00:00Hello, it's July. It's middle of July. It's very sunny and hot out there and
00:06it's time for this month's vlog. This is vlog number 10 and they stop at vlog
00:13number 12 just so there's been a whole year of it in a couple months. Seems the
00:18right way to go. And what has been happening in the world of DC Tiger Music
00:25and it's continuing unsuccessful career. Well I put a bunch of stuff up on Bandcamp
00:38last week, various projects I've been working on during the year and then
00:43forgetting about. So I went back in first to Suno then Bandcamp and I've tidied up
00:53a few different random AI ideas I've been having. Most of those are now
00:58complete and available for download for free on Bandcamp in a range of experimental
01:08musical genres that I would not normally attempt to make music in but gave it a go.
01:15so it's a mixed bag. If you're interested in that sort of thing you know where to go.
01:22Oh there's the scandal. The scandal of the fake band. What are they called? The Velvet
01:29something. Not the on the Bell. Oh you know the one I mean. Fake band on Spotify. Tens of
01:35thousands of views. And people went, they sound like they're artificial intelligence and
01:39they were and I think that was created by Suno. More successfully than the bits I've
01:44been doing. But if you're interested in that sort of thing I still highly
01:49recommend messing around on AI software even if you don't like it. No if you don't
01:56like it that's daft. If you're curious I recommend messing around with it. The
02:01results are never quite what you think they're gonna be. I've also continued to
02:07collect occasional pebbles for the Bank of Hastings and Robber. Now 9 or 10. I do
02:15need to get the keyboard out and make some music and send those off at some point to
02:21any people who have deposited their pebbles with holes in in my made-up bank at some
02:28point. Not sure anyone, no one's got in touch and said where's my music so I don't
02:32think there's any real hurry or bother. Apart from that, there's been, you may be watching this video on
02:46Dailymotion. You may be watching this video on YouTube. You're more likely to be
02:50watching this video on YouTube because that's where I have followers. And there's
02:55a couple of developments in the last week on YouTube which I've found quite
03:00amusing. One of which is the inspiration feature is where YouTube uses AI to look
03:13at the content on your video channel and then come up with suggestions of other
03:19videos you may wish to make based on the videos you've made so far. And if I'm on
03:27YouTube Studio and I click on inspiration, it at that point generates four or five or
03:30six suggestions. You get a title, you get a breakdown of things you may wish to
03:39explore. And you also get a small, sometimes you get a small handful of
03:48thumbnails you might use like AI generated imagery. For my channel mostly what YouTube
03:59inspiration suggests is to do with the most viewed content on my channel which
04:05will be either fire truck related or related to the Channel 4 television
04:17program from the 1990s, The Big Breakfast because it's a bit of that on my channel or
04:22Christmas Santa Claus theme stuff. But sometimes it picks up on the fact that
04:28there are a few videos on my channel from our old band Duplo or my brother's music as
04:37Frontier Telegraph and the Crowned Spider or those bits of our friend Lee and his
04:41Rashomon project. A few other bands we work with. We've got little clips on YouTube and
04:46sometimes it thinks of ideas. It thinks they're ideas of follow-up
04:52solutions. So but it it doesn't appear to look at the content of those videos, only
04:59this only perhaps the title. So for instance it will say how about a deep dive
05:10into Frontier Telegraph and how their band developed and what their lyrics are
05:15about and their environmental concerns. This is an instrumental electronic project of
05:20my brother's. No lyrics, no band. And it comes up with a load of thumbnail
05:27suggestions. Sometimes they are high-tech and involve circuit boards or cities at
05:35night, that sort of Blade Runner thing. Sometimes there are pictures of the American
05:41Wild West as it was, I suppose, the Midwest, old-timey looking groups with
05:49banjos who look like the band maybe from, oh you know, the band, Robbie Robertson and
05:57that lot. And so again, nothing to do with the actual content of the videos. They just
06:03pick up the word Frontier and think, ah, there must be a Frontier band. So that's fun. And
06:09there's been the occasional suggestion, because our old band was called Duplo, they're like, oh, what should, maybe we could do a story about
06:16Duplo, so you end up with a lot of Lego Greek imagery thumbnails. I try to save things where I can and I've got a folder on Facebook in the Dizzy Tiger Music Company Facebook group where I'm saving the best of them. The Dizzy Tiger Music Company Facebook group has been around for years. A few of them have been
06:22a few of my friends were on it and then at some point, Facebook did something where they
06:44around for years a few of our friends were on it and then at some point
06:50Facebook did something where they reformatted the group's idea and
06:56literally deleted all the members from groups so the Dizzy Tiger one I'm not
07:03literally the only person on there which is fine because I don't use it apart from now to store these thumbnails on
07:10but yes there is a Dizzy Tiger music company Facebook group should you wish to
07:13be the second person to join that group or to rejoin that group if you were there
07:17anyway not as bad as when myspace managed to migrate its service and delete absolutely
07:25every piece of music on myspace that was clever so that's that that's YouTube
07:31inspiration the other thing that YouTube is now doing which you'll be able to do
07:35with this video if you're watching on YouTube and not on Dailymotion is they've
07:40introduced automatic audio dubbing in other languages so YouTube would
07:47describe as you may know when you're watching a video like this now you can
07:52click on a there's an icon at the bottom on the side where you can put the
07:57subtitles on a lot YouTube describes the words that I say as being in English
08:02brackets United States language and that's how you would see the subtitles but I they
08:11are now starting to roll out this automatic AI generated audio dub so you can now
08:19listen to this video and other spoken videos going forward in let me try and get
08:24them all French German Spanish Portuguese Italian Japanese Hindi polish there's one
08:40more did I say in the news then and that's one so nine different languages so far they
08:48will probably be more because when they announced it a few couple of months ago
08:50there's only gonna be a very polish to it there'll be more coming basically if
08:54you're interested and fire on your own and watching some YouTube from the
08:58settings icon and you've been over in the corner depending on what device you're
09:02watching on and you can click on audio track and it will bring up a drop down of
09:07of those languages if you click on one of them you'll hear me automatically dug into
09:13that language better or worse however accurately or not and this should be a
09:21function that will now apply to any forthcoming upload that has clear enough
09:28verbal audio to dub so I suspect if I put up a song with vocals it may not do I'm not
09:41sure if that's gonna be able to sort of highlight the this the word side of it
09:49to duck we'll find out next time I have put a song up that's got vocals on it it
09:57doesn't yet the function doesn't yet go back and dub over previously uploaded
10:05videos I've been on YouTube for 19 years a long time got nearly 2,000 videos on here
10:18so that would take a lot of effort I think for all those or at least all the
10:27appropriate ones to then be retrospectively dubbed into nine or more languages but it
10:33might happen and so videos from nearly 20 years ago of us down the pub or even
10:41older videos that I've rescued from VHS or camera tapes or our old band
10:47rehearsals may yet reappear dubbed into other languages which I'm quite I kind of hope
10:56that happens I'm kind of curious to see especially how the how the the programming
11:03would it would deal with say two or three or more voices chatting cross cutting we'll
11:12see if that happens in the meantime to try and welcome our international language
11:21speaking friends I've recorded nine short introductory pieces telling a viewer how
11:30how to click and hear those in the language they wish to hear and which I'm
11:39going to chop up and put on playlists again if you're watching on YouTube go onto the
11:44playlists on my channel and there will be a little introductory video for each of
11:49those nine so far languages on a playlist assuming they work
11:58other than that not much else plan going forward like I say I might do two more vlogs to make a year
12:10well this might be it and maybe nothing else happens
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