[DECtalk] voice creation
Josh Kennedy
joshknnd1982 at gmail.com
Thu Sep 7 17:42:36 EDT 2017
last time i tried it the keynote sapi5 voice that he made is very very
slow and unresponsive. that is just how the circumReality voices are.
With NVDA its almost unuseable.
On 9/7/2017 5:22 PM, Luis Carlos González Moráles wrote:
> Circum Reality. and If you didn't know, CereProc, Acapela Group,
> Cepstral, ETC. Have the capability to build your oune voice, but I
> don't know where we, I say I, can start.
>
> Ulysses Harmony Garcia via Dectalk escribió:
>> 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
>>>
>>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>>
>>> *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
>>>
>>> > [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 <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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