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Re: Show HN: I Built an Accent Changer App

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Post by smalltorch »

Interesting, what's the purpose? Maybe, host a podcast without revealing your real voice?

I tried a few, I think the British American was maybe the best one. I didn't really notice a huge difference on Italian or Indian accent.

British - American https://pastewaves.com/player/25cacf64-461a-4eef-9b02-9bc0da...

A little shaky, but no doubt hints of a British Accent.

Re: Show HN: I Built an Accent Changer App

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Post by jrickert »

Training someone to change the perceived gender of their own voice is a similar process to training them to speak with a new accent. I recently prototyped a gender-affirming voice therapy app for transgender women: https://own-voice-dev.netlify.app/

So now I’m curious if our two applications use the same approach under the hood! I have a detailed tech stack rundown on this page: https://own-voice-dev.netlify.app/#/info but in brief I use OpenVoice v2 to convert someone’s voice toward a differently-gendered reference voice, but leave it at only like 30%-60% transformed so it still sounds like them and not the reference. This transformed voice then becomes a practice reference for drilling.

Re: Show HN: I Built an Accent Changer App

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Post by wbemaker »

jrickert wrote: post #3

Training someone to change the perceived gender of their own voice is a similar process to training them to speak with a new accent. I recently prototyped a gender-affirming voice therapy app for transgender women: https://own-voice-dev.netlify.app/ So now I’m curious if our two applications use the same approach under the hood! I have a detailed tech stack rundown on this page: https://own-voice-dev.netlify.app/#/in…

I am mostly using elevanlabs for this

Re: Show HN: I Built an Accent Changer App

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Post by wbemaker »

smalltorch wrote: post #2

Interesting, what's the purpose? Maybe, host a podcast without revealing your real voice? I tried a few, I think the British American was maybe the best one. I didn't really notice a huge difference on Italian or Indian accent. British - American https://pastewaves.com/player/25cacf64-461a-4eef-9b02-9bc0da... A little shaky, but no doubt hints of a British Accent.

Cool. Thank you for testing it. It can have multiple purposes. For people that want to do video presentations for instance and have a more native accent. Or yes, for a podcast. What do you think I should improve?

Re: Show HN: I Built an Accent Changer App

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Post by gumby »

smalltorch wrote: post #2

Interesting, what's the purpose? Maybe, host a podcast without revealing your real voice? I tried a few, I think the British American was maybe the best one. I didn't really notice a huge difference on Italian or Indian accent. British - American https://pastewaves.com/player/25cacf64-461a-4eef-9b02-9bc0da... A little shaky, but no doubt hints of a British Accent.

I went to a lot of work to adopt a “neutral” American accent, with some success. Perfectly adequate for casual conversations.

Why? You run across many people with accents every day, right? Well, it’s a problem; people definitely treat you differently.

This issue isn’t specific to the USA btw, it’s just I’ve been working in the USA for a long time.

Re: Show HN: I Built an Accent Changer App

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Post by gumby »

jrickert wrote: post #3

Training someone to change the perceived gender of their own voice is a similar process to training them to speak with a new accent. I recently prototyped a gender-affirming voice therapy app for transgender women: https://own-voice-dev.netlify.app/ So now I’m curious if our two applications use the same approach under the hood! I have a detailed tech stack rundown on this page: https://own-voice-dev.netlify.app/#/in…

I’m surprised this comment was downvoted.

I know it’s bad form to discuss that, but this is a completely normative comment, with no opinion given so far from being a flame. And it adds to the technical discussion!

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