Frightening link - I hope you [...]

… enjoy?
… dream about how we can do this on sounds?
… are slightly afraid?

https://thispersondoesnotexist.com/

Have you seen the research with WaveNet, RNNs and WaveGan? You need some serious gear to get some pretty crappy results. Why is visual stuff so far ahead!?

I heard them, hence the word ‘dreaming’ :wink: I don’t know for sure why the visual world is so ahead, and @groma is the specialist here, but i think it is both a cognitive bandwidth (the eye is easier tricked) and commercial incentive (the cinema world has A LOT of money)…

Click through a bit and you see mouths and such repeat. So, while the person did not exist, the body part did, I think. More of a Mr Potato Head kind of vibe than completely reconstructing waveforms.

Also, I could listen to the generated talking on this page all day:

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a good metaphor for concatenation indeed :wink:

Speaking of speaking of concatenation, the WaveNet article has not been evaluated by musicians I reckon… the blue lagoon comparison sounds worse than the concatenative example yet they rank it superior…