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Avatarify: Photorealistic Avatars for Skype and Zoom
- tomcam 7y agoCongratulations, team, and thank you for a magnificent gift to the world. I think this is the coolest thing I’ve ever seen on HN. Utterly amazing. I’m now feeling very bad that I have never cared about video cards because I just do back end/front end dev work on machines chosen solely for their lightness and portability.
- anakaiti 7y agoIf you just want to try it out, you could run it on a GPU cloud instance for 2-3$/h. They're also billed by the second, so you can turn it on only when you have meetings.
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- robmiller 7y agoPrevious discussion here, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22906617 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22906617
- eigenvalue 7y agoThe video of him fooling someone into thinking Elon Musk had joined their Zoom call was quite funny. Unfortunately the voice was all wrong (sounded Russian) but the person was still fooled and surprised.
- saagarjha 7y agoMost people have probably not heard much of Elon Musk's voice.
- sam1r 7y agoMaybe the voice will be resolved in a future PR ;)
- JulianMorrison 7y agoAnd now I'm imagining pluggable, modular "avatar fonts". Who would you like to be today?
- strategarius 7y agoThis "audio deepfake" analog suggests totally realistic imitation: https://justusthies.github.io/posts/neural-voice-puppetry/ https://justusthies.github.io/posts/neural-voice-puppetry/ https://youtu.be/VQgYPv8tb6A https://youtu.be/VQgYPv8tb6A
- markosaric 7y agoahaha that's a nice demo! One of the devs was on that call so I guess it was just acting :)
- waltpad 7y agoI love Yann Lecun's eyeglass rim arching in one of the demos from the first-order-model code repo[1]. 1: https://github.com/AliaksandrSiarohin/first-order-model https://github.com/AliaksandrSiarohin/first-order-model
- contingencies 7y agoOur goal is to democratize deepfake avatars. Add a "buy me a beer" button already.
- allenleein 7y agoIt does not conflict with the goal.
- nilkn 7y agoNow if only I could actually find a webcam somewhere to use with my desktop that has a 2080 Ti.
- dirtyid 7y agoThere are apps that turn your phone into a generic webcam. Probably works much better since the camera quality on your phone is better.