Lyebird: Clone Your Voice • Hacker News Board

Re: Lyebird: Clone Your Voice

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Post by inetknght » Wed, Sep 09, 2020, 7:31 PM UTC

russfink wrote: post #12

shannifin wrote: post #5

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.)

Robocalling, with some interactivity. "Hello! This is Camp Ayne running for city council. How are your kids Doris and Eugene?"

That's going to be completely indistinguishable from phishing. How would you protect yourself from that?

Re: Lyebird: Clone Your Voice

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Post by yonixw » Wed, Sep 09, 2020, 7:31 PM UTC

cblconfederate wrote: post #16

I wonder who will make somethingn like this a downloadable, locally executable program.

Since you probably need an high end Nvidia GPU at scale - Self hosted is more likely

Re: Lyebird: Clone Your Voice

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Post by cblconfederate » Wed, Sep 09, 2020, 7:40 PM UTC

netsec_burn wrote: post #4

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

Actually TTS voices have been great since years ago (e.g. https://www.nuance.com/omni-channel-customer-engagement/voic...) , these new neural things make them a lot more expressive though.

Re: Lyebird: Clone Your Voice

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Post by one_comment » Wed, Sep 09, 2020, 7:41 PM UTC

echelon wrote: post #14

Show HN: I made https://vo.codes as a side project to democratize text to speech. It's got lots of celebrities, politicians, cartoon characters, and tech figures (Paul Graham, Sam Altman, Mark Zuckerberg, et al) Kids on YouTube found it and are making incredible music videos with it. Homer Simpson and SpongeBob cover Money Machine: https://youtu.be/iBpqJF5LXX4 SpongeBob covers WAP (NSFW!) : https://youtu.be/dSgd4PoQo…

Would it be possible to have shareable links? Like vo.codes/?speaker=Bart&text=I'm+out

Re: Lyebird: Clone Your Voice

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Post by outsidetheparty » Wed, Sep 09, 2020, 7:42 PM UTC

diegorbaquero wrote: post #9

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.

Thank you, that saved me some time!

Re: Lyebird: Clone Your Voice

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Post by echelon » Wed, Sep 09, 2020, 7:43 PM UTC

one_comment wrote: post #24

echelon wrote: post #14

Show HN: I made https://vo.codes as a side project to democratize text to speech. It's got lots of celebrities, politicians, cartoon characters, and tech figures (Paul Graham, Sam Altman, Mark Zuckerberg, et al) Kids on YouTube found it and are making incredible music videos with it. Homer Simpson and SpongeBob cover Money Machine: https://youtu.be/iBpqJF5LXX4 SpongeBob covers WAP (NSFW!) : https://youtu.be/dSgd4PoQo…

Would it be possible to have shareable links? Like vo.codes/?speaker=Bart&text=I'm+out

Absolutely!

I want to add an API too.

Re: Lyebird: Clone Your Voice

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Post by obiefernandez » Wed, Sep 09, 2020, 7:47 PM UTC

I would love to use this to "record" voiceovers for my weekly radio show. Would fix one of the least enjoyable parts of the process, which is actually recording the voiceovers.

Re: Lyebird: Clone Your Voice

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Post by Ruhrbaron » Wed, Sep 09, 2020, 7:50 PM UTC

diegorbaquero wrote: post #9

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.

I found it pretty disturbing that an installer was immediately downloaded on clicking the 'Get Started' button. Won't use.

Re: Lyebird: Clone Your Voice

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Post by obiefernandez » Wed, Sep 09, 2020, 7:50 PM UTC

Is Andrew Mason (Groupon CEO) involved in Descript? I see a note from him in the initial composition after installing.

Re: Lyebird: Clone Your Voice

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Post by shannifin » Wed, Sep 09, 2020, 7:51 PM UTC

russfink wrote: post #12

shannifin wrote: post #5

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.)

Robocalling, with some interactivity. "Hello! This is Camp Ayne running for city council. How are your kids Doris and Eugene?"

Or use it with GPT-3 to answer phone calls I don't want to take...