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by significant5 1996 days ago
I'm not too sure about that. From my testing, Fluttershy, Applejack, Twilight, Chrysalis, Rise, and Kyu (and a bunch of other characters that I'm surely forgetting) seem to perform phenomenally well. Especially Chrysalis, her emotions are extremely believable, and Fluttershy/Applejack/Rise/Kyu have almost zero noise for every generation. This might be the most impressive site I've ever seen.

Oh, I somehow forgot all of the TF2 characters. Some of them do struggle (Medic the most, I think) but everyone else seems incredibly good.

And the Daria characters, too. Honestly, the vast majority of characters are already near-perfect.

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Hrm. Well, I can't really argue with that beyond that my standards on perfect might be different.

I think some of the best voices they have are characters like Twilight, she shows a ton of promise. But as it stands right now, I would still at least hesitate to use Twilight's voice in a project unless I didn't have other options. Chrysalis's voice is good, but again, is an exaggerated cartoon character with a large amount of inflection. I would not use her voice in her current state without a lot of post-processing. Someone like the Spy I would consider to be unusable, it sounds to me like the character needs to clear their throat or something, it's got a lot of strange artifacts. I definitely would consider the 10th Doctor unusable, even for just a hobby project or a voice assistant.

But... I don't know, maybe this is subjective. I can't just tell you that what you're hearing is wrong, if you like the results then you like the results :)

And again, I don't want to detract from how impressive they are. They are incredibly impressive, particularly because of how characters like Chrysalis emote. Extremely promising. But I still think there's a difference between 'impressive' and 'believable deepfake'.

Yeah, that's fair. I dunno, I can't really hear anything wrong with Fluttershy or Applejack no matter how hard I try, but your ears are probably much better than mine :p

I've been seeing quite a few skits being posted on /r/tf2 (https://www.reddit.com/r/tf2/comments/kr374q/honestly_idk_i_...) and all of the voices sound pretty much perfect to me. But as you said, it's subjective.