[deeplearner1]

If you want more information about 15.ai, I highly suggest reading their Wikipedia article! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/15.ai

The whole history behind the project is fascinating: 4chan had a huge role in its development, and the project's work was stolen by an NFT company that a famous voice actor endorsed not too long ago.

[julianeon]

Ah, I was wondering why they were so concerned about attribution.

The truth is that, today, if I was going to use a tool to generate voices (say for YouTube), I wouldn't necessarily pick a small SaaS tool. I'd use Amazon Polly or some other GCP-style platform voice creation tool. There are already a few products in the space, and their costs are so low as to be almost negligible (example: Polly, 5 million characters free). For a commercial project, I could probably stay on a free tier for a whole year.

With Dall*E, it seems like the only option, and it's such a superior option that a website could abuse it for commercial profits. But for voice synthesis, it's already dirt cheap and commercially available without limitations.

[rockemsockem]

Polly and GCP's voices still sound a tad robotic though unfortunately :/

15.ai seems to beat them on some sentences, but not all. Looking forward to the day when we can have real human-level quality of voices on-demand.

[gwern]

15-kun has always been fanatical about attribution; the plagiarism just made him more so.