Really fun stuff. I noticed that it seems to have problems starting sentences. Especially if I try to start a sentence with "hi,". Interesting nonetheless. This passage seems to be rendered fairly well: https://lyrebird.ai/g/LYoVuaZm
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#32Really fun stuff. I noticed that it seems to have problems starting sentences. Especially if I try to start a sentence with "hi,". Interesting nonetheless. This passage seems to be rendered fairly well: https://lyrebird.ai/g/LYoVuaZm Also, https://lyrebird.ai/g/D3Fw328D
Unfortunately for certain voices our model has difficulties to generate the very beginning of the sentence. We hope to fix this problem soon.
Some other people shared their voices on twitter if you want to compare: https://twitter.com/LyrebirdAi
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#34Cool stuff! Question from your FAQ:
> Q: Will I be able to copy another person's voice?
> A: Yes but only if you have the authorization of the person whose voice is being copied.
Perhaps you can unpack that answer a bit? What's the authorization process?
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#35I assume you guys know about VocalID that got an NSF SBiR grant for giving mute people a voice (through similar means) https://www.vocalid.co/
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#36Re: Launch HN: Lyrebird (YC S17) – Create a digital copy of your voice
#37This looks really great, congrats! Forgive me if I missed something, but I was wondering if you could clear up some confusion. From the terms: "Subject to the Biometric Data Agreement, you hereby grant to us a fully paid, royalty-free, perpetual, irrevocable, worldwide, non-exclusive and fully sublicensable right (including any moral rights) and license to use, license, distribute, reproduce, modify, adapt, publicly perform, and publicly display Your Voice, Digital Voice..."
Just to be clear, the license of the voice/digital voice is revoked upon deletion of the recordings? I understand it is subject to the biometric agreement, but the words perpetual and irrevocable still worried me. Thanks!
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#38This is incredible - recorded my voice and I'm blown away with the results. One thing: I found that I was in such a hurry to record that I probably spoke faster than normal. It'd be nice if there was a way to tune a few parameters manually (tempo, pitch, etc). If I ever lose my voice and have to have a TTS appliance speak for me, I'll be contacting you all to get my voice profile! EDIT: For those interested, pretty i…
Thank you for the feedback! > It'd be nice if there was a way to tune a few parameters manually (tempo, pitch, etc). Yes we are currently exploring ways to control the generation: volume, pitch, tempo, speed but also intonation and emotion.
Emotion would be a nice one - my wife's first comment was that it sounded too bored.
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#39This looks awesome. I commented on the original post about how exciting this is for worldbuilding (and creating realistic voices for fictional characters, with all the uses that come there).
Random question: it's said that people think their own voices sound weird when they hear recordings of themselves played back. Do you have a way to measure that phenomenon? Have you seen people complaining about the accuracy when in fact it was just that effect making people sound "weird" (to themselves)?
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#40"I'm using my voice as my password". Vanguard allows voice authentication ( https://investor.vanguard.com/account-conveniences/voice-ver... ) - and who knows who else will roll something similar out in the future. Yeah, its really really dumb, but it's happening in production now. I wouldn't use this product if I were you, but honestly you should also not use voice verification/authentication for anything.
Fidelity began verifying voice for telephone customer service a short while back. They recorded me during the call then at the end said they were going to use it to verify for future calls. No way to opt out.
Did they say something to that effect before the call started, or only told you at the end? Or did they just use the "this call may be monitored for quality assurance and training purposes" blanket?