Comment on One Bad Mother? In Defense of Star Trek's Lwaxana Troi
data1701d@startrek.website 4 days agoI haven’t gotten all the way through it yet, but I have very occasionally come back to it as a hobby project over the past year because I have been trying to collect a dataset of Majel’s lines in order to train a text to speech voice.
Usually, I’d find that a bit unethical, but in this case, they literally tried to do that before she died, which I think is as close to consent to such a reproduction as most passed actors could give. Also, it’s mostly for fun for something like HomeAssistant on Raspberry Pi.
Dagwood222@lemm.ee 4 days ago
It is an interesting point. I once heard an anecdote that Jimmy Cagney hated being impersonated in Warner’s cartoons, but Bogart got a kick out of it. The same with Weird Al, some folks love getting parodied and others refuse to have him touch their songs.
Personally, I think it would be pretty sweet if some spaceship three hundred years from now was using her voice .
data1701d@startrek.website 3 days ago
I view satirical voice impression and speech synthesis of a real person as two different ethical issues entirely.
I find impressions intended for satire fall within the real of the first amendment, while the latter can be an unwelcome appropriation of identity when done wrong.
Dagwood222@lemm.ee 3 days ago
Technology changes everything. Thee were “Tijuana bibles” showing famous folks for years; Deep Fake tech changes that entirely.
It’s more than you and I can settle. Good night.