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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>Thank you Peter for the explanation. The way
</span></font>Lyrebird's<font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'> TTS creation system works
was not clear to me in the FAQ. I now understand why the FAQ says they can create
an artificial voice from only a few minutes of recording. Now I will not be surprised
if </span></font>Lyrebird responds by stating no we can't help you. Or they might
decide not to respond at all...<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>Blake<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=2 face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Tahoma;font-weight:bold'>From:</span></font></b><font size=2
face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma'> Dectalk
[mailto:dectalk-bounces@bluegrasspals.com] <b><span style='font-weight:bold'>On
Behalf Of </span></b>Piotr Machacz<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Sent:</span></b> Thursday, September 07, 2017
8:22 AM<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>To:</span></b> <st1:PersonName w:st="on">DECtalk</st1:PersonName><br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Subject:</span></b> Re: [<st1:PersonName
w:st="on">DECtalk</st1:PersonName>] voice creation</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>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)<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>On 7 Sep 2017, at 11:13, Jayson Smith <<a
href="mailto:jaybird@bluegrasspals.com">jaybird@bluegrasspals.com</a>>
wrote:<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>Hi,<br>
<br>
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>
<br>
Sorry I can't be of more help,<br>
<br>
Jayson<br>
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On 9/6/2017 3:03 PM, Blake Roberts wrote:<br>
> Lyrebird sounds interesting. I notice that in FAQ Lyrebird says they<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>> can create a higher-quality voice if I have a lot of recordings
but<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>> this is not available in the current beta. On a related topic, let
me<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>> put all my cards on the table. Before Innoetics was acquired by<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>> Samsung, I was creating a SAPI of myself with help from a
innoetics<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>> founder. In July 2017 around the time of Samsung's acquisition of
the<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>> company, the Innoetics founder told me he would send me a SAPI of
my<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>> voice using the thousands of sentences I recorded. Due to no SAPI<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>> received after almost 2 months from that promise, I'm thinking the<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>> Innoetics founder whom I won't specify on-list might not be
able to<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>> create Blake Sapi. I'm not trying to sound critical of the
indivudal.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>> I'm just accepting the possibility that aforementioned promise
might<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>> not be fulfilled. Does anyone know of a voice creation program
which<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>> can create a SAPI from already recorded sentence wave files? I
spent<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>> many hours and months recording over a thousand sentences
for the<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>> aforementioned Innoetics Blake Sapi. I did the recording at no<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>> financial cost for personal/friends use. I don't want my
time/effort<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>> to be wasted. Blake<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>> <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>> -----Original Message----- From: Dectalk<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>> [<a href="mailto:dectalk-bounces@bluegrasspals.com">mailto:dectalk-bounces@bluegrasspals.com</a>]
On Behalf Of Jayson Smith <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>> Sent: Wednesday, September 06, 2017 12:20 PM To: <st1:PersonName
w:st="on">DECtalk</st1:PersonName> Discussions <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>> Subject: [<st1:PersonName w:st="on">DECtalk</st1:PersonName>]
Lyrebird TTS, a demo is finally here!<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>> <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>> Hi all,<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>> <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>> <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>> A few months ago, I heard about Lyrebird, a future project which<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>> would allow anyone to create a synthetic clone of their own voice.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>> Last night I found out that it's finally here, in an early beta
form.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>> If you go to <a href="http://lyrebird.ai/">http://lyrebird.ai</a>
and create an account, you can then<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>> record a minimum of thirty sentences they specify, the more you<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>> record the better, and then create your digital voice. Then you
can<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>> have it speak any text you choose. I've played with it, and while
the<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>> quality isn't the best, it does pretty accurately capture my
voice,<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>> as well as most of the other people I know of who have created<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>> voices. Check it out!<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>> <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>> Jayson<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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