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by adbrebs 7y ago
More information: https://medium.com/descript/introducing-descript-podcast-stu...
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Lyrebird: ultra-realistic artificial voices(lyrebird.ai)
20 points by adbrebs 8y ago|1 comments
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Lyrebird (YC S17) Is Hiring a CPU / GPU / TPU Research Engineer in Montréal(drive.google.com)
1 points by adbrebs 9y ago
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Voice cloning startup Lyrebird (YC S17) is hiring lead, front-end and devops devs(angel.co)
1 points by adbrebs 9y ago
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by adbrebs 9y ago
> Seems from right out of the gate, they are breaking their own ethical guidelines as a cheap promotional tactic. If they care that little about themselves and a former president of the United States, what do they care about your likenes
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by adbrebs 9y ago
This is a good point, it's true that we don't mention it explicitly in our ethics statement. But it is in our evaluation agreement: > (v) create a false identity or otherwise impersonate a third party on or through the Services
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by adbrebs 9y ago
Thank you for raising those concerns. We take those very seriously. You can read more about our ethical stance in this article: https://lyrebird.ai/ethics/ To recap: - we want to start by raising public awareness about
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by adbrebs 9y ago
This is going to be very tricky! No clear answer to that, we are putting a lot of effort on research but our progress is quite difficult to predict.
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by adbrebs 9y ago
You will be able to create a digital voice that sounds like you and generate any sentence from it. And thanks, we are going to update the instructions to make them more clear.
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by adbrebs 9y ago
Yes, 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 t
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by adbrebs 9y ago
Sure, good question! There will be two scenarii: - you want to use the voice of someone that has a Lyrebird account: he or she has to give you their authorization. - you want to use the voice of someone who does not have an account. We hav
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by adbrebs 9y ago
We've fixed the bug!
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by adbrebs 9y ago
Unfortunately for certain voices our model has difficulties to generate the very beginning of the sentence. We hope to fix this problem soon. Some other people shared their voices on twitter if you want to compare: https://twitte
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by adbrebs 9y ago
The first version will only be an online API. I agree with you that we should eventually think about licensing it for offline/embedded redistribution.
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by adbrebs 9y ago
Thank you for the feedback! > It'd be nice if there was a way to tune a few parameters manually (tempo, pitch, etc). Yes we are currently exploring ways to control the generation: volume, pitch, tempo, speed but also intonation and
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by adbrebs 9y ago
Not yet. We are starting with a few developers/companies only and will expand it progressively. What would be your use case?
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by adbrebs 9y ago
Yes definitively, we are starting a private beta at the moment.
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by adbrebs 9y ago
Thank you! 1) The research of the PhD and the startup are quite complementary at the end, so we hope we can continue doing both. 2) We didn't do demo day because we raised our seed round just before YC and did not want to raise again.
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by adbrebs 9y ago
Thank you for sharing that! We had not thought about this specific use case yet. It's quite difficult to figure out which use cases are going to become the most popular.
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by adbrebs 9y ago
For now, it works better with American English accent but it is still able to adapt to other accents. Our upcoming versions should be more robust to different accents and we also plan to extend it to other languages.
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by adbrebs 9y ago
Yes definitively! This is also something we are working on.
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by adbrebs 9y ago
Thanks for pointing this out, this was reported by a few others. We are investigating it. For now, just refresh the page and it should work.
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Launch HN: Lyrebird (YC S17) – Create a digital copy of your voice
154 points by adbrebs 9y ago|93 comments
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Lyrebird beta – Create your voice avatar(lyrebird.ai)
17 points by adbrebs 9y ago|5 comments
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Lyrebird – An API to copy the voice of anyone(lyrebird.ai)
1401 points by adbrebs 9y ago|298 comments