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naraburns  nihil supernum  1yr ago (text post)   3364 thread views

Friday Fun Thread for March 10, 2023

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This is glorious. Got any more?

Like the vast majority of the AI voice content they're originally from 4chan. For instance a quick search of the /v/ archive for Nawbudike finds this post with one of those linked and two others. (The archive sites for the other boards are desuarchive.org, 4plebs.org, and archived.moe but that one doesn't have working search for many boards.) You could also search Youtube for "AI voice" for the ones that someone uploaded there, this account has a bunch, most haven't made their way to Youtube but presumably the ones that have tend to be somewhat higher quality.

I previously came across this list of 163 ones but they're mostly ones from /pol/, I don't know if there's a similar list with more from the AI voice threads on other boards. Creation presumably slowed down a lot since ElevenLabs started requiring payment to train new voices. Note that Vocaroo deletes files after 3 months to a year, I bulk downloaded the ones in that list of 163 but I don't know how many others are just Vocaroo links in archived 4chan threads that nobody has saved.

Alas, no. I checked the guy's youtube page but it seems to be just those two.

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