Suddenly, my Private Messages limit has increased to 4x what it was before. No longer will I have to keep deleting valuable messages and live on the brink of a 98%~99% full inbox.
I don't see anything about this on the News site or the forum? Did we perhaps get other upgrades too? Maybe I can make bigger head now so everyone can see my swimsuit body and that my picture isn't a boy?
QUOTE(Pretty anon @ regular vtubers are all guys using voice changers)
I used the elevenlabs thingy...I would still recommend you a voice changer by all means, if nothing else for privacy.
So it was basically a more intelligent synthesized voice reading script, I see. I tried out that site and when I made it speak myself, it didn't have any of the minor audio quality issues that your recording did. Thus, it would not be identifiable as
some voice changers are, due to audio quality degradation.
I guess weaknesses of elevenlabs are: 1) they want you to pay money 2) the more complex AI needs a longer sentence to think about in order to work properly, and it's still not absolutely guaranteed to speak well 3) there is a super long delay to synthesize speech at least on the website version, which would make it not worth it to use on streams in my opinion.
In any case, I do see a lot of the "regular" vtubers that I interact with, use basic speech synthesis for all the chatters. It's common when you have a small youtube channel that won't flood with crap from thousands of chatters.
Another common thing is to use an automatic speech recognition program on your own speech, then generate subtitles in Japanese (for yourself) then machine translate to English (for overseas viewers). Most of the commonly available programs for this suck, though. The last time a vtuber tried to use this for me, he immediately started saying "this program sucks, it's totally meaningless, can't translate a single thing correctly" and he was right. I think it might have been his voice though, because I saw other similar vtubers use that same thing and it was coherent at least once in a great while. He was using an incredibly strange voice changer to a girl, that I've not heard anyone else use, but still sounds like a guy.
Hmm, seems the other big aspect of this elevenlabs thingie is that it's supposed to be a quickly trainable AI that can copy other people's voices, both the sound of the voice and the way they speak.
So if you could automatically transcribe your spoken words into text, you could have elevenlabs spit out some out anime girl's voice. But my guess is that it would have a huge delay for this which would make it not useable in realtime applications. There would be a delay both in the process of transcribing speech to text, then another huge delay to transcribe multiple full sentences back to proper speech.
Just use a voice changer. The "good" ones that I've heard don't have any audio quality issues. They are only identifiable because these ones tend to be commonly heard bank voices (which sound almost exactly the same independent of how different the input voice is) but eventually there will be so many bank voices you won't be able to identify them that way anymore.
But if I used a voice changer then I'd be not much different from all the other thousands of Japanese guys using girl voice changers. My natural voice is rare and probably worth using. My biggest problem might be how to prepare people beforehand so they don't go nuts if they realize at some point they misidentified what I was. Maybe I can prefix my name "Simp Crusher Splash" for those occasional times I might ruin people's lives.
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