Rubinsalamander]

Massively reducing costs for Voice Over in Video Games. This should make it even feasible to create mods with audio which would be great :)