<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">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)<br class=""><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On 7 Sep 2017, at 11:13, Jayson Smith <<a href="mailto:jaybird@bluegrasspals.com" class="">jaybird@bluegrasspals.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class="">
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Hi,<br class="">
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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.<br class="">
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Jayson<br class="">
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On 9/6/2017 3:03 PM, Blake Roberts wrote:<br class="">
<span style="white-space: pre;" class="">> 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
>
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> Subject: [DECtalk] Lyrebird TTS, a demo is finally here!
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> 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 <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://lyrebird.ai/">http://lyrebird.ai</a> 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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