[DECtalk] voice creation

Thu Sep 7 08:39:55 EDT 2017

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 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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