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Spotify is going to clone podcasters’ voices — and translate them to other languages (www.theverge.com)
submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/technology
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A partnership with OpenAI will let podcasters replicate their voices to automatically create foreign-language versions of their shows.

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I have mix feeling about this, I have many English podcasts that I would love to recommend to my non-english speaking friends, so I feel very excited about this idea. But again, I felt the podcasters are being abused in someway with this.

[–] tabris 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Are the podcasters getting paid for these translated versions? If so, and at the same rate, then I don't personally see an issue. If not, then yes, it's exploitation.

Edit: and as long as the AI voice isn't reused for other content without consent from the owner of said voice.