« BackCorentinJ: Real-Time Voice Cloning (2021)github.comSubmitted by redbell 20 hours ago
  • hleszek 19 hours ago

    For some reason the VibeVoice model from Microsoft (which is also able to clone voices and is also very good) has been deleted from GitHub 10 days ago even tough it was released under a MIT license. But this post shows that the cat is out of the bag for some time already now (post is from 2021) and we have to live with this technology.

    • qwertox 18 hours ago

      The reason is known: "we discovered instances where the tool was used in ways inconsistent with the stated intent"

      • askl 14 hours ago

        The stated intend would be scamming people I guess? What would be the other ways inconsistent with that?

        • numpad0 13 hours ago

          NSFW? That seems to be a bigger deal on the Internet today than scams, somehow.

          • frank_nitti 12 hours ago

            Honest question - is NSFW just a code word for pornography now?

            I had thought it would be anything that isn’t safe to open at work, including things with extreme profanity or gore, etc

            • numpad0 11 hours ago

              To me, the word feel like it's almost a synonym for anime, pornographic or not, with a hint of negativity.

      • whimsicalism 11 hours ago

        there are many easy extant ways to do voice coding. many models are released without a “voice embedding” model but they are easy to recreate by passing the gradients through the soft prompt

        • nickthegreek 18 hours ago

          any links still up?

          • hleszek 18 hours ago

            https://github.com/Enemyx-net/VibeVoice-ComfyUI

            • cchance 18 hours ago

              And that's why people need to clone these repos from big companies when their first released.

              • anonymousiam 18 hours ago

                Cloning the repo isn't enough, because Microsoft/Github still control the platform, and can delete all copies they have control over.

                • dceddia 17 hours ago

                  Cloning the repo (running git clone on your computer) is enough because it makes a local copy. Forking merely makes a copy under your account on GitHub though which is not going to survive if they go on a deleting spree.

                  • anonymousiam 15 hours ago

                    Yes, you are correct. I used the word "clone" when I should have used the word "fork" instead.

            • woadwarrior01 14 hours ago

              There's a community maintained fork.

              https://github.com/vibevoice-community/VibeVoice

          • ivape 15 hours ago

            Does anyone know for sure if Voice ID has security measures to protect against AI voice cloning?

            • macawfish 19 hours ago

              Atomic bomb level technological shifts happening, open sourced online. What a time to be alive!

              • avereveard 19 hours ago

                (2021)

                • niek_pas 18 hours ago

                  In fact, the YouTube video the GitHub repo links to is from 2019.

                  • jasonjmcghee 17 hours ago

                    Papers are all from 2017-2018

                    • macawfish 8 hours ago

                      Doesn't change the fact that it's really epic

                  • p2detar 18 hours ago

                    It looks rather complete, but indeed - the project has 3 commits for the past 3 years.