VALL-E can take a three-second recording of someone’s voice, and replicate that voice, turning written words into speech, with realistic intonation and emotion depending on the context of the text.
The audio prompts are sampled from the Emotional Voices Database.
Watch-out grandma…
’I’m in trouble and I need you to send me 100 bucks straight away’, ‘I will explain later’.
The live musos need to get paid for what there worth playing live gigs. my daughter has just spent 15 months playing solo gigs and even though the money
sounds good for what the venue pay per hour. it just doesnt cover all the time actually spent behind the scenes. Good experience for her though but a teaching future pays alot more with no travel and time spent away.
I see what you mean. There is an element to that but that has mostly to do with format change. I never watch the grammy awards. It is mainstream pap MOR rubbish pushed by the 'muzac' companies vying for profits. I still buy music, but unfortunately have to sift through heaps of rubbish!
It has slowed down somewhat, but not dead in my books.
The music industry "died" when Michael Jackson's Thriller made the industry realize if you make music genres more "pop" they sell better. They made more money, by making music as disposable as possible. This is why when people point to things like Grammy decline my only thought is...well yeah, how much do you care about pop culture a year after it's relevant and there's a whole new batch of stuff you're being promoted to engage with?
He was 'of his time' in that he produced music that his generation wanted to hear. Me, I'm still back with Prog rock from the '60's - and that music is timeless and is still being produced now - which is more than you can say about Michael Jackson music.
While I appreciate those important and formative eras of prog rock, I personally vastly prefer the music from experimental progressive rock bands after 2000. 😅