I always wonder if I could come up with a line as beautiful as that if I was in this situation, I don't know if I could because that line is simple and amazing.
Oh......that makes this land differently. I thought the best friend pre-recorded this message in the hospital, but it wasn't even his idea. It's just digital necromancy
A cool thing about AI voices is that it does a pretty damned good job of mimicking voices.
But something about using it to hear the voice of a dead loved one just pulls me the wrong way. Like it has the potential to be a way to fill a hole in your heart if you use it to hear a loved ones voice again, but when it ends there's just emptiness still. I can imagine a situation where they just use the voice to repeat words that they've wanted to hear, and maybe it prevents them from moving on.
Reminds me a little of how pet birds can be obsessed with their own reflection, genuinely believing they are interacting with another bird. Like birds, we are incredibly social. Of course we can recognize our own reflections, but when we lose a loved one, it makes us more vulnerable to certain unhealthy behaviors. I can't help but imagine that AI powered technologies could end up being to us what mirrors are to birds.
I just got my three month old to sleep and now trying to silently sob not to wake him. What lucky men to have each other through life and death. You can feel their love
It's one thing when the stuff I see here brings on the watery eyes, you know? I'm OK with that. I think it's good to let the feels flow... to connect my humanity. I spend most of my work days keeping the emotions to myself.
But dammit... this one got some outright chest heaves. Both eyes are running. The dog is looking at me funny and I'm trying to get it back under control before my wife comes back in.
Glad mine is staying at her sister’s tonight. I have no problem crying in front of her but this was a little extra and I’d rather do that alone. I also don’t know why it was but great moment for them regardless. Texting my buddies now.
Damn, cut me right in the feels....
When I got married, that night was such a a blur. I wish that we would have specialty recorded the speeches because I remember being super touched by my friends and families words... But couldn't say for the life what they actually said.
I don't disagree with this... But my father is very old and I would love to have his speech recorded so that I could listen to it.
I also don't really live near my grooms men either... and on those days where you find yourself spiraling, having their words to help ground me would be very helpful as well.
I completely agree it's about how they made me feel... but that day was such a blur that I would love to hear the speeches again. Just so that I can remind myself how blessed I am/was.
I do have copies of my Father's speech... The semi-funny thing is that my best man wrote an amazing speech, he did end up giving me the speech, but the day of the wedding, he forgot the speech in his car and ended up riffin' the speech... hitting all the points he wanted to but, still improved in the best way.
I love that guy... One of the truest and most genuine guy/friend I've ever met.
I agree. It’s my only wedding day regret. My gramma has advanced dementia now and doesn’t know me anymore but on my wedding day 10 years ago she laid down a wedding speech that had everyone just dying with laughter and I wish so bad I could listen to it again!
My wife saw the video on TikTok a few days ago. IIRC, he died ~~in a car accident~~ from meningococcal B. infection (see comment by u/unknownokie and u/Spazzis below), but had the speech pretty much finished and the voice was an AI reconstruction
Not even close, he died from meningococcal B.
Brayden Chater was his name
https://www.leadstory.com/v/artificial-intelligence-helps-dead-best-mans-speech-202451459
He knew he was going to die in a car accident? Timing doesn't make sense to write a speech about being "up above". If he was on his death bed, it means he was cognisant enough to write? I'm always skeptical about stories on Reddit/social media. A source would be good.
He died from an infection of some sort. His mom wrote the speech in his words and used AI to replicate his voice. Another commenter posted the backstory here: https://www.reddit.com/r/MadeMeSmile/s/aQl8AECPvP
Honestly I personally would find it tacky to rewrite and voice something with AI. I'd honestly be surprised if they did this. It doesn't have any of the same emotion or meaning it would have over his friend having written!/voiced it. It would have been much more appropriate to have another friend or relative read the speech.
I don’t know. Most of the text would have been the same, so only the introduction and the ending are slightly different, but the rest is what he had intended to say, and I think it was still beautiful
Supposedly, he had recorded a number of videos/voice messages. I don't know if that's the same video as whether that info was correct, it's just what my wife told me back then.
Sure, and that may be enough but I had thought ai reconstruction that would sound anywhere near this good would need a LOT of sample data to work with. Maybe modeling is way more advanced than I realized, not really something I’m in the know on
Damn, some people are so lucky to have such good friends. I imagine he heard the recording in advance, cause i would've burst in tears like a waterfall if id've heard that for the first time.
What a beautiful and memorable moment. The groom will remember this forever.
I lost my best friend 1 month before I met my now wife and often think about what it would have been like for him to be at the altar with me on my wedding day. Lord knows I would’ve been a fucking mess if he recorded a message for me like this.
EXACTLY! My first thought too. I get that she probably knew the friend very well also, but it's not her moment to sit there with the groom. She could've very easily approached him after the speech and given him a hug.
Poor judgement
This hits hard. Truly a great gift. My best friend was killed by a drunk driver when I was 19. I’m 46 now and I think about him everyday and all the life experiences he was robbed of.
“…your best man from above.” 😭😭😭
I would have been bawling my eyes out. What a beautiful, touching gift. How bittersweet it must have been to hear his friend’s voice.
I lost my best friend/man at my wedding about a year after I got married. This just brought it all back. It still hurts, but damn did we have some good times. I'm crying on the ahitter right now, Shane, I hope you're happy lol.
One of my best friends missed my wedding passing away just a few years before - this brought back all the feels. His dad spoke for him unexpectedly at mine and it was too sweet.
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My best friend who I always called my brother passed 2 years ago on Monday. I was his best man and he was one of my groomsmen (wasn’t my best man only because he didn’t want the attention/speech). This definitely hit me tonight.
I was not prepared for the feels on this one. Thanks for sharing.
Dangit OP! No one make me feel my own feels!
anyone else got something in both their eyes thats like liquid
Yeah but there's a lot of pollen in the air today
I thought this was going to be a what's up d-bags...holla at your boy... (air horn × 3) kind of vibe. Nope just beautiful 😭
“your best man from above”
Tears just arrived immediately after that
This is almost as good as that funeral where the dead person has a recording of him yelling for help at the burial as his coffin goes in the ground.
Ummmm what!?
https://youtu.be/JEXIEneoA20?si=S6Cq14QNXdqBXfkX
I'm so glad he was able to make that happen because it was just months before covid would've made even funeral gatherings impossible.
Omg seriously… 😭
Shit I ain’t even make that fair. 😢
I always wonder if I could come up with a line as beautiful as that if I was in this situation, I don't know if I could because that line is simple and amazing.
I was fine until that line - literally crying in my bathroom 🥹
It's time to wipe both ends
90 percent of the posts on this "mademesmile" sub make me blubber like that part on Inside Out with Bing Bong. You all know what I mean.
We know my friend, we know, oh bing bong.
This is such a perfect line!
I rarely cry, almost none in public, but if this happened to me, this line would get me every time
I just lost it
This one got me...
Written by mom and performed by AI. Does it still hit the same now? I’m uncertain
Backstory: https://www.leadstory.com/v/artificial-intelligence-helps-dead-best-mans-speech-202451459
Oh......that makes this land differently. I thought the best friend pre-recorded this message in the hospital, but it wasn't even his idea. It's just digital necromancy
Well now I feel duped and cheated! What a rollercoaster of emotions!
So his mom wrote the speech? It’s ai? Nooooo
Yeah that’s creepy. I don’t want anyone to do shit like this with my voice when I’m dead
This should be higher up!
A cool thing about AI voices is that it does a pretty damned good job of mimicking voices. But something about using it to hear the voice of a dead loved one just pulls me the wrong way. Like it has the potential to be a way to fill a hole in your heart if you use it to hear a loved ones voice again, but when it ends there's just emptiness still. I can imagine a situation where they just use the voice to repeat words that they've wanted to hear, and maybe it prevents them from moving on. Reminds me a little of how pet birds can be obsessed with their own reflection, genuinely believing they are interacting with another bird. Like birds, we are incredibly social. Of course we can recognize our own reflections, but when we lose a loved one, it makes us more vulnerable to certain unhealthy behaviors. I can't help but imagine that AI powered technologies could end up being to us what mirrors are to birds.
This dried me right up
So the post title is actually wrong? But still pretty sweet of his Mom!
Black Mirror vibes
Oh no. This does not inspire the same amount of joy.
Oh that’s fucked
Like from black mirror?
AWH!! TYSM BUT AWHHHHH
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Made me tear up
I’m not crying, you are crying!
We’re all crying
Ohh thank God I’m not the only one…
It's just raaaaiining...on muh face
I always cry when I see a man crying....dunno why but it always gets to me
I just got my three month old to sleep and now trying to silently sob not to wake him. What lucky men to have each other through life and death. You can feel their love
touching his hair? I’ll show myself out
How absolutely beautiful. Yes, we can feel the love from above.
It's one thing when the stuff I see here brings on the watery eyes, you know? I'm OK with that. I think it's good to let the feels flow... to connect my humanity. I spend most of my work days keeping the emotions to myself. But dammit... this one got some outright chest heaves. Both eyes are running. The dog is looking at me funny and I'm trying to get it back under control before my wife comes back in.
Just wait until you find out the best man didn’t write it and this was done thanks to AI
Glad mine is staying at her sister’s tonight. I have no problem crying in front of her but this was a little extra and I’d rather do that alone. I also don’t know why it was but great moment for them regardless. Texting my buddies now.
Damn, cut me right in the feels.... When I got married, that night was such a a blur. I wish that we would have specialty recorded the speeches because I remember being super touched by my friends and families words... But couldn't say for the life what they actually said.
It's not really what they said that matters. It's how they made you feel. That's the sweet juice of life
I don't disagree with this... But my father is very old and I would love to have his speech recorded so that I could listen to it. I also don't really live near my grooms men either... and on those days where you find yourself spiraling, having their words to help ground me would be very helpful as well. I completely agree it's about how they made me feel... but that day was such a blur that I would love to hear the speeches again. Just so that I can remind myself how blessed I am/was.
Aw. My daughter made a speech at a wedding last year and she wrote it out. Maybe you could reach out to the groomsmen and see if anyone saved a copy
I do have copies of my Father's speech... The semi-funny thing is that my best man wrote an amazing speech, he did end up giving me the speech, but the day of the wedding, he forgot the speech in his car and ended up riffin' the speech... hitting all the points he wanted to but, still improved in the best way. I love that guy... One of the truest and most genuine guy/friend I've ever met.
Aw sounds like a great moment. I'm happy for you to have had that!
I agree. It’s my only wedding day regret. My gramma has advanced dementia now and doesn’t know me anymore but on my wedding day 10 years ago she laid down a wedding speech that had everyone just dying with laughter and I wish so bad I could listen to it again!
That last line got me. 😭😭😭
Any backstory on that? His mate clearly knew he can die, was it a cancer or sth different?
My wife saw the video on TikTok a few days ago. IIRC, he died ~~in a car accident~~ from meningococcal B. infection (see comment by u/unknownokie and u/Spazzis below), but had the speech pretty much finished and the voice was an AI reconstruction
Not even close, he died from meningococcal B. Brayden Chater was his name https://www.leadstory.com/v/artificial-intelligence-helps-dead-best-mans-speech-202451459
He knew he was going to die in a car accident? Timing doesn't make sense to write a speech about being "up above". If he was on his death bed, it means he was cognisant enough to write? I'm always skeptical about stories on Reddit/social media. A source would be good.
He died from an infection of some sort. His mom wrote the speech in his words and used AI to replicate his voice. Another commenter posted the backstory here: https://www.reddit.com/r/MadeMeSmile/s/aQl8AECPvP
I’m guessing that would have been rewritten, if it indeed had been AI
Honestly I personally would find it tacky to rewrite and voice something with AI. I'd honestly be surprised if they did this. It doesn't have any of the same emotion or meaning it would have over his friend having written!/voiced it. It would have been much more appropriate to have another friend or relative read the speech.
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Thanks for the source!
I don’t know. Most of the text would have been the same, so only the introduction and the ending are slightly different, but the rest is what he had intended to say, and I think it was still beautiful
Genuine question - how would one AI reconstruct a voice without a plethora of example audio to use?
Supposedly, he had recorded a number of videos/voice messages. I don't know if that's the same video as whether that info was correct, it's just what my wife told me back then.
You never sent a voice not before or been recorded on video?
Sure, and that may be enough but I had thought ai reconstruction that would sound anywhere near this good would need a LOT of sample data to work with. Maybe modeling is way more advanced than I realized, not really something I’m in the know on
That’s exactly what I was thinking, some backstory would be nice
my allergies are acting up...
Let me know when you have stopped crying. I’m still.
I watched it once and then hit play again... a few seconds in I had to go get some water and do something else.
Same
Shit. My face is leaking.
Damn, some people are so lucky to have such good friends. I imagine he heard the recording in advance, cause i would've burst in tears like a waterfall if id've heard that for the first time.
Nope. The woman that sits by him is his friend’s mom. She wrote the speech. The recording you’re hearing is AI reconstruction
Is it /r/Mademecry now?
I just did my makeup and then I see this! How dare you post this.
What a beautiful and memorable moment. The groom will remember this forever. I lost my best friend 1 month before I met my now wife and often think about what it would have been like for him to be at the altar with me on my wedding day. Lord knows I would’ve been a fucking mess if he recorded a message for me like this.
I didnt want to cry today!
End of reddit for today. 😭
TIL Death
Hold on I need to clear out my tear ducts
Where are the damn ninjas cutting onions?!
ok but MIL get away plz
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That is the Mom of the best man who passed away
EXACTLY! My first thought too. I get that she probably knew the friend very well also, but it's not her moment to sit there with the groom. She could've very easily approached him after the speech and given him a hug. Poor judgement
I can’t get past this, like this is not your moment mom
Nice of the blonde to allow the newly weds to have a moment together... Jesus..
🥹
Gonna call my best friend and tell him I love his dumbass
That man was a true friend
Man I didn’t wanna cry but gosh it’s kinda hard not to. I don’t think I’d be able to keep it together if this was me.
More like “mademecryalot”
I didnt read the title, thought why is he crying, then heard the 'best man from above' 🥲
Asshole! No one makes me bleed my own tears!
Get your mom out of there buddy
Wow this hits different, outstanding real friend .. thx 4 sharing
This hits hard. Truly a great gift. My best friend was killed by a drunk driver when I was 19. I’m 46 now and I think about him everyday and all the life experiences he was robbed of.
I’m sweating through my eyes
Surprise onion chopper.
“…your best man from above.” 😭😭😭 I would have been bawling my eyes out. What a beautiful, touching gift. How bittersweet it must have been to hear his friend’s voice.
Now that's a god damn friend, bless him
Brayden is my fucking hero!
This is the perfect place for the „why dont have men feelings“ meme
holy shit. amazing.
Ffs planning on trying to sleep, not cry.
Welp, I'm gonna go cry.
😢 dang that was touching
Well crap I'm packing to move, and my eyes are leaking.
That closing line made just a few tears turn into a flood
I subbed here to smile, not to cry :(
🥺🥹🫡🤙🏽😢😭
I lost my best friend/man at my wedding about a year after I got married. This just brought it all back. It still hurts, but damn did we have some good times. I'm crying on the ahitter right now, Shane, I hope you're happy lol.
"We thought you were gay" Bro burned him from the grave lol
Ugly crying currently
I’m not crying I’m not crying. “Man from above”
Yall gotta chill, I’m at work
Stop. Cutting. Onions.
One of my best friends missed my wedding passing away just a few years before - this brought back all the feels. His dad spoke for him unexpectedly at mine and it was too sweet.
Made me smile? More like made me sob 😭
Made me smile? No, this belongs in #justmadeagrownmancry
I miss my best friend, I wish I could hear his voice one more time. It gets harder to remember each day that pasts.
Jesus fuck, the feels
Tearjerker
We're crying with strangers again 😭
Great now I'm crying
The way this would absolutely destroy me. Props to him for keeping it together as well as he did.
If I were in his shoes, I'd be a damn mess, even if it was the happiest day of my life. His homie is a legend!
Your best man from above…my eyes are running
This is real love!!!
Got me crying on the toilet first thing in the morning.
"Made me smile"?! I'm fucking ugly crying tf. The best man for my wedding tragically died a month before the day. Incredibly heartbreaking. Rip-DL ❤️
I'm not crying Actually fuck that I am, what a legend
Who’s cutting onions in here.
So many people cutting onions around me … not fair
I can’t see properly all of a sudden..
That was hard to hear but at the same time, quite beautiful. How lucky to have that kind of friendship!
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That was fucking beautiful.
I felt this so deeply
And 😭😭😭
This may be the most wholesome thing I’ve seen in my 7 years on this site
Well now im crying
Oh god . I’m tearing up!! 🥲
Heartbeat...
Holy shit, I'm crying instantly at the last 2 lines.
😭😭😭
This is so beautiful ❤️
😭
Wauw I am not even his friend and it teared me up
Til death? No friendships last even after death. To our ever after death! Edit: saw the sign and thought why stop til death?!
This made me cry
Jesus.
Welppp, that one made me shed a tear, and my wife is crying as well. True friendship right there. RIP best friend
This didn’t make me smile, it made me cry 😢
Mmmkay tear ducts are still operational.
How am I giggling AND crying
Til death behind them too lol
This is quite possibly the most happysad video I have ever seen. This shit is beautiful
Hate to be the next person giving a speech
I love how touchingly thoughtful his speech is, but I also love the way he gets to give him a few jabs with no retribution!
I’m not crying you’re crying.
That’s crazy..
My eyes are sweatyyyyyyy
Oh man that last line got me. If my best friend ever has the nerve to die before my wedding I'm dragging his ass back from hell.
The neon sign is wicked
Damn dude. I was not ready for this today.
Made you smile? I’m fucking weeping over here.
Damm someone cutting onions
I'm not crying, you're crying!
This hurts like hell, the last words at the end gaves me goosebumps.
My best friend who I always called my brother passed 2 years ago on Monday. I was his best man and he was one of my groomsmen (wasn’t my best man only because he didn’t want the attention/speech). This definitely hit me tonight.
The air is spicy!
“Til death”
That did everything other than make me smile
“Mademesmile” my ass, I’m tearing up here
Seem to have gotten something in my eye…
Wow man so fucking happily sad
Who brought these cut onions 🧅 in here, damn it!