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by jazz3020 4y ago
Hey! I've built something similar (Audioread.com) before pivoting and building a text-to-speech API (UnrealSpeech.com) myself due to the high costs of existing TTS APIs. If you're interested, I'd love to collaborate.
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by jazz3020 4y ago
Hey everyone, I'm Eric, one of the developers. "Death is the destination we all share." --Steve Jobs I'm seeing if immortality could be enabled via generative AI. I think this is the closest thing to uploading a brain to
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Show HN: Chat with AI Jesus, Buddha, Obama, Gary Vee, and Dr. Peterson(gpt.chat)
17 points by jazz3020 4y ago|3 comments
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by jazz3020 4y ago
Alright, Mr. Noble. You're either naive, narrow-minded, unable to see the big picture, or all above the above. Bringing others down will never be an antidote to not building or achieving anything in your life. Your time will be better
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by jazz3020 4y ago
Yeah, another person mentioned this as well, and I get it. Will definitely work to improve on that.
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by jazz3020 4y ago
I agree and I'm saddened that it's a deal breaker for you. Unfortunately, we do not have infrastructure to offer pay-as-you-go (actually pretty challenging ops). We're forced to target a smaller niche today and expand in the
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by jazz3020 4y ago
Everyone's working on emotional expressiveness right now. Many researches published left & right!
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by jazz3020 4y ago
No it’s not. I think it’s how the mp3 is somehow played in the browser maybe. It happens to me too.
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by jazz3020 4y ago
Nope, I’m sorry for the confusion. We did use title-cased letters in our logos to reduce similarity (their logo is all-cap: UNREAL ENGINE)
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by jazz3020 4y ago
Right off the bat, the third sentence looks much more like what my data looks like, and the kind of text I wanted people to use it for. Where is the line from?
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by jazz3020 4y ago
Haha, I really appreciate this feedback. Everything I wanted to hear. Frankly, trying to fight against the Goliath, with 0 marketing budget, and I’m desperately hoping to create noise. Breaking a rule or two is something AWS can’t do at the
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by jazz3020 4y ago
I’d say businesses that already spend $$$ on a 3rd party TTS service and know how expensive it is or have content but haven’t pulled the trigger due to the prohibitive cost. I wrote this on the Product Hunt page: > “… read aloud apps (e.
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by jazz3020 4y ago
Yo! Let’s at least chat and brainstorm about it. Would you want to ping me on twitter? @automationism
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by jazz3020 4y ago
I greatly appreciate the feedback! I agree on the table idea to more candidly and clearly compare other aspects. This launch/experiment was that the quality/cost would be the main factors, and we’d go from there, iterating and cus
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by jazz3020 4y ago
The title has been edited (I think by a yc moderator) which I think is a good move.
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by jazz3020 4y ago
Yup, trying to fix this
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by jazz3020 4y ago
Which ones do you have in mind?
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by jazz3020 4y ago
English only, no SSML. This was probably the least minimal MVP I've built so far, though. Gotta still iterate. SSML is prob more important than non-English for now.
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by jazz3020 4y ago
That's a great insight. I'll look into the Github/Copilot more. I can't code without Copilot anymore and that piques my interest. But yeah, we def need politically neutral voices.
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by jazz3020 4y ago
Yes, that's true. We're currently not targeting side projects at the moment as we do not have infrastructure to do so. I hope do be able to support smaller developers (like myself) soon. Step-by-step!
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by jazz3020 4y ago
This is fantastic feedback! The "mashed up words" are something I'm trying to fix. And I totally agree that the AWS voice is much more clear. Maybe we can get to clear & natural before AWS?
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by jazz3020 4y ago
The stuff on GCP is a long story, which makes us an edge case. "Amazon still wins" is generally the case. Hold on to the stock.
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by jazz3020 4y ago
Well, sure, I mean MS is a 2T company with 180K employees. So I wouldn't be too surprised if theirs sounds better than mine. The tortoise tts repo seems pretty random though. Are you trying to promote something of your own or something
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by jazz3020 4y ago
Honestly, I'm super happy that you found one voice arguable better than AWS. I might argue, though, you might get used to our voices quickly once you start using it frequently. I've had this feedback before from someone who was ve
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by jazz3020 4y ago
Well, not exactly! We have clusters on GCP actually, sorry to break the news. But we did train models on AWS.
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by jazz3020 4y ago
The service is for businesses. For them, tens of millions of characters per month is not much at all. And they'd integrate the API and provide services to end-users/consumers. I can see how one could find it disingenuous, though,
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by jazz3020 4y ago
Thank you. What do you suggest I do? Remove the professor and entrepreneur voices?
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by jazz3020 4y ago
Hey, thanks for the comment. The "sample" must've been pulled from the "random" feature. It basically shows texts other people have tried. This feature might have been a bad idea. I'm sorry if it offended you i
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by jazz3020 4y ago
This is incorrect. The AWS example is Polly Neural Matthew voice which costs $16, not $4. Neural Matthew: https://unreal-tts-live-demo.s3.us-west-1.amazonaws.com/aws/... Standard Matthew: https://unreal-tts
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by jazz3020 4y ago
Hmm, when I demoed around, people pretty much unanimously picked the voice as the best-sounding one.

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