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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 »

rayalez wrote: post #5

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…

Thank you for sharing that! We had not thought about this specific use case yet. It's quite difficult to figure out which use cases are going to become the most popular.

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

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Post by capocannoniere »

Congrats on the launch! The tech is amazing

Quick q's (purely out of curiosity):

1) > We are [...] PhD students in AI at University of Montreal

Are you doing the startup on the side/planning on going back to school?

2) I don't recall reading about you guys in articles about YC S17 demo days. What are reasons why some companies might not participate in demo day or remain off-the-record? In your case, you seem to have had a working product long before demo day

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

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Post by adbrebs »

capocannoniere wrote: post #12

Congrats on the launch! The tech is amazing Quick q's (purely out of curiosity): 1) > We are [...] PhD students in AI at University of Montreal Are you doing the startup on the side/planning on going back to school? 2) I don't recall reading about you guys in articles about YC S17 demo days. What are reasons why some companies might not participate in demo day or remain off-the-record? In your case, you seem to have…

Thank you!

1) The research of the PhD and the startup are quite complementary at the end, so we hope we can continue doing both.

2) We didn't do demo day because we raised our seed round just before YC and did not want to raise again.

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

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Post by mbonzo »

I have a youtube channel (vimgirl) and before recording I have to write scripts for what I plan to say in the video. The digital voice doesn't seem to be working right now, but when it does it would cut down my screencast production time by at least half.

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

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Post by songzme »

adbrebs wrote: post #16
songzme wrote: post #15

When the demo page was launched it seemed like Lyrebird was going to be an API. Will there still be an api?

Yes definitively, we are starting a private beta at the moment.

awesome! I signed up back then but haven't heard anything since. Is there anything else I can do to try out the beta?

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

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Post by adbrebs »

songzme wrote: post #18
adbrebs wrote: post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yes definitively, we are starting a private beta at the moment.

awesome! I signed up back then but haven't heard anything since. Is there anything else I can do to try out the beta?

Not yet. We are starting with a few developers/companies only and will expand it progressively.

What would be your use case?

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

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Post by plastroltech »

Will this technology be licensed for redistribution or only for online API use? I ask because in the video game scenario it would be great to have this in a library I could distribute instead of relying on the API to be available at all times.
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