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by dsteinman 7y ago
This wasn't made with the window.speechSynthesis API, it's using 2 older systems (espeak and sam) that have been ported to JavaScript. They don't sound as good but they generate AudioContext data which can be processed, mixe
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by dsteinman 7y ago
It already does this, when you click the "say" button it generates a base64 url. You can share that url. The problem is when someone loads the URL the browser will not autoplay the clip. You have to click a button (or some othe
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by dsteinman 7y ago
I like the way that one sounds. But it looks like it's using a server-side script to generate the audio: view-source: https://tetyys.com/SAPI4/scripts/tts.js
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by dsteinman 7y ago
I've had trouble identifying why. Safari has a largely compatible AudioContext API, and there's no errors, but the audio never starts playing and there's no "onended" event when it's supposed to be done. So I&
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by dsteinman 7y ago
You be the judge: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VxImROvCnj8&feature=youtu.be... https://jaxcore.github.io/jaxcore-say/borg-example/?say=d2Ug...
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by dsteinman 7y ago
As far as I know they have not released those phonetic recordings. But even without those recordings it might be possible to use those deepfake voice fingerprinting systems to build an STT engine from sound clips from the show.
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Show HN: Borg Voice Generator(jaxcore.github.io)
71 points by dsteinman 7y ago|35 comments
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by dsteinman 7y ago
I think the author massively underestimates how ahead of his time Weiner was and how relevant cybernetics is right now and how important it will become. I've been studying and working on cybernetics for a while now and have become a t
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by dsteinman 7y ago
Google's AlphaZero can beat all other previous chess engines, and learned chess on it's own and invented strategies that were never conceived of before: https://deepmind.com/blog/article/alphazero-sheddin
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by dsteinman 7y ago
If you skip verification but the people you communicate with do not, then all of you are at risk of being publicly identified.
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by dsteinman 7y ago
Feel free to look through my code, I haven't touched it in a few months but does seem to work alright on Android. I had to change how the espeak files get loaded quite a bit.
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by dsteinman 7y ago
It didn't seem to work on my tablet (samsung tab, few years old).
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by dsteinman 7y ago
Actually I edited my comment because I couldn't remember if it works on IOS. I just double checked and yeah my code fails on IOS also but does work fine (albeit slowly) on Android.
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by dsteinman 7y ago
Very nice work, Norbert. I have had an absolute ton of fun playing with your older version and ended up writing wrapper library around your code to add some similar features (webworkers, voices, visualizer) but done in a slightly different
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by dsteinman 8y ago
One of the best documentaries I've seen on the subject is BBC's A Volatile History : https://youtu.be/g_2bo4abkPI