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

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#61
I just tried to signup with a Hotmail email address and I got this error message: This email cannot be used to create an account. It might be due to your email domain name.

I realize Hotmail isn't the sexiest email provider these days but it's one of the more commonly used. Do you have a list of email domains you allow?

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

#62
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Sounds amazing! Just to add a usecase - for many people, creating a decent voiceover is one of the big sticking points for producing youtube videos or educational courses. If I could write a script, and have software generate a decent enough voiceover, it would be amazing. It's not even necessary to copy anyone's voice, as long as there's a selection of the most comprehensible and human-sounding ones. Then, you could…

+1 for this use case!

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#63
While it's good that you have an ethics page: https://lyrebird.ai/ethics/, it only has two ethical guidelines:

* Spread awareness of this technology

* Your digital voice remains yours

I would feel a lot better about this if you also had explicit ethical boundaries, for example disallowing users impersonating someone else, e.g. Donald Trump, Barack Obama. "Your digital voice remains yours" sort of sounds like you won't use/share my digital voice with others, but doesn't directly address whether bad actors can maliciously impersonate someone who hasn't registered with Lyrebird.

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

#64
post #47

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).

> However, this is still necessary in case we share some generated sentences in social media or so (like we're doing on twitter now).

This is something that you should only do with the permission of the user who provided the voice. You don't need generalized permission to do that for every user, and given the nature of the technology, you shouldn't ask for such permission.

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#65

While it's good that you have an ethics page: https://lyrebird.ai/ethics/ , it only has two ethical guidelines: * Spread awareness of this technology * Your digital voice remains yours I would feel a lot better about this if you also had explicit ethical boundaries, for example disallowing users impersonating someone else, e.g. Donald Trump, Barack Obama. "Your digital voice remains yours" sort of sounds like you won…

To build on that a bit. My bank uses voice recognition as a security measure and to authenticate me when I call in. Throw a bad actor in the mix and that becomes a security issue.

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#66
This is only tangentially on topic, but is there an API or some engine that I can feed short sentences into and get high-quality generation back?

I have an RC controller radio that supports voice prompts, and I would like to add some short phrases that are missing, such as "air mode on", "throttle warning", etc.

Is there anything on par in quality with Google's/Siri's voice? Not the Google TTS, but the voice they use in Now.

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

#67
post #36
post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Thanks for pointing this out, this was reported by a few others. We are investigating it. For now, just refresh the page and it should work.

We've fixed the bug!

Getting failed upload after clicking validation... Chrome showing this in console: "VM291:1 POST https://lyrebird.ai/my/recordings/ 400 (Bad Request)"

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

#68
When I try test my digital voice, after clicking "Generate," I get this error after about 10 seconds:

Something went wrong. Please try again!

I've tried about 5 times.

EDIT: I went to back to the page a few minutes later, and the recordings were all there. So it looks like it works, but is giving a false error message.

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

#69
post #36
post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Thanks for pointing this out, this was reported by a few others. We are investigating it. For now, just refresh the page and it should work.

We've fixed the bug!

Unfortunately still not working on IOS. Tried with both safari and chrome.

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

#70
post #68

When I try test my digital voice, after clicking "Generate," I get this error after about 10 seconds: Something went wrong. Please try again! I've tried about 5 times. EDIT: I went to back to the page a few minutes later, and the recordings were all there. So it looks like it works, but is giving a false error message.

Can you refresh and try again? Let me know if it works.
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