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Launch HN: Lyrebird (YC S17) – Create a digital copy of your voice

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Re: Launch HN: Lyrebird (YC S17) – Create a digital copy of your voice

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Post by adbrebs »

sjbase wrote: post #34

Cool 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?

Sure, good question!

There will be two scenarii:

- you want to use the voice of someone that has a Lyrebird account: he or she has to give you their authorization.

- you want to use the voice of someone who does not have an account. We have specific contracts for that. Say you want to copy the voice of Morgan Freeman, the contract will be between him/her, you and Lyrebird. We will also probably explore alternative ways for that.

Re: Launch HN: Lyrebird (YC S17) – Create a digital copy of your voice

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Post by kiddico »

tekromancr wrote: post #31

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 Also, https://lyrebird.ai/g/D3Fw328D

I got a good giggle out of that first one, thank you haha.

Re: Launch HN: Lyrebird (YC S17) – Create a digital copy of your voice

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Post by adbrebs »

drusepth wrote: post #39

This 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…

Yes, it's actually quite interesting! It's a recurrent observation that we have inside the team with our own voices. Friends of the person usually better appreciate the quality of his/her digital voice. You can also observe these reactions to some extent on twitter: https://twitter.com/LyrebirdAi

Other interesting observation are the sentences that people generate for the first time with their digital voice...

Re: Launch HN: Lyrebird (YC S17) – Create a digital copy of your voice

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Post by sotelo »

woollysammoth wrote: post #37

This 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…

Yes! This is what our lawyers suggested to protect ourselves.

We delete all the recordings when you click delete, so we can't recreate the voice anymore. However, this is still necessary in case we share some generated sentences in social media or so (like we're doing on twitter now).

Re: Launch HN: Lyrebird (YC S17) – Create a digital copy of your voice

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Post by adbrebs »

webwanderings wrote: post #46

I am confused about the functionality. What is that I will be able to do, if I go through recording 30 sentences?

You will be able to create a digital voice that sounds like you and generate any sentence from it.

And thanks, we are going to update the instructions to make them more clear.

Re: Launch HN: Lyrebird (YC S17) – Create a digital copy of your voice

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Post by adbrebs »

SimbaOnSteroids wrote: post #45

This is exciting I've been following you guys since at least May. How do you plan on getting the voices out of the uncanny valley?

This is going to be very tricky! No clear answer to that, we are putting a lot of effort on research but our progress is quite difficult to predict.
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