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ilyausorov

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About ilyausorov

CTO @ BoldVoice (YC S21)

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    Comment #48852469

    Really awesome work! I've been trying to do some of this real time back and forth voice coaching myself and it's no easy feat. Congrats on the progress.

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    Comment #45588141

    For sure the voice standardization model is not perfect, but it was important for us to do especially for the voice privacy. It’s still pretty early tech.

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    Comment #45585856

    Thanks, we love you too

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    Comment #45585391

    Yeh they seem to be in the same "major" cluster, although Serbian/Croatian, Romanian, Bulgarian, Turkish, Polish and Czech are all close. Turkish and Persian seem to be the nearest…

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    Comment #45585364

    Plotly is great! Much love.

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    Comment #45585354

    Yeh, we would've loved to see that too. It's on our roadmap for sure. Same for some of the other languages with a large amount of unique accents like e.g. French, Chinese, Arabic, …

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    Comment #45584646

    Nothing too secret in there! We anonymized everything and anyway it's just a basic Plotly plot. Feel free to check it out.

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    Comment #45582314

    Good question! It's likely because there are lots of different accents of Spanish that are distinct from each other. Our labels only capture the native language of the speaker righ…

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    Comment #43909850

    Amazing! If you can make it go viral again too, I will love you!

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    Comment #43909351

    We did built two free tools, which are geared towards non-native English speakers. You can find them at https://accentoracle.com and https://accentfilter.com . They're less effecti…

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    Comment #43908765

    Correct, not LLM

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    Comment #43908749

    Indeed yeah that’s one of the key weaknesses of the approach that we’re using. It overrides the speakers cadence and accent while keeping their voice profile / timbre in place. Dif…

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    Comment #43908470

    Was that right? Or what is the correct native language it should have predicted? Note the %s in the accent breakdown section are prediction probabilities

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    Comment #43908454

    What if it was already available? Try it out at https://accentfilter.com !

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    Comment #43907879

    No, the dataset isn't published beyond what you see on the 2D visualization. Sorry.

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    Comment #43907569

    Thanks, we're doing our best!

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    Comment #43907556

    We actually did something like this for non-native English speakers a few months back. Check out https://accentoracle.com (most mind-blowing if you're a non native English speaker)…

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    Comment #43907134

    Indeed, although the inference output of the model is based on the ratings input that we trained it on. And that rating input was done by American English native speakers, so this …

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    Comment #43907086

    That's a fascinating idea! Definitely something to try out for our team. We actively and continuously do all sorts of experiments with our machine learning models to be able to ext…

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    Comment #43907073

    Sure, that's fair. We apply labels that have a connotation of strength based on the distance, but the underlying calculation is indeed based on distance.

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    Comment #43907066

    This and more exciting features are coming to the BoldVoice app soon!

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    Comment #43907062

    For sure, and I don't think we ever use the term default or neutral. The "the American English accent of our expert accent coach Eliza" is just that -- it's one accent. As a learni…