Presidential Raps: Finally got around to listening to those Speech Synthesis rap lyrics videos.
If you don’t know: “Back in 2017, Google Research published a paper on using machine learning to create vocal synthesis models – just feed the system samples of someone’s speech and then hand it a script and it would read that speech in the target’s voice.”
Here’s Obama reciting 99 Problems (curses and all…when he says “my black ass…” I laughed.)
His real voice…he’s said all of those words or syllables in some cases but it’s all computer magic.
If I didn’t tell you this or if you hadn’t heard about it you’d swear this is like a Fallon bit.
It’s super scary but it’s also super funny.
The Obama video was released in April…Bill Clinton’s Baby Got Back was dropped back in March.
Hope they make some more soon.
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