[screamingninja]

What is a legitimate use case for this? I can think of a hundred applications for deceiving others but struggle to come up with a scenario where one would want their voice cloned or reproduced.

[dannyw]

You're recording a podcast and want to tweak some of your own words, without the hassle of re-recording.

You're an indie game developer, and want to have vibrant NPCs with their unique voices and dialogues powered by a LLM.

You're producing a movie, and want to tweak certain lines of dialogue; with the consent of the talent.

You suffer from health conditions and are gradually losing your voice, but you still want to communicate.

There are certainly legitimate use cases of this technology. I personally believe illegitimate use cases overshadow the legitimate use cases, but I don't think it's fair to say there are no legitimate applications.

We should strictly regulate the use of this technology by criminalizing abuse; not by banning it altogether (which is pretty hard in the case of software and small models).

[dylan604]

> You're producing a movie, and want to tweak certain lines of dialogue; with the consent of the talent.

The latest agreement to end the last round of strikes was to prevent this very thing.

Of your list, the medical condition to give someone their real voice instead of a Hawking voice would be the most legit reason. Everything else is a skewed sense of morally acceptable as I think they are shady

[ranger_danger]

I wish I had your creativity when trying to think of something useful to code.

[whycome]

It’s only a matter of time before Alexa and other agents use better customizable voices.

Audiobooks could have voices read by characters rather than a single narrator faking it. (If even)

You have a cold but still want to give a speech without coughing.

Low bandwidth transmission of audio: transmit just the text and use local voice model to replay it.

Talk to your loved ones after they’re gone.

Hilarity and comedy.

[beretguy]

> Talk to your loved ones after they’re gone.

Ok, no, that's bad. Have you seen Black Mirror?

[ranger_danger]

Imagine the day when Alexa speaks back to you in your own voice. People would go insane.

[r2_pilot]

You may not be trying hard at all then. The first thing I thought was to clone your voice to use in real-time translations. I can probably think of several others mentioned in comments below, but this is a 100% always-useful never-nefarious(assuming perfect translation not being maliciously used) application.

[brigadier132]

This tech makes me not even want to speak.

[anotherevan]

I have a friend with a paralysed larynx who is often using his phone or a small laptop to type in order to communicate. I know he would love it if it was possible to take old recordings of him speaking and use that to give him back "his" voice, at least in some small measure.

Unfortunately I have yet to see something that can do this and provide a voice model that you could plug into Android TTS and/or Windows which are what he uses.

[jilijeanlouis]

Why would you use a dedicated app? Does it have to be natively embedded in android ?

[shortrounddev2]

I play a lot of counter-strike and it's very amusing when people hurl insults at the other team with the voice of Joe Biden

[colechristensen]

Fixing small errors in narration, voiceovers, or other recorded content.

Translation of recorded content with the original voice into new languages.

Comedy as long as it’s obvious that it’s a fake.

Actually intentionally selling your voice to be the voice of some text to speech product. Maybe I want Alexa to have the voice of Danny Devito, as long as he’s ok with it and getting paid.

[lukevp]

My wife has been sick all week and has to communicate over text because her voice has gone. We’ve been talking about making voice clones of ourselves for situations like this. Some people never regain their voices so preserving them before they lose it is super valuable.

[gotrythis]

I imagine training people, and having everything I say be available in any language, matching my tonality, and being able to reach a global audience. I'm very much looking forward to this.

[mlboss]

Podcast production without speaking. Audio correction in media.

[bhickey]

> What is a legitimate use case for this?

Voice loss.

[tmaly]

What if you wanted to create audio for your videos without having to have a recording session.

[smrtinsert]

Tiktok videos for the amusement of millions?

[dylan604]

For 6 months before it's banned!

[tjbiddle]

Sending personalized messages to customers

[codelobe]

Indie Gamedevs can do their own Voice Acting? See also indie film, same use case. Actor dies / hit by buss before a work is finished - Create a few more lines posthumously (it'll be in the fine print of the contract that you allow voice & image fakes in the event not able to do them). Satire, Pranks, and alleged pranks (stuff that makes folk laugh).