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How can I do this with my voice? Any suggestions? I run a site called https://sysadmincasts.com/ https://sysadmincasts.com/ with tons of voiceovers and would lo

How can I do this with my voice? Any suggestions? I run a site called https://sysadmincasts.com/ https://sysadmincasts.com/ with tons of voiceovers and would love to automate this (without it sounding like crap). There are always places where I need to update the audio with small tweaks. I imagine it is still pretty computerized today but I think we'll eventually get there. The google WaveNet stuff is pretty good but still not there yet [1]. I imagine eventually, you could have some type of transcript that's annotated with speech synthesis markup language (SSML). Then, you have a CI/CD pipeline that would run this text-to-speech engine and regenerate the audio. I could then pair this up with the video. I honestly wonder if we are a year or two away from this being possible. [1] https://cloud.google.com/text-to-speech/ https://cloud.google.com/text-to-speech/

soulofmischief 7y ago
I'd start with recording hundreds of hours of you having typical conversations with a wide variety of context, emotion and intensity.
blhack 7y ago
https://lyrebird.ai/ https://lyrebird.ai/
- CharlesW 7y ago
  Wow, the samples on their front page are absolutely awful. Do they have good ones?
  - james_s_tayler 7y ago
    Yeah, I feel like this has to be a joke compared to the level of quality Faux Rogan is pumping out.
petrochukm 7y ago
Hey! > I honestly wonder if we are a year or two away from this being possible. We've launched a service for adding voiceovers 2 months ago... https://wellsaidlabs.com/ https://wellsaidlabs.com/ Techcrunch: https://techcrunch.com/2019/03/07/wellsaid-aims-to-make-natural-sounding-synthetic-speech-a-credible-alternative-to-real-humans/ https://techcrunch.com/2019/03/07/wellsaid-aims-to-make-natu... GeekWire: https://www.geekwire.com/2019/ai2s-incubator-gives-birth-wellsaid-startup-synthesizes-amazingly-realistic-voices/?fbclid=IwAR0uHTuvoJ9xf7VRWUSG4jFVfspY407ppRUzRSwbYFLqh6w_fYe-YJy-CBo https://www.geekwire.com/2019/ai2s-incubator-gives-birth-wel... > How can I do this with my voice? To prevent abuse of our technology, we need to review your use-case before creating you a custom voice. > The google WaveNet stuff is pretty good but still not there yet [1]. Google WaveNet is not built for high-quality voice-overs but rather for cheap and fast text-to-speech.
czr 7y ago
Once someone gets an implementation of https://sample-efficient-adaptive-tts.github.io/demo/ https://sample-efficient-adaptive-tts.github.io/demo/ [0] working that should be good enough (quality-wise). [0] https://arxiv.org/abs/1809.10460 https://arxiv.org/abs/1809.10460

soulofmischief 7y ago

I'd start with recording hundreds of hours of you having typical conversations with a wide variety of context, emotion and intensity.

blhack 7y ago

https://lyrebird.ai/ https://lyrebird.ai/

CharlesW 7y ago
Wow, the samples on their front page are absolutely awful. Do they have good ones?
- james_s_tayler 7y ago
  Yeah, I feel like this has to be a joke compared to the level of quality Faux Rogan is pumping out.

petrochukm 7y ago

Hey! > I honestly wonder if we are a year or two away from this being possible. We've launched a service for adding voiceovers 2 months ago... https://wellsaidlabs.com/ https://wellsaidlabs.com/ Techcrunch: https://techcrunch.com/2019/03/07/wellsaid-aims-to-make-natural-sounding-synthetic-speech-a-credible-alternative-to-real-humans/ https://techcrunch.com/2019/03/07/wellsaid-aims-to-make-natu... GeekWire: https://www.geekwire.com/2019/ai2s-incubator-gives-birth-wellsaid-startup-synthesizes-amazingly-realistic-voices/?fbclid=IwAR0uHTuvoJ9xf7VRWUSG4jFVfspY407ppRUzRSwbYFLqh6w_fYe-YJy-CBo https://www.geekwire.com/2019/ai2s-incubator-gives-birth-wel... > How can I do this with my voice? To prevent abuse of our technology, we need to review your use-case before creating you a custom voice. > The google WaveNet stuff is pretty good but still not there yet [1]. Google WaveNet is not built for high-quality voice-overs but rather for cheap and fast text-to-speech.

czr 7y ago

Once someone gets an implementation of https://sample-efficient-adaptive-tts.github.io/demo/ https://sample-efficient-adaptive-tts.github.io/demo/ [0] working that should be good enough (quality-wise). [0] https://arxiv.org/abs/1809.10460 https://arxiv.org/abs/1809.10460