Congratulations on launching!
A question - in the sample dictation on the site, it adds a voice annotation for "features" and "pricing categories". These weren't encoded in the HTML. How does it figure that?
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#12I submitted this comment on ProductHunt too but I wanted to make sure you see it:
Looks great but FYI there's a long-standing healthcare company that's been in business for over a decade with various speech products/features named "Vocera"[0]. I'm not a lawyer but they have many trademarks on Vocera and the standard is generally "likely to cause confusion". You're probably well in that territory with a speech product that sounds almost identical and is one letter off. When Googling "voicera" Google replaces/suggests "Vocera". There's a pretty decent chance you'll be hearing from them.
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#13I submitted this comment on ProductHunt too but I wanted to make sure you see it: Looks great but FYI there's a long-standing healthcare company that's been in business for over a decade with various speech products/features named "Vocera"[0]. I'm not a lawyer but they have many trademarks on Vocera and the standard is generally "likely to cause confusion". You're probably well in that territory with a speech product…
You must be fun at parties.
Re: Show HN: Voicera – Add life-like AI voice dictation to your blogs and articles
#14I assume there are a number of Youtube channels doing something like this already - I occasionally notice that an otherwise well-researched and presented item has a non-English idiom - such that even a fluent speaker would self-correct. I guess the idea is to write one and just "release" it in many languages. The point of all that is, yeah, computer generated voice has gotten to the point I need dumb mistakes to real…
And yet apps that leverage this are quasi absent. The Firefox screen reader widget is good but the voices are limited and the functionality limited to well formatted pages. E-book software seems to not integrate this tech either.
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#15The word 'dictation' is confusing here. I think you want 'recitation', 'vocalization', 'narration' or just 'reading'. Dictation is speech-to-text, this is text-to-speech.
that’s what the software does, it dictates the text…
Re: Show HN: Voicera – Add life-like AI voice dictation to your blogs and articles
#16How does it compare to something like AWS Polly?
I noticed AWS blogs all have this feature in recent times which is cool.
Re: Show HN: Voicera – Add life-like AI voice dictation to your blogs and articles
#17How does it compare to something like AWS Polly? I noticed AWS blogs all have this feature in recent times which is cool.
It seems to be the exact same voice
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#18Anyone have a nice opensource/pretrained TTS model they like using? I use google's wavenet TTS heavily to create 'audiobooks' (especially from archive.org which is great for old books). But it's pretty expensive I periodically look for new versions and, while the examples sound better, they fall down really hard on other text.
Mozilla has a pretty good open-source TTS library. In general high-quality pre-trained TTS models are surprisingly hard to find--I'd also be curious to see if anyone knows any good alternatives
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#19Wanted to try but I'm getting: "Invalid SSML request" and on other pages "Insufficient credits.", or just returns the sample voice.
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#20The word 'dictation' is confusing here. I think you want 'recitation', 'vocalization', 'narration' or just 'reading'. Dictation is speech-to-text, this is text-to-speech.
that’s what the software does, it dictates the text…
No, it does the exact opposite.
Dictation is writing down what someone is saying.
This is software that says what someone writes down.