AI Voice Realism

The cluster focuses on discussions about the quality and realism of AI-generated or cloned voices in a demo video, with users debating whether they sound human-like, match specific individuals, or resemble text-to-speech with uncanny valley effects.

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mattsan Oct 24, 2023 View on HN

You could have at least used a real person's voice

vernie Jun 19, 2019 View on HN

Why didn't they use voice cloning?

mkmk3 Feb 12, 2025 View on HN

Wasn't using an iconic voice but it does seem to be voice specific, good call

kkarakk Mar 28, 2019 View on HN

no offense meant - no one sounds like this. record your voice and play it back side by side. there's some kinda uncanny valley effect at play

z7 May 21, 2024 View on HN

Looks like you're not the only one who thinks the voices don't sound similar:https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40414908https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40414923https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40419791</a

josu Nov 10, 2023 View on HN

Does the narration sound like AI to anyone else?

mechanical_bear Oct 21, 2022 View on HN

Awesome work, glad to see such progress. Why is this person using such a weird voice modulation? Or are they using a text to voice to engine? It makes it difficult to understand.

tiborsaas Apr 26, 2024 View on HN

Same here, I've tried it with my own voice and luckily it sounds nothing like me.

jrfarina Oct 31, 2016 View on HN

Is it just me or does his voice sound exactly like a text-to-speech reading?

tantalor Nov 17, 2023 View on HN

It is not clear that the voice is synthetic