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A little OT, but I think squarely in HN territory: Years ago, a friend of mine's mother-in-law lost her voice due to cancer. As an engineer, he built her a too
by CWuestefeld 9y ago
A little OT, but I think squarely in HN territory:
Years ago, a friend of mine's mother-in-law lost her voice due to cancer. As an engineer, he built her a tool from a toy Casio keyboard and some samples, allowing her to talk using this portable toy.
After that experience, he talked about wanting to create a service by with which people could archive their voices, so that in case of future need they could be loaded as samples for such a device. He'd give them scripts to read and record, from which he'd parse the phoneme samples, and then storing them in a repository that they could later retrieve if necessary.
Today there's probably a need for a lot more security than he'd talked about at the time, but it seems like something that's eminently do-able today. It could be a very cheap and low-cost endeavor, but useful as a sort of insurance because it carries a really high value in the unusual cases where it's needed.
- dzuc 9y agoThis exact thing does exist: https://www.vocalid.co/legacy https://www.vocalid.co/legacy I believe there's also another service I'm forgetting the name of right now.
- maneesh 9y agoLyrebird
- dzuc 9y agoYes, thank you! https://lyrebird.ai/ https://lyrebird.ai/
- toomuchtodo 9y agoI experimented with Lyrebird the other night, recording the maximum 300 sentences for their learning algorithm, and I wasn’t impressed with the output. With that said, big fan of the idea and I hope they can improve the output over time.
- dzuc 9y agoDoes anyone know about using one of these to create an offline archive of a voice? Are these things always connected to the internet? I really love the idea of saving voices of loved ones as if they are photographs. Or of moments in time (your child's voice, etc.)