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Re: Show HN: A free online British accent generator for instant voice conversion

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Post by dpoloncsak »

pjc50 wrote: post #2

British accent review time! "Nature Show Host": not David Attenborough, surprisingly "Compelling Lady": nothing beats a Jet2 Holiday "Upset Girl": this is more the voiceover that would be used on depressing animal charity adverts "Magnetic Man": you can't fool me, that's an American "Patient Man": patience gives you reverb. The word "British" is spoken with a very non-British accent. Not to be all Henry Higgins, but…

I just want to be able to speak like James Acaster.

Kettering accent generator when :(

Re: Show HN: A free online British accent generator for instant voice conversion

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Post by gwbas1c »

I thought this was going to convert my spoken voice to a British accent. When I opened the link, I was quite disappointed to see that it's just text-to-speech.

In the late 1990s I had text-to-speech on my run-of-the-mill 100mhz Pentium running Windows 98, with 8MB RAM. I could select the voice too.

It was also good enough to read my high school reading assignment, which I recorded to cassette and then listened to on a long drive.

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So, what's novel about this site? As a learning project, it's pretty cool! (And I hope you built some good skills and enjoyed yourself making it.) Otherwise, there isn't much difference from what we had 30 years ago on much simpler hardware.

Re: Show HN: A free online British accent generator for instant voice conversion

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Post by rjmunro »

What do you mean "Everything runs entirely within your browser."? The audio comes from https://se-data-us-oss.oss-us-west-1.aliyuncs.com/audioconve......

I have seen speech synthesis entirely in the browser, e.g. https://github.com/diffusionstudio/vits-web

It works quite well but is a bit slow to start because you have to download the models each time.

Re: Show HN: A free online British accent generator for instant voice conversion

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Post by abanana »

happymellon wrote: post #6
pjc50 wrote: post #2

British accent review time! "Nature Show Host": not David Attenborough, surprisingly "Compelling Lady": nothing beats a Jet2 Holiday "Upset Girl": this is more the voiceover that would be used on depressing animal charity adverts "Magnetic Man": you can't fool me, that's an American "Patient Man": patience gives you reverb. The word "British" is spoken with a very non-British accent. Not to be all Henry Higgins, but…

Patient man, sounds a little Welsh, maybe some Indian twangs in there too?

To me (I'm Welsh) the Indian twang sounds clear, but there are some odd similarities between Welsh and Indian accents.

Upset Girl isn't "natural sounding". It's a voice I feel I've heard in AI demos before.

Re: Show HN: A free online British accent generator for instant voice conversion

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Post by happymellon »

abanana wrote: post #44
happymellon wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Patient man, sounds a little Welsh, maybe some Indian twangs in there too?

To me (I'm Welsh) the Indian twang sounds clear, but there are some odd similarities between Welsh and Indian accents. Upset Girl isn't "natural sounding". It's a voice I feel I've heard in AI demos before.

Upset girl is dodgy American imitation of nondescript home counties.

The sort of foreign "actresses trying to be Lara Croft" sort of thing.

Re: Show HN: A free online British accent generator for instant voice conversion

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Post by happymellon »

abanana wrote: post #44
happymellon wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Patient man, sounds a little Welsh, maybe some Indian twangs in there too?

To me (I'm Welsh) the Indian twang sounds clear, but there are some odd similarities between Welsh and Indian accents. Upset Girl isn't "natural sounding". It's a voice I feel I've heard in AI demos before.

I think the Welsh for me is when Patient Man says "audio".

Re: Show HN: A free online British accent generator for instant voice conversion

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Post by [deleted] »

bossyTeacher wrote: post #31
dghf wrote: post #19

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This is true, but you could also say the same about the phrases "English accent" and "Scottish accent" -- a Scouse accent sounds nothing like RP, and a Highland lilt is very different from the accent in the Gorbals. And the Appalachian accents of Justified sound very different to the Mid-Atlantic accent of Frasier Crane -- yet to me, as an outsider, there is still an indefinable "Americanness" common to them all.

> there is still an indefinable "Americanness" common to them all I believe it is more of self fulfilling prophecy imo. Some quality you treat as American AFTER you learn it is an american accent rather than something you see as american before (or regardless of whether) you even know if it is american

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Re: Show HN: A free online British accent generator for instant voice conversion

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Post by ogogmad »

jjgreen wrote: post #21
pjc50 wrote: post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I think the phrase that's missing is "British Recieved Pronunciation"

That "RP" really gets my goat, received from whom? Some snot-nosed southern twat it would seem.

Is reverse classism still classism?

Re: Show HN: A free online British accent generator for instant voice conversion

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Post by jjgreen »

ogogmad wrote: post #48
jjgreen wrote: post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That "RP" really gets my goat, received from whom? Some snot-nosed southern twat it would seem.

Is reverse classism still classism?

Not sure where you got classism from, I've got a number of posh southern public schoolboy friends; after all, it's not really their fault that they mispronounce "butter" as "batter". What I object to is the term "received pronunciation" which implicitly places their "fwah fwah" as being in some way correct and standard.
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