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mahmoudfelfel

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About mahmoudfelfel

Cofounder @ play.ht

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    Comment #42129573

    The current deployed model is English only, we are rolling out a multilingual version later this week!

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    Comment #42129526

    PlayAI (fma PlayHT) founder here, this is a native multiturn voice model that is built for conversations like real-time agents or podcasts. Try it through our playground ( https://…

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    Comment #35338169

    Very soon.

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    Comment #35338134

    The free accounts have 5k words and then you can upgrade to an API-plan from here https://play.ht/app/api-plans

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    Comment #35338106

    Society definitely needs to adapt to this new norm; we are trying to roll this out as safely as possible, but others are not as careful, and this technology will just become more u…

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    Comment #35335419

    We have seen use cases in audiobooks, podcasts, marketing videos, explainer videos, Commercials, and Gaming, among others.

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    Comment #35335404

    Whisper is Speech to Text; we are building Text to Speech LLMs.

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    Comment #35334294

    Yes, we just released that for the UltraRealistic TTS ( https://docs.play.ht/reference/api-getting-started ), and it will soon be added to our Standard voices as well.

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    Comment #35334196

    What is in this demo is a very rate-limited, early version of our new model. We have many mitigations in place to increase the safety of our main product (Play.ht); I mentioned som…

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    Comment #35332177

    We have been seeing some of these genuine use cases: youtube creators, audiobooks, elearning videos, podcasts, commercials, dubbing, and gaming.

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    Comment #35331395

    We have many mitigations in place to increase the safety of this service, I mentioned some of that here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35331310

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    Comment #35331373

    You can try the high-fidelity voice cloning here https://play.ht/voice-cloning/

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    Comment #35331310

    Cofounder here, What you see in the above demo is a very rate-limited demo of our upcoming model. We realize how dangerous this technology can be and have built a lot of mitigation…

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    Comment #33167853

    Everything, the content and the voices are generated by AI. check my other comments for how we did that.

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    Comment #33165218

    Yes, a finetuned GPT3 on Jobs' biography

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    Comment #33165206

    All AI generated.

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    Comment #33164776

    Thank you :) that is the main point of it, to show people what is possible and inspire them to create.