[DECtalk] voice creation

[Blake Roberts]

Lyrebird sounds interesting. I notice that in FAQ Lyrebird says they can
create a higher-quality voice if I have a lot of recordings but this is not
available in the current beta. On a related topic, let me put all my cards
on the table. Before Innoetics was acquired by Samsung, I was creating a
SAPI of myself with help from a innoetics founder. In July 2017 around the
time of Samsung's acquisition of the company, the Innoetics founder told me
he would send me a SAPI of my voice using the thousands of sentences I
recorded. Due to no SAPI received after almost 2 months from that promise,
I'm thinking the Innoetics founder  whom I won't specify on-list might not
be able to create Blake Sapi. I'm not trying to sound critical of the
indivudal. I'm just accepting the possibility that aforementioned promise
might not be fulfilled.
Does anyone know of a voice creation program which can create a SAPI from
already recorded sentence wave files? I spent many hours and months
recording over a thousand  sentences for the aforementioned Innoetics Blake
Sapi. I did the recording at no financial cost for personal/friends use. I
don't want my time/effort to be wasted.
Blake

-----Original Message-----
From: Dectalk [mailto:dectalk-bounces at bluegrasspals.com] On Behalf Of Jayson
Smith
Sent: Wednesday, September 06, 2017 12:20 PM
To: DECtalk Discussions
Subject: [DECtalk] Lyrebird TTS, a demo is finally here!

Hi all,


A few months ago, I heard about Lyrebird, a future project which would 
allow anyone to create a synthetic clone of their own voice. Last night 
I found out that it's finally here, in an early beta form. If you go to 
http://lyrebird.ai and create an account, you can then record a minimum 
of thirty sentences they specify, the more you record the better, and 
then create your digital voice. Then you can have it speak any text you 
choose. I've played with it, and while the quality isn't the best, it 
does pretty accurately capture my voice, as well as most of the other 
people I know of who have created voices. Check it out!


Jayson


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