Talk:Retrieval-based Voice Conversion

	This article is within the scope of WikiProject Software, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of software on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the discussion and see a list of open tasks.SoftwareWikipedia:WikiProject SoftwareTemplate:WikiProject Softwaresoftware
Low	This article has been rated as Low-importance on the project's importance scale.
	This article is supported by WikiProject Computing.

Significant re-write required

This article requires a significant re-write:

First off, while RVC is *ALSO* a specific algorithm on how to train a voice model, it's mainly a special *FORMAT* of voice model, akin to how WAV is a special *FORMAT* of audio file.
Second, this article links not to the original RVC 1.0 or 2.0, but to one of a number of simple GUI frontend forks making use of RVC, and uses this fork's release date as the date of release for RVC. The original RVC 1.0 and 2.0, without a GUI, were released in February and Autumn of 2023, respectively.
Third, this article acts like RVC, and specifically this GUI frontend, would be the only format or software for voice conversion, when in fact voice.ai (with their own proprietary format) opened their final beta version for the public in early-October 2022, as the very first publically available service for voice conversion which didn't require a subscription costing several hundred or even several thousand Dollars a month (depending upon your company's taxable revenue, as was the case with commercial services such as ReSpeecher).
Fourth, there are also other frontends to use the RVC format, namely Replay.
Finally, the entire article fails to clearly describe why we should care, i. e. the two decisive advantages the RVC format has compared to competitor formats: a.) You need far less source material for a robust voice, and b.) multi-language capability is already built in, so you can use voices in the RVC format for more languages than English, Mandarine, or Korean only. --2003:DA:CF2E:4539:F0CC:8548:5B09:43DD (talk) 03:53, 21 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]