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This looks awesome. I commented on the original post about how exciting this is for worldbuilding (and creating realistic voices for fictional characters, with
by drusepth 9y ago
This looks awesome. I commented on the original post about how exciting this is for worldbuilding (and creating realistic voices for fictional characters, with all the uses that come there).
Random question: it's said that people think their own voices sound weird when they hear recordings of themselves played back. Do you have a way to measure that phenomenon? Have you seen people complaining about the accuracy when in fact it was just that effect making people sound "weird" (to themselves)?
- adbrebs 9y agoYes, it's actually quite interesting! It's a recurrent observation that we have inside the team with our own voices. Friends of the person usually better appreciate the quality of his/her digital voice. You can also observe these reactions to some extent on twitter: https://twitter.com/LyrebirdAi https://twitter.com/LyrebirdAi Other interesting observation are the sentences that people generate for the first time with their digital voice...
- gasbag 9y agoThe reason for the phenomenon is that some large percentage of how you hear your own voice comes from bone conduction. In addition, the higher harmonics of your voice are more directional, which is to say "aimed away from your ears", and tend to be diminished when reflected back to you by the objects around you. The end result of this is that your own voice, when recorded and played back to you, will generally sound less bassy and more harmonically rich than you expect it to.