[DECtalk] voice creation
Ulysses Harmony Garcia
green_gables_fan33 at yahoo.com
Thu Sep 7 16:59:10 EDT 2017
Hi Blake,
I didn't know there was a KeyNote voice for SAPI 5. How was this
converted? What does CR stand for?
-Ulysses
On 9/7/2017 12:53 PM, Blake Roberts wrote:
>
> Yes, some of the Circum Reality voices sound good. It's also wonderful
> that Jake Gross made a SAPI keynote. I did not know that I could
> record myself saying a word for correct intonation. Is version of
> Circum Reality on Jake's site the most recent version? My only issue
> with CR on Jake's site is lack of uninstaller. Removing a installed
> CircumReality voice requires editing the registry. I had to do that
> when I had CR voice(s) on my computer some time ago. Editing the
> registry scares me because of the damage incorrectly editing registry
> entries can do to a computer. Is there a newer version of CR available
> which uninstalls a voice/ removes voice/CR registry keys?
>
> Blake
>
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>
> *From:*Dectalk [mailto:dectalk-bounces at bluegrasspals.com] *On Behalf
> Of *Brandon Tyson
> *Sent:* Thursday, September 07, 2017 12:47 PM
> *To:* DECtalk
> *Subject:* Re: [DECtalk] voice creation
>
> Hello,
>
> I wanted to touch on one point please:
>
> Even if they can’t do SAPI, and even though this wouldn’t be the same,
> I’m still quite happy with the now open-sourced CircumReality voice
> and think that they sound pretty good.
>
> What I particularly like about those is that even if they do have a
> mispronunciation, it’s giving you the possibility to change the way a
> particular word, or even whole phrases, sound through manual hand made
> recordings, I think, which would theoretically be used in conjunction
> with the synthesizer itself.
>
> Does this make sense?
>
> E.g. A user types in “Wow!” but they find the intonation is incorrect.
> It says “wow.” Instead, making it sound boring. So the user can go in
> and manually correct this to have it say “Wow!” correctly by making an
> individual recording for that.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Brandon
>
> *From: *Devin Prater <mailto:r.d.t.prater at gmail.com>
> *Sent: *Thursday, September 7, 2017 8:56 AM
> *To: *DECtalk <mailto:dectalk at bluegrasspals.com>
> *Subject: *Re: [DECtalk] voice creation
>
> Yuly, GPU is the Graphics processing unit, and the CPU is the central
> processing unit.
>
> A neural net is is a way for computers to learn as a human does,
> through artificial intelligence.
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
>
> On Sep 7, 2017, at 7:39 AM, Ulysses Harmony Garcia via Dectalk
> <dectalk at bluegrasspals.com <mailto:dectalk at bluegrasspals.com>> wrote:
>
> What is GPU, and how is that different from CPU? Also, how does
> neural networking work? Does the computer map out a brain on a
> series of coordinates the way it does when mapping out an MRI or
> 3D printing the model of the brain? I'm interested in knowing what
> programming languages, interpreter scripts, etc they use so that
> people in college and university labs who do neuroscientific work
> can build more neural networks to experiment on.
> I've read some sci-fi literature on how mind-uploading could work,
> but the problem is that it would be nearly impossible to calculate
> the exact number of neurones, neurotransmitters, synapses, and
> receptors, and which memories or part of identity they link up to.
> It would require a huge load of processing and a really high
> knowledge of map coordination in three dimensions to put a series
> of binary code in each region of how the brain would look like.
> -Ulysses
>
> On 9/7/2017 5:22 AM, Piotr Machacz wrote:
>
> I don’t think LyreBird will ever be able to make local voices,
> SAPI or otherwise. At least not in the near future. The way I
> understand it, their system uses a massive GPU cluster to run
> a neural net that gets trained on people’s voices (this is why
> if you make enough recordings it learns to mimic you so well).
> It literally makes connections and figures out patterns like a
> human brain. If you were to run something like this on a
> single home computer, even one with a beefy CPU or preferably
> a good high end GPU, I imagine it would take days to train,
> and then minutes if not a few hours to generate 1 clip of
> speech. That being said, neural nets are getting more and more
> common and are started to be used on a small scale on
> computers or phones, and some companies like Microsoft or
> Google are developing processor chips designed specifically
> for neural nets. So maybe you’ll see this become an offline
> technology in a few years. For now, we know that lyrebird
> wants to make an API available for this technology, so you can
> expect apps and websites to make use of it (IE a chatting
> website might let you enter your voice fingerprint and then
> you can talk to other people by typing text and getting your
> actual voice out, or perhaps getting news or weather spoken to
> you with your own voice)
>
> On 7 Sep 2017, at 11:13, Jayson Smith
> <jaybird at bluegrasspals.com
> <mailto:jaybird at bluegrasspals.com>> wrote:
>
> 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
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> 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 <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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