[DECtalk] voice creation

Blake Roberts beroberts at hughes.net
Thu Sep 7 08:20:09 EDT 2017


Hi Jayson,

I contacted Lyrebird today as you suggested. I signed nothing with Innoetics
therefore consider myself owner of the recordings which were all made on my
computer via Audacity between February and late June of this year. As we
know the acquisition of Innoetics by Samsung occurred in early July. It will
be interesting to see what Lyrebird says in response to my inquiry. While I
understand there service is in beta, I simply don't know at this point if
Lyrebird can create a SAPI of my wave files or not.

Blake

 

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From: Dectalk [mailto:dectalk-bounces at bluegrasspals.com] On Behalf Of Jayson
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Sent: Thursday, September 07, 2017 5:14 AM
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Subject: Re: [DECtalk] voice creation

 

Hi,

I don't know of any other voice creation program which can make a SAPI
voice. If you still have the original recordings, and you still own the
copyright in and to them I.E. you didn't sign some sort of agreement giving
all your rights to Innoetics, you should in theory be able to use such a
service if one were to exist at some point in the future. You might try
contacting Lyrebird and explaining your situation, see what they say.

Sorry I can't be of more help,

Jayson

On 9/6/2017 3:03 PM, Blake Roberts wrote:
> 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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