Show HN: Voicera – Add life-like AI voice dictation to your blogs and articles
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Re: Show HN: Voicera – Add life-like AI voice dictation to your blogs and articles
#2I assume there are a number of Youtube channels doing something like this already - I occasionally notice that an otherwise well-researched and presented item has a non-English idiom - such that even a fluent speaker would self-correct.
I guess the idea is to write one and just "release" it in many languages.
The point of all that is, yeah, computer generated voice has gotten to the point I need dumb mistakes to realise ... one of those "the tech has passed an inflection point" moments
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#3Cool idea, but wouldn't it be more useful as a feature for an RSS reader? No user of mine would come to the website and listen, but if they use a reader for my feed and other feeds, that would be useful for them.
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#4The word 'dictation' is confusing here. I think you want 'recitation', 'vocalization', 'narration' or just 'reading'. Dictation is speech-to-text, this is text-to-speech.
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#6This might be beneficial for visually impaired if the performance (closer to natural voice) is better than the default text-to-speech softwares on the OS. I think this is an important factor.
However OS makers can catch up and threaten the business model of this software by integrating a better TTS.
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#7The word 'dictation' is confusing here. I think you want 'recitation', 'vocalization', 'narration' or just 'reading'. Dictation is speech-to-text, this is text-to-speech.
Came to the comment section to say this. I suspect it may be a mistranslation?
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#8Looks cool, congrats on the launch! Will you guys be doing text to speech in any indian languages? If so would love to see a demo of that!
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#9I assume there are a number of Youtube channels doing something like this already - I occasionally notice that an otherwise well-researched and presented item has a non-English idiom - such that even a fluent speaker would self-correct. I guess the idea is to write one and just "release" it in many languages. The point of all that is, yeah, computer generated voice has gotten to the point I need dumb mistakes to real…
I think I know the type of video you mean, I always assumed they were not TTS but professional speakers hired on Fiver and obliged to speak the text verbatim even though there are weird phrases.
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#10Anyone have a nice opensource/pretrained TTS model they like using? I use google's wavenet TTS heavily to create 'audiobooks' (especially from archive.org which is great for old books). But it's pretty expensive
I periodically look for new versions and, while the examples sound better, they fall down really hard on other text.