I used ChatGPT to create the script for the AI audio application and I asked the following questions:
Will AI replicate the true essence of a person better than a photograph?
I used ElevenLabs to replicate my speech. First I recorded around one minute of my voice and uploaded it to the platform. I uploaded the ChatGPT text and within minutes it accurately copied my voice.
With the digital human creator D-ID, I uploaded a video still from an interview I recorded a few weeks ago which is of higher image quality, and for balance uploaded a photo from my cell phone. I then uploaded the ElevenLabs audio file of me reciting the ChatGPT script.
ElevenLabs is still in beta and it produced an exceptional clone of my voice, and that’s incredible but now anyone can copy my voice and do something criminal with it. Good luck with that!
D-ID was a little off in replicating my mouth when I speak but it did do a great job with eye blinking and head movement.
Both platforms were incredibly easy to use for businesses needing cheap videos for websites and social media.
Ginger Liu is the founder of Ginger Media & Entertainment, a Ph.D. Researcher in artificial intelligence and visual arts media, and an author, journalist, artist, and filmmaker. Listen to the Podcast.
I used ChatGPT to create the script for the AI audio application and I asked the following questions:
Will AI replicate the true essence of a person better than a photograph?
I used ElevenLabs to replicate my speech. First I recorded around one minute of my voice and uploaded it to the platform. I uploaded the ChatGPT text and within minutes it accurately copied my voice.
With the digital human creator D-ID, I uploaded a video still from an interview I recorded a few weeks ago which is of higher image quality, and for balance uploaded a photo from my cell phone. I then uploaded the ElevenLabs audio file of me reciting the ChatGPT script.
ElevenLabs is still in beta and it produced an exceptional clone of my voice, and that’s incredible but now anyone can copy my voice and do something criminal with it. Good luck with that!
D-ID was a little off in replicating my mouth when I speak but it did do a great job with eye blinking and head movement.
Both platforms were incredibly easy to use for businesses needing cheap videos for websites and social media.
Ginger Liu is the founder of Ginger Media & Entertainment, a Ph.D. Researcher in artificial intelligence and visual arts media, and an author, journalist, artist, and filmmaker. Listen to the Podcast.
I Have Lost Myself is a powerful and disturbing compilation from 300+ videos, filmed daily over 30 days, depicting the raw and honest portrait of living with dementia and the blurring of artist process.
What unfolds is the colliding of performance and the every day as the artist slowly loses her sense of self.
I Have Lost Myself – HD Video, 28:09 minutes, color/sound
Give Me the Key is a performance of psychotic demands and emotions caused by Alzheimer’s disease. Originally intended as a live performance, the audio and video installation is part of the accompanied I Have Lost Myself thirty-day film project which presents the everyday rehearsals and confessions of the artist process.
Inspired by Carl Dreyer’s “The Passion of Joan of Arc” (1928), performances are filmed in extreme close-up to emphasize the actor’s emotions and invoke audience response.
Give Me the Key – HD Video, 11 minutes, color/sound, loop
2 August 2019
St John’s University Shanghai alumni reunion of 1940s graduates. 2009.
Days can get very long.
My family emigrated to America from England in 1966.
Dear Noni and John is the reading of more than 100 letters, written by my aunt in Liverpool to my mother in Los Angeles, between 1966-1969.
Triny Love Teaser Promo 2
After spending elven months caring for my mother until her passing in August 2018 from dementia, Triny was diagnosed with terminal kidney disease and given five weeks to live.
This is a film about those five weeks.
Ginger Liu
Toni’s ashes came home on my dad’s birthday. He would have been 98 on April 16, 2019. Noni died last August and it’s taken this time to pick up the ashes but apparently that was nothing compared to some ashes being left for ten plus years, according to the undertaker. Noni will stay in her bedroom until we spread her ashes on the roses were dad rests.
“I remember when mum’s wedding ring fell off her finger. Or rather, I found it on the bathroom floor by the toilet. She didn’t even know it had gone and this had been on her finger since she got married in 1954. It was yet another symbolic event of her life with dementia. The symbol of her as a wife who married to have children and she was wife and mother and that ring represented that, that was her identity and it had fallen, forgotten on the bathroom floor by the toilet.
Mum is in wandering mode and won’t stop getting up. Tried to give her fish fingers and she got up six times and I had to bring her back to her chair again. She will go to bed in a moment. It’s just after six. Trying to make her eat. I am looking at my camera kit bag to see what’s in it and go through it. Ken Dodd died today.
Testing out the Lavalier microphone and it’s great. I used it on my cell phone and then on my Canon 5D MK11 and the latter especially was crisp and clear. “
Portrait of Noni - in development
To live with dementia?
A monologue.
I Have Lost Myself and Give Me the Key, is a powerful and disturbing compilation from 300+ videos, filmed daily over 30 days, depicting the raw and honest portrait of living with dementia and the blurring of artist process.
If memory is the core of our identity, what happens to our sense of self when it is lost?
Inspired by Carl Dreyer's "The Passion of Joan of Arc" (1928), performances are filmed in extreme close-up to emphasize the actor's emotions and to invoke audience response.
That's what happened.
