39-579: (Redirected from Fifteen ) [REDACTED] Look up fifteen in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Fifteen or 15 may refer to: 15 (number) , the natural number following 14 and preceding 16 one of the years 15 BC , AD 15 , 1915 , 2015 Music [ edit ] Fifteen (band) , a punk rock band Albums [ edit ] 15 (Buckcherry album) , 2005 15 (Ani Lorak album) , 2007 15 (Phatfish album) , 2008 15 (mixtape) ,
78-558: A pseudonymous developer under the alias 15 , the project used a combination of audio synthesis algorithms, speech synthesis deep neural networks , and sentiment analysis models to generate emotive character voices faster than real-time. In early 2020, 15.ai appeared online as a proof of concept of the democratization of voice acting and dubbing . Its gratis nature, ease of use without user accounts , and improvements over existing text-to-speech implementations made it popular. Some critics and voice actors questioned
117-431: A voice actor . The application supported manually altering the emotion of a generated line using emotional contextualizers (a term coined by this project), a sentence or phrase conveying the emotion of the take that serves as a guide for the model during inference. Emotional contextualizers were representations of the emotional content of a sentence deduced via transfer learned emoji embeddings using DeepMoji ,
156-539: A 1956 juvenile fiction novel by Beverly Cleary Transportation [ edit ] First Aberdeen bus route 15 , a bus route in Aberdeen operated by First Aberdeen Line 15 , various metro lines Renault 15 , a fastback hatchback coupé Daimler Fifteen , an executive car Daimler New Fifteen , an executive car that succeeded the Daimler Fifteen Other uses [ edit ] Fifteen, Ohio ,
195-521: A 2018 mixtape by Bhad Bhabie Fifteen (Green River Ordinance album) , 2016 Fifteen (The Wailin' Jennys album) , 2017 Fifteen , a 2012 album by Colin James Songs [ edit ] "Fifteen" (song) , a 2008 song by Taylor Swift "Fifteen", a song by Harry Belafonte from the album Love Is a Gentle Thing "15", a song by Rilo Kiley from the album Under the Blacklight "15",
234-557: A British Army division List of highways numbered 15 15.ai , a real-time artificial intelligence text-to-speech tool [REDACTED] Topics referred to by the same term This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the same number. If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=15&oldid=1257035872 " Category : Lists of ambiguous numbers Hidden categories: Short description
273-457: A breakthrough in the field of speech synthesis. The project also introduced the concept of "emotional contextualizers" for controlling speech emotion through sentiment analysis . Some voice actors have publicly decried the use of voice cloning technology. Cited reasons include concerns about copyright infringement , right to privacy , impersonation and fraud , unauthorized use of an actor's voice in pornography or explicit content , and
312-465: A bus route in Aberdeen operated by First Aberdeen Line 15 , various metro lines Renault 15 , a fastback hatchback coupé Daimler Fifteen , an executive car Daimler New Fifteen , an executive car that succeeded the Daimler Fifteen Other uses [ edit ] Fifteen, Ohio , a community in the United States Fifteen puzzle , a sliding puzzle Fifteen (confection) ,
351-605: A character voice (optionally specifying an emotional contextualizer and/or phonetic transcriptions), with the system producing three variations of the audio with different emotional deliveries. The platform operated completely free of charge , though the developer reported spending thousands of dollars monthly to maintain the service. Available characters included GLaDOS and Wheatley from Portal , characters from Team Fortress 2 , Twilight Sparkle and other characters from My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic , SpongeBob , Daria Morgendorffer and Jane Lane from Daria ,
390-567: A community in the United States Fifteen puzzle , a sliding puzzle Fifteen (confection) , a sweet traybake confection from Northern Ireland The Fifteen, the Jacobite rising of 1715 where the House of Stuart attempted to regain the throne of the United Kingdom. 15 Eunomia , an asteroid in the asteroid belt 15 years old is the age of Quinceañera See also [ edit ] +15 ,
429-578: A deep neural network sentiment analysis algorithm developed by the MIT Media Lab in 2017. DeepMoji was trained on 1.2 billion emoji occurrences in Twitter data from 2013 to 2017, and outperformed human subjects in correctly identifying sarcasm in Tweets and other online modes of communication. 15.ai used a multi-speaker model —hundreds of voices were trained concurrently rather than sequentially, decreasing
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#1732851679288468-435: A neural network architecture for speech synthesis developed by Google AI , was published in 2018 and required tens of hours of audio data to produce intelligible speech; when trained on 2 hours of speech, the model was able to produce intelligible speech with mediocre quality, and when trained on 36 minutes of speech, the model was unable to produce intelligible speech. For years, reducing the amount of data required to train
507-566: A personal desktop assistant inspired by GLaDOS using 15.ai-generated dialogue in tandem with voice control system VoiceAttack. On January 14, 2022, it was discovered that Voiceverse NFT, a company that video game and anime dub voice actor Troy Baker announced his partnership with, had plagiarized voice lines generated from 15.ai as part of their marketing campaign. Log files showed that Voiceverse had generated audio of characters from My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic using 15.ai, pitched them up to make them sound unrecognizable from
546-438: A punk rock band Albums [ edit ] 15 (Buckcherry album) , 2005 15 (Ani Lorak album) , 2007 15 (Phatfish album) , 2008 15 (mixtape) , a 2018 mixtape by Bhad Bhabie Fifteen (Green River Ordinance album) , 2016 Fifteen (The Wailin' Jennys album) , 2017 Fifteen , a 2012 album by Colin James Songs [ edit ] "Fifteen" (song) , a 2008 song by Taylor Swift "Fifteen",
585-495: A realistic high-quality text-to-speech model has been a primary goal of scientific researchers in the field of deep learning speech synthesis. The developer of 15.ai claims that as little as 15 seconds of data is sufficient to clone a voice up to human standards, a significant reduction in the amount of data required. A landmark case between Google and the Authors Guild in 2013 ruled that Google Books —a service that searches
624-401: A resurgence in video and musical content creation as a result, inspiring a new genre of fan-created content assisted by artificial intelligence. Some fanfictions weren adapted into fully voiced "episodes": The Tax Breaks is a 17-minute long animated video rendition of a fan-written story published in 2014 that uses voices generated from 15.ai with sound effects and audio editing , emulating
663-467: A skyway system in Calgary 15 rating (disambiguation) 15th (Scottish) Infantry Division , a British Army division List of highways numbered 15 15.ai , a real-time artificial intelligence text-to-speech tool [REDACTED] Topics referred to by the same term This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the same number. If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change
702-502: A song by Harry Belafonte from the album Love Is a Gentle Thing "15", a song by Rilo Kiley from the album Under the Blacklight "15", a song by Marilyn Manson from the album The High End of Low " The 15th ", a 1979 song by Wire Other media [ edit ] 15 (film) , a 2003 Singaporean film Fifteen (TV series) , international release name of Hillside , a Canadian-American teen drama "Fifteen" ( Runaways ) , an episode of Runaways Fifteen (novel) ,
741-476: A song by Marilyn Manson from the album The High End of Low " The 15th ", a 1979 song by Wire Other media [ edit ] 15 (film) , a 2003 Singaporean film Fifteen (TV series) , international release name of Hillside , a Canadian-American teen drama "Fifteen" ( Runaways ) , an episode of Runaways Fifteen (novel) , a 1956 juvenile fiction novel by Beverly Cleary Transportation [ edit ] First Aberdeen bus route 15 ,
780-508: A successful startup exit. The algorithm used by the project was dubbed DeepThroat. The project and algorithm were conceived as part of MIT's Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program , and had been in development since 2018. The model used by 15.ai was inspired by a 2019 paper that introduced transfer learning to text-to-speech models. The developer also worked closely with the Pony Preservation Project from /mlp/,
819-413: A sweet traybake confection from Northern Ireland The Fifteen, the Jacobite rising of 1715 where the House of Stuart attempted to regain the throne of the United Kingdom. 15 Eunomia , an asteroid in the asteroid belt 15 years old is the age of Quinceañera See also [ edit ] +15 , a skyway system in Calgary 15 rating (disambiguation) 15th (Scottish) Infantry Division ,
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#1732851679288858-473: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages fifteen (Redirected from Fifteen ) [REDACTED] Look up fifteen in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Fifteen or 15 may refer to: 15 (number) , the natural number following 14 and preceding 16 one of the years 15 BC , AD 15 , 1915 , 2015 Music [ edit ] Fifteen (band) ,
897-405: Is still under debate; due to the black-box nature of machine learning models, any allegations of copyright infringement via direct competition would be difficult to prove. 15.ai was designed and created by an anonymous research scientist known by the alias 15 . Developing and running 15.ai cost several thousands of dollars per month, initially funded by the developer's personal finances after
936-463: The My Little Pony board of 4chan . This project was a "collaborative effort by /mlp/ to build and curate pony datasets" with the aim of creating applications in artificial intelligence. The Friendship Is Magic voices on 15.ai were trained on a large dataset crowdsourced by the project: audio and dialogue from the show and related media —including all nine seasons of Friendship Is Magic ,
975-721: The My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic fandom , the Team Fortress 2 fandom, the Portal fandom, and the SpongeBob SquarePants fandom, with numerous videos and projects containing speech from 15.ai having gone viral . The platform is credited as the impetus behind the popularization of AI voice cloning in content creation, demonstrating the potential for accessible, high-quality voice synthesis technology. The My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic fandom saw
1014-475: The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary , 4chan , Reddit , and Twitter . Pronunciations of unfamiliar words were automatically deduced using phonological rules learned by the deep learning model. The application supported a simplified phonetic transcription known as ARPABET , to correct mispronunciations and account for heteronyms —words that are spelled the same but are pronounced differently (such as
1053-516: The Tenth Doctor Who , HAL 9000 from 2001: A Space Odyssey , the Narrator from The Stanley Parable , Carl Brutananadilewski from Aqua Teen Hunger Force , Steven Universe , Dan from Dan Vs. , and Sans from Undertale . The nondeterministic nature of the deep learning model ensured that each generation would have slightly different intonations, similar to multiple takes from
1092-435: The legality and ethicality of making such technology so readily accessible. The site was credited as the impetus behind the popularization of AI voice cloning (also known as audio deepfakes ) in content creation . It was embraced by Internet fandoms such as My Little Pony , Team Fortress 2 , and SpongeBob SquarePants . Several commercial alternatives appeared in the following years. In January 2022,
1131-431: The 2017 movie , spinoffs , leaks , and various other content voiced by the same voice actors—were parsed , hand-transcribed , and processed to remove background noise. 15.ai was met with a largely positive reception. Liana Ruppert of Game Informer described it as "simplistically brilliant" and José Villalobos of LaPS4 wrote that it "works as easy as it looks." Lauren Morton of Rock, Paper, Shotgun called
1170-435: The company Voiceverse NFT plagiarized 15.ai's work as part of their platform. In September 2022, a year after its last stable release, 15.ai was taken offline. As of November 2024, the website was still offline, with the creator's most recent post being dated February 2023. The platform required no user registration or account creation to generate voices. Users could generate speech by entering text and selecting
1209-475: The episodic style of the early seasons of Friendship Is Magic . Viral videos from the Team Fortress 2 fandom featuring voices from 15.ai include Spy is a Furry (which gained over 3 million views on YouTube across multiple videos ) and The RED Bread Bank , both of which inspired Source Filmmaker animated video renditions. Other fandoms used voices from 15.ai to produce viral videos. As of July 2022 ,
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1248-414: The full text of printed copyrighted books—was transformative , thus meeting all requirements for fair use. This case set an important legal precedent for the field of deep learning and artificial intelligence: using copyrighted material to train a discriminative model or a non-commercial generative model was deemed legal. The legality of commercial generative models trained using copyrighted material
1287-530: The link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=15&oldid=1257035872 " Category : Lists of ambiguous numbers Hidden categories: Short description is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages 15.ai 15.ai was a freeware artificial intelligence web application that generated text-to-speech voices from fictional characters from various media sources. Created by
1326-619: The original voices to market their own platform—in violation of 15.ai's terms of service. Voiceverse claimed that someone in their marketing team used the voice without properly crediting 15.ai, and in response, 15 tweeted "Go fuck yourself." 15.ai introduced several technical innovations in voice cloning . While traditional text-to-speech systems like Google 's Tacotron2 required tens of hours of audio data to produce intelligible speech in 2017, 15.ai claimed to achieve high-quality voice cloning with as little as 15 seconds of training data. This reduction in required training data represented
1365-482: The potential of AI being used to make voice actors obsolete . In his 2020 assessment of 15.ai in artificial intelligence newsletter The Batch , computer scientist Andrew Ng wrote: "Voice cloning could be enormously productive. In Hollywood , it could revolutionize the use of virtual actors. In cartoons and audiobooks, it could enable voice actors to participate in many more productions. In online education, kids might pay more attention to lessons delivered by
1404-408: The required training time and enabling the model to learn and generalize shared emotional context, even for voices with no exposure to that context. Consequently, the characters in the application were powered by a single trained model, as opposed to multiple single-speaker models. The lexicon used by 15.ai was scraped from a variety of Internet sources, including Oxford Dictionaries , Wiktionary ,
1443-451: The tool "fascinating," and Yuki Kurosawa of AUTOMATON deemed it "revolutionary." Users praised the ability to easily create audio of popular characters that sound believable to those unaware they had been synthesized. Zack Zwiezen of Kotaku reported that "[his] girlfriend was convinced it was a new voice line from GLaDOS ' voice actor, Ellen McLain ". 15.ai was frequently used for content creation in various fandoms , including
1482-577: The viral video Among Us Struggles (with voices from Friendship Is Magic ) had over 5.5 million views on YouTube; YouTubers , TikTokers , and Twitch streamers also used 15.ai for their videos, such as FitMC's video on the history of 2b2t —one of the oldest running Minecraft servers—and datpon3's TikTok video featuring the main characters of Friendship Is Magic , which have 1.4 million and 510 thousand views, respectively. Some users created AI virtual assistants using 15.ai and external voice control software. One user on Twitter created
1521-417: The word read , which can be pronounced as either / ˈ r ɛ d / or / ˈ r iː d / depending on its tense ). It followed the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary 's ARPABET conventions. In 2016, with the proposal of DeepMind 's WaveNet , deep-learning-based models for speech synthesis began to gain popularity as a method of modeling waveforms and generating high-fidelity human-like speech. Tacotron2,
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