Just Because We Camp, Doesn't Mean We Should: The Ethics of Modelling Queer Voices

Autor:	Sigurgeirsson, Atli, Ungless, Eddie L.
Rok vydání:	2024
Předmět:	Computer Science - Computation and Language
Druh dokumentu:	Working Paper
Popis:	Modern voice cloning models claim to be able to capture a diverse range of voices. We test the ability of a typical pipeline to capture the style known colloquially as "gay voice" and notice a homogenisation effect: synthesised speech is rated as sounding significantly "less gay" (by LGBTQ+ participants) than its corresponding ground-truth for speakers with "gay voice", but ratings actually increase for control speakers. Loss of "gay voice" has implications for accessibility. We also find that for speakers with "gay voice", loss of "gay voice" corresponds to lower similarity ratings. However, we caution that improving the ability of such models to synthesise ``gay voice'' comes with a great number of risks. We use this pipeline as a starting point for a discussion on the ethics of modelling queer voices more broadly. Collecting "clean" queer data has safety and fairness ramifications, and the resulting technology may cause harms from mockery to death. Comment: 4 pages (+1 page references). To be presented at Interspeech 2024
Databáze:	arXiv
Externí odkaz:	http://arxiv.org/abs/2406.07504 Zobrazit plný text záznamu View this record from Arxiv