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Try the demo here, you record a video of yourself and it does voice cloning and a comparison:

https://seamless.metademolab.com/expressive/?utm_source=meta...

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> This research demo is not open to residents of, or those accessing the demo from, the States of Illinois or Texas.

Interesting mix.

Illinois has a facial recognition / cloud biometrics ban. Familiar face detection for doorbells etc. isn't allowed there. Wonder if Texas has something similar?

Ah, that makes sense.

In Texas it seems to be part of AG Paxton's culture war stuff. https://www.texastribune.org/2022/05/12/texas-face-filters-i...

Likely related to biometrics laws. I know Illinois has restrictions on the collection of biometrics, not sure about Texas. Facebook in particular paid out a significant amount of money in a class action in Illinois, I know because I got a chunk of change from it.

which you mean someone took a dime and carved off a piece of it, and then sent you a piece of paper with postage that cost more than the value of that chunk? yeah, we all got hosed by that one too i'd imagine

https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/illinois-facebook-user...

> According to the Settlement Administrator, payments to class members between $200 to $400 started going in the mail May 9.

I got a $0.19 check from an iTunes settlement once, but this wasn't one of those cases.

It’s because of https://www.ilga.gov/legislation/ilcs/ilcs3.asp?ActID=3004&C...

Facebook has had to pay out hundreds of millions of dollars in settlements for related class-action lawsuits, and rather than trying to get informed consent, they’re deciding not to collect biometrics from residents of those states.

As someone working in tech and following along the progression of AI, I believe I have the right expectation. But still feels surreal seeing myself speaking a foreign language in my own speech style.

And that demo is now overloaded and fails to translate the input :D

Well that was spectacularly bad. Failed to translate a single word from english->spanish. Admittedly I was using George Carlins favorites, but if you're trying to have an expressive language translator that refuses to translate "fuck" then what you've got is bullshit.

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