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Yes, the SOTA is currently much more advanced.

Give us a try, I think we are what you are looking for https://narrationbox.com

A lot of our customers use us [0] for that, it works pretty well if executed properly. The voiceovers work best as inserts into an existing podcast. If you see the articles of majo…

Yeah, neural codecs are pretty amazing. The most incredible part is that they can do compression well across the temporal domain, something which has been non-trivial.

Their sentence segmentation heuristics were not configured correctly. It's not an inherent limitation of the technology itself. The newer transformer based generators are a bit bet…

Mel + multispeaker vocoder is very much a classic (tacotron era) TTS approach

Since it does the signal processing in the Fourier domain, does this suffer from audio artefacts e.g. hissing in the output? Torch's inverse STFT uses Griffin-Lim which is probabil…

> Recognizes "human" and recognizes "desk". I sit on desk. Does AI mark it as a desk or as a chair? Not an issue if the image segmentation is advanced enough. You can train the mod…

Your average mobile processor doesn't have anywhere near enough processing power to run a state of the art text to speech network in real-time. Most text to speech on mobile hardwa…

For the high end stuff no, but many of the lower tier jobs are under threat.

We used to be in this field too ( https://kloudtrader.com/narwhal ). It is a very crowded market and monetisation is tricky.

You can throw this together pretty quickly using one of the AutoML APIs.

So if I am launching a Spotify/Audible-style music/audiobook streaming platform, how will the pricing work out? Do we pay you instead of the original author for any user uploaded c…

What about TransferWise ewallets?

Do you have any public pricing or startup plans?

Does the accounting system support Canada and other commonwealth countries? Or is this US only?

Some ETFs also allow easy investment in stocks of foreign countries without requiring additional brokerages on behalf of the end user. I presume this does not offer that functional…

I will look into it, Wiki2SSML looks very handy.

It looks great, have you considered adding a visual editor? We have one for our systems: https://narrationbox.com

Are there any free plans or discounts for HN users?

We never expected audio to be this popular either when we built Narration Box :)

Lua is a great language, but the fragmentation between versions makes it difficult to be adopted outside of niche embedded areas. On a side note, we maintain a Lua newsletter but h…

You can try locking down the app, it's not ideal but it is better than nothing: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25664130

A while back I wrote about this https://medium.com/@kloudtrader/reducing-whatsapp-digital-fo... Not sure if it still applies to the latest version of Android and WhatsApp but it mi…

This looks great! Congrats on launching. We used to be in this space too. The most tricky part is performance, especially if you are backtesting against an algorithm instead of man…