Lyebird: Clone Your Voice

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Post by fctorial » Mon, Sep 07, 2020, 11:38 PM UTC

Re: Lyebird: Clone Your Voice

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Post by prophesi » Wed, Sep 09, 2020, 6:45 PM UTC

Before Lyrebird was bought by Descript, this was a simple API endpoint. You could generate short MP3's of your digital voice reading any text of your choosing, for free.

I used it extensively in one of my projects, only to find everything broken after leaving it alone for a few months.

All of that to say, are there any alternatives out there HN knows of?

This isn't an attack on Descript, either. The Lyrebird purchase made a lot of sense, and they've built an amazing product with the technology.

Re: Lyebird: Clone Your Voice

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Post by minxomat » Wed, Sep 09, 2020, 6:46 PM UTC

Download page throws this error, might want to look into that. I guess it benefits the user that it's broken.

> Upscope.io: You have exceeded your Upscope subscription usage limits. We will collect data again once usage falls back within your subscription's limits.

Re: Lyebird: Clone Your Voice

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Post by netsec_burn » Wed, Sep 09, 2020, 6:55 PM UTC

The live demo is incredible. I've never heard TTS sound so realistic, when did it get this good?

Re: Lyebird: Clone Your Voice

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Post by shannifin » Wed, Sep 09, 2020, 6:56 PM UTC

I have not yet had any serious use cases with this tech, but I've enjoyed playing around with it and I love its possibilities.

(A while back, as an experiment, I recorded samples with a variety of silly character voices and fake accents; when the end result merged them into one, it sounded hilarious.)

Re: Lyebird: Clone Your Voice

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Post by failrate » Wed, Sep 09, 2020, 6:58 PM UTC

OP: "lyrebird" is misspelled in the title.

Re: Lyebird: Clone Your Voice

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Post by happycry » Wed, Sep 09, 2020, 6:59 PM UTC

prophesi wrote: post #2

Before Lyrebird was bought by Descript, this was a simple API endpoint. You could generate short MP3's of your digital voice reading any text of your choosing, for free. I used it extensively in one of my projects, only to find everything broken after leaving it alone for a few months. All of that to say, are there any alternatives out there HN knows of? This isn't an attack on Descript, either. The Lyrebird purchase…

Hey, founder of Resemble (https://resemble.ai) here. We're building a custom voice cloning service with APIs and controllability. Shoot me a message if you want to build a voice from raw MP3s.

Re: Lyebird: Clone Your Voice

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Post by [deleted] » Wed, Sep 09, 2020, 7:03 PM UTC

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Re: Lyebird: Clone Your Voice

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Post by diegorbaquero » Wed, Sep 09, 2020, 7:06 PM UTC

Get started takes you to download, download gives you and installer, app requires sign up, after sign up you go to Overdub and, oh, it's a paid feature.

Remove installer, delete app.

Re: Lyebird: Clone Your Voice

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Post by blacksmith_tb » Wed, Sep 09, 2020, 7:10 PM UTC

prophesi wrote: post #2

Before Lyrebird was bought by Descript, this was a simple API endpoint. You could generate short MP3's of your digital voice reading any text of your choosing, for free. I used it extensively in one of my projects, only to find everything broken after leaving it alone for a few months. All of that to say, are there any alternatives out there HN knows of? This isn't an attack on Descript, either. The Lyrebird purchase…

Yes, I see to register and install you agree to these TOCs: https://www.descript.com/terms

Not the worst I have ever seen, but it is pretty clear that they will be using everything you do to improve their product, which doesn't seem absurd, given that you get to use it for free. But it might make you think twice about having it say anything you wouldn't want stored forever / passed around the office.