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Re: Show HN: Voicera – Add life-like AI voice dictation to your blogs and articles

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Post by TylerLives »

JZL003 wrote: post #10

Anyone 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.

I don't have an answer to your question but I'm curious about something else: What kind of results would you get if you used one of the paid TTS models to generate a dataset and then trained your model on that dataset? Would it be possible to recreate their model in this way?

Re: Show HN: Voicera – Add life-like AI voice dictation to your blogs and articles

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Post by synesthesiam »

JZL003 wrote: post #10

Anyone 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.

You might give Larynx a try: https://github.com/rhasspy/larynx

Demo: https://youtu.be/hBmhDf8cl0k

(I'm the author)

Re: Show HN: Voicera – Add life-like AI voice dictation to your blogs and articles

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Post by arbobmehmood »

spyder wrote: post #19

Wanted to try but I'm getting: "Invalid SSML request" and on other pages "Insufficient credits.", or just returns the sample voice.

Hello. Can you please send me your registered email ID on contact@voicera.co? We'll see what's the issue.

Re: Show HN: Voicera – Add life-like AI voice dictation to your blogs and articles

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Post by arbobmehmood »

pvinis wrote: post #3

Cool idea, but wouldn't it be more useful as a feature for an RSS reader? No user of mine would come to the website and listen, but if they use a reader for my feed and other feeds, that would be useful for them.

Thanks for the feedback. We'll look into it.

Re: Show HN: Voicera – Add life-like AI voice dictation to your blogs and articles

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Post by arbobmehmood »

sramam wrote: post #11

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?

It's manually generated from our in-house content. :)

Re: Show HN: Voicera – Add life-like AI voice dictation to your blogs and articles

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Post by arbobmehmood »

adz_6891 wrote: post #8

Looks cool, congrats on the launch! Will you guys be doing text to speech in any indian languages? If so would love to see a demo of that!

Thanks for using our app. Voicera currently supports English (India) accent. However, more languages are definitely in the cards.

Re: Show HN: Voicera – Add life-like AI voice dictation to your blogs and articles

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Post by JZL003 »

synesthesiam wrote: post #22
JZL003 wrote: post #10

Anyone 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.

You might give Larynx a try: https://github.com/rhasspy/larynx Demo: https://youtu.be/hBmhDf8cl0k (I'm the author)

That is pretty nice, one of the best collection of voices I've seen and the best interface

Google gives 1 million characters per month free which I don't often go over, but this will be really useful for when I do

I don't want to be unappreciative, it's amazing that this is possible much less free, but when you spend hours listening to it every day, the cracking and warbling do get old. I think there are better models I've heard snippets of but the truly amazing thing about google's is how robust it is to very weird words

(When I tried all the public cloud offering's, IBM's was the marginally nicest AFAICT but it was the most expensive with least free quota)

Re: Show HN: Voicera – Add life-like AI voice dictation to your blogs and articles

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Post by JZL003 »

JZL003 wrote: post #28
synesthesiam wrote: post #22

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You might give Larynx a try: https://github.com/rhasspy/larynx Demo: https://youtu.be/hBmhDf8cl0k (I'm the author)

That is pretty nice, one of the best collection of voices I've seen and the best interface Google gives 1 million characters per month free which I don't often go over, but this will be really useful for when I do I don't want to be unappreciative, it's amazing that this is possible much less free, but when you spend hours listening to it every day, the cracking and warbling do get old. I think there are better model…

Yeah https://cloud.ibm.com/catalog/services/text-to-speech it's so smooth

Re: Show HN: Voicera – Add life-like AI voice dictation to your blogs and articles

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Post by chakspak »

kkielhofner wrote: post #12

I 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…

I was thinking the same. I hear this company name all the time at my work, so when I saw the title, I did a double-take and thought there was a typo. They even have AI voice command, so I briefly thought it was the same company.
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