Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Computing/2023 December 16

= December 16 =

The name of the TTS
Hi, I've noticed that the following narrator's voice has been produced by AI: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/RwFbYIC_nnc

It is quite good. Does anyone spot what software has been used? 147.235.202.86 (talk) 10:25, 16 December 2023 (UTC)


 * How can you tell it is artificially generated? My impression is that the narrator is human but that much care has been taken in the editing of the audio, possibly using the best segments of several takes and removing unnecessary pauses. Or the narrator is exceptionally skillful. --Lambiam 11:37, 18 December 2023 (UTC)

Hyperlinking text in an FB post
I perused a few ways to hyperlink custom text in a post on my Facebook account (like "John Doe" in "hello from John Doe"), but none works, particularly since FB reportedly doesn't support HTML formatting. Is there any other way to hyperlink a piece of text in that regard? 212.180.235.46 (talk) 22:11, 16 December 2023 (UTC)


 * It's not really clear what you're asking for. If you want to link/tag John Doe, just insert an @ symbol ahead of the name and it will get linked (and they will be notified that you tagged them). FB is pretty good at identifying names and suggesting the link/tag, but the @ forces it. As for more broad hyperlinking, I think and hope that the answer is no. Given the explosion in fake news and phishing scams, the last thing that should be allowed is hiding a malicious URL within safe looking text. Links to websites follow a pretty set formula on FB and that's probably for the best. Matt Deres (talk) 18:15, 18 December 2023 (UTC)
 * I was asking for the latter - for example linking a Wikipedia userpage to John Doe rather than @. But I understand that this appears to be anti-fake news measure, thanks. 212.180.235.46 (talk) 10:38, 19 December 2023 (UTC)
 * I haven't been on FB forever, but I just went there and tried just pasting a URL in the text and that works fine. I think what you want is rather than to paste the URL like: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Computing to have some text like Wikipedia Computing Ref Desk I think you used to be able to do that but it seems you can't (or at least I didn't see how to do it). My guess is this is more for security than fake news. If you obscure the URL you are going to you could say it was a link to Wikipedia but in reality it could be to a site that had malware. --MadScientistX11 (talk) 20:28, 20 December 2023 (UTC)
 * I see, fair enough. 212.180.235.46 (talk) 17:31, 22 December 2023 (UTC)