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That watermark detection rights at the end is real sus

At least right now, there is a literal add_watermark function, so probably easy enough to remove that surface level. Unless they added something cute to the training data to poison the well.

https://github.com/myshell-ai/OpenVoice/blob/a33963c3d764bee...

What exactly are you talking about? The paper doesn't mention any watermark at all, as far as I can see/search.

The readme on the linked github reads: “MyShell reserves the ability to detect whether an audio is generated by OpenVoice, no matter whether the watermark is added or not.”

As you say, right at the bottom https://github.com/myshell-ai/OpenVoice

Ah, thank you. Guess that's OK that the company/service do whatever they want, the paper/technique doesn't involve watermarks, so it'd be easy to remove/modify whatever they do in the library/service itself.

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