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by basicplus2 2137 days ago
Why are so many videos using computer generated voice overs?

I find find it a real turn off.

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Last minute changes to the content become a bit of a nuisance when the deliverable involves a voice recording, to say the least. A good synthesis pipeline could be set up to re-render the whole thing on a git hook.
a guess: cheaper to produce than other videos & favorably ranked (& chosen by consumers) in search results (vs only text)?
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Are there any public ally accessible gpt-3 AIs yet?
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Everything.
intention
I feel like posting GPT generated content should include the prompt a courtesy.

[prompt]For fun, there could be an extension to hide the prompt until you become suspicious and enter the konami code.[/prompt]

This happened in a demo at work recently. I couldn't follow along, the robot voice was just too distracting.

In that case I think it was someone insecure in their English skills, which I guess I can understand. I would rather they just do their best and we will make it work. Most of my coworkers are ESL anyway.

If it's really a problem just ask someone else to do the voiceover. The robots are not anywhere close to good enough to do the narration without being incredibly distracting.

>In that case I think it was someone insecure in their English skills, which I guess I can understand. I would rather they just do their best and we will make it work. Most of my coworkers are ESL anyway.

I think at this point, I can discern even the thickest of accents if the person were to talk slow because of my (awesome) ESL coworkers, but I'm not sure the average person from my city would be able to do the same with some thick ESL accents. I'd personally prefer the human voice like you, though.

ESL = English as a Second Language.