AI Voices and the future of LOVEWEB

**AI Voices and the future of LOVEWEB** is a short video related to *LOVEWEB*.

## Info

This video is a announcement regarding the voices of Manon and Cybermare done with AI.

## Transcript

**Shadok:** ok so i've been working on the next loveweb episode after taking a break to work on other stuff and no, the next loveweb is not homestuck part 2. part 1 required a whole team that i hired with money i've saved up over a whole time and right now, i don't have the money for it. so, yeah. it's not happening anytime soon. so i finished the script of the next episode, the animatic, and now it's time to do.... the voices. which, you know are ai generated for manon and cybermare. see, back in late 2019 and early 2020, when i was thinking of how to make loveweb, i intended on using either text to speech or vocaloids to make manon and cybermare talk. sadly, text to speech back then sounded really stale and vocaloids are a really hard to make them talk comprehensibly
*(clip from Interview with Hatsune Miku plays)*
**Shadok:** i wanted to use tools like this because one: i was and still am too poor to afford voice actors. and two: i didn't feel comfortable putting my voice out there back then. also my voice acting skills are non-existent. but during that time i started hearing about the pony voice preservation project in 4chan. the goal was to create text to speech to make their waifus say anything they want. several anons worked on that project for a while and in march 2020, 15 would be the one to make a website that's really easy to use and all completely free. fast forward to now and, many other ai powered tools are getting mainstream attention, and seeing corporations are using those to replace workers, ai is rightfully frowned upon a lot now. as a creator myself and someone who makes some money off a show that uses ai voices from non-consenting people... you can understand how this is all very uncomfortable now, compared to 3 years ago when i didn't understand the ethics of all this. there's always the argument that i'm not some big corporation and you know, i can't even afford rent and food with loveweb but ehhh. this has become way too uncomfy for me to keep using ai voices by non-consenting voice actors even if obviously i cannot afford to get those super popular voice actors. i feel like i should be supporting small voice actors. instead of using ai replicas of popular ones, you know? so what's my options? i could continue with ai through using my own voice or someone consenting but even then normalizing using ai feels wrong. i obviously can't use old text to speech or vocaloid tools because this is gonna make the voices even more boring and annoying, and one critism of loveweb i'd like to take care of is having clear easy to understand voices. yeah.... feels like its time for loveweb to get actual voice actors but then again i'm poor, and i'd like to make a real living with my content at some point too. living with family covers some expenses but it comes at a big mental cost that greatly hamper my ability to create art for all of you. i'd accept people proposing their voices for cheap or some form of artistic compensation or even for free but, this also feels wrong because then again, i'm still making money out of loveweb, even if it's not a lot. and contrary to something like a music album, voice actors can't really put up their lines on bandcamp for purchase. so yeah, i don't know what to do. sorry if there's no real conclusion to this video, this was more of a vent of what's been on my mind lately and like a cry for help into the internet to see if anything could come out of this. if you can, please consider supporting me through patreon or commisions on ko-fi. that sort of stuff will help overcoming these issues and keep the project alive and grow. i really hope i can keep making loveweb and other creative projects for you all, it's the thing that i want to do more than anything else.

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## Notes

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