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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.<br>
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.<br>
-Ulysses<br>
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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
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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
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<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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> Sent: Wednesday, September 06, 2017 12:20 PM To: DECtalk Discussions
> Subject: [DECtalk] Lyrebird TTS, a demo is finally here!
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> Hi all,
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> 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/" moz-do-not-send="true">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!
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> Jayson
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