I hope I’m explaining myself right.

I’m thinking of modulating my voice.

Thoughts? How would I go about this?

  • @darkcalling
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    121 year ago

    Text to speech is the only way. However your manner of speaking even in writing could be used to fingerprint you. If you’re just making communist videos on youtube it likely doesn’t matter as the government isn’t going to go to that much effort to unmask you and unless you write or speak for a living matching your cadence, structured way of speaking, mannerisms, etc back to you as a real person will be difficult.

    If you’re not a high profile person, don’t work for the government or government cut-outs like think tanks, etc it becomes much harder for them to zero you without additional clues. Of course at that point we’re talking about other opsec like preventing them from seeing your real IP address when sharing content which is a direct line back to who you really are.

    So vary the way you write your text to speech, change it from your everyday, intentionally insert pauses, breaks, phrases you never use which suggest you’re from a different demographic, region, etc than you really are. Editing and refining your text to go into the text to speech generator can help immensely with this versus pure stream of consciousness/off-the-cuff speaking.

    • @holdengreen
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      11 year ago

      do you know specific software tools to do this? I know Python libraries and stuff like that.

      • @darkcalling
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        21 year ago

        To do what? Text to speech? There are a variety of tools but unfortunately I don’t have any specific recommendations. Not something I personally dabble in.

        I’d prefer something not from a big top 10 evil tech companies where possible. Definitely something local, ideally without internet access allowed to it, ideally in a sandbox/virtual machine that has no internet access period so it can’t possibly report back to daddy big tech you’re saying no-no things. In fact take the precaution of denying it internet access and using something local and it doesn’t matter if it’s from a big evil tech company.

        As to speech pattern changes. That I don’t know. Wouldn’t be surprised if there were concept tools by university students for it but personally I do it the old fashioned way with discipline and effort.