about TTS in videos
Nov. 11th, 2024 04:55 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kossaisort of upset that , especially since " AI boom " , people really immediately distrust if not outright hate text to speech voices , and will make this very very clear .
some people can not talk , at all . learn some fucking decency .
yes , some people online use TTS and especially generative TTS to overproduce and push out audio and video in rate which no human realistically could , often to try and turn some kind of profit .
but other people online use TTS because voice is identifiable in some way - maybe not to vast majority , but to even one person who could put in danger .
other times , someone will use TTS because voice is hard to understand , like with speech impediments or very thick accents , and know people would leave hate .
and yes . some people use TTS in real life , because again , can not fucking talk .
there is no situation where " just be less lazy , use voice and read " will help .
first person is not lazy , first person just do not care about implications - or worse , actively celebrate .
second person is not lazy , second person want protect self .
third person is not lazy , third person want to avoid stress of audience who mock rather than listen .
fourth person is not lazy , fourth person is just person try to exist .
this is not to defend generative TTS in specific , especially where impersonation might come into play . but TTS in self is not evil , and people who use TTS publicly should never be enemy by default .
some people can not talk , at all . learn some fucking decency .
yes , some people online use TTS and especially generative TTS to overproduce and push out audio and video in rate which no human realistically could , often to try and turn some kind of profit .
but other people online use TTS because voice is identifiable in some way - maybe not to vast majority , but to even one person who could put in danger .
other times , someone will use TTS because voice is hard to understand , like with speech impediments or very thick accents , and know people would leave hate .
and yes . some people use TTS in real life , because again , can not fucking talk .
there is no situation where " just be less lazy , use voice and read " will help .
first person is not lazy , first person just do not care about implications - or worse , actively celebrate .
second person is not lazy , second person want protect self .
third person is not lazy , third person want to avoid stress of audience who mock rather than listen .
fourth person is not lazy , fourth person is just person try to exist .
this is not to defend generative TTS in specific , especially where impersonation might come into play . but TTS in self is not evil , and people who use TTS publicly should never be enemy by default .
Yes ...
Date: Nov. 12th, 2024 01:29 am (UTC)A linguist friend of mine pointed out, years ago, that outsourcing customer service to India, where labor is cheap, means that most Americans build up very negative experiences with Indian-accented English. And where is another place people hear a lot of Indian-accented English? In health care, where we have may Indian doctors and other workers. So then, the negative association carries over from being mistreated in customer service interactions (which is not the workers' fault, it's how the company sets up the system), which means they also have negative associations with hearing Indian-accented English in health care. This inclines people to hate and distrust Indian medics. Even if you know this, there is only so much you can do to counter the very strong feeling with logic. That makes it hard to sort out who is genuinely a threat in a medical cartel that is also, unfortunately, run by predatory companies.
AI is ruining a lot of things just by existing in their vicinity. TTS users are only one group getting harmed by this, and they're an easy target because America already hates people with disabilities or differences.
Re: Yes ...
Date: Nov. 12th, 2024 03:29 pm (UTC)