[DECtalk] voice creation

[Brandon Tyson]

Hello,

As I wrote in an e-mail previously, Lyrebird is definitely hoping to get SAPI working when they have more time.

Thanks,

Brandon 

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> On Sep 23, 2017, at 11:17 PM, Blake Roberts <beroberts at hughes.net> wrote:
> 
> Hi Alex,
> Your synthetic voice sample definitely sounds more realistic than most of
> Cepstral's voices.
> Blake
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dectalk [mailto:dectalk-bounces at bluegrasspals.com] On Behalf Of Alex
> H.
> Sent: Saturday, September 23, 2017 2:18 PM
> To: DECtalk
> Subject: Re: [DECtalk] voice creation
> 
> Hi
> 
> I'm assuming Innoetix won't be able to help create your voice. That's
> unfortunate, but wouldn't be the first time a company has promised or
> hinted at something and dropped the ball later. I take things like
> that with a very, very tiny grain of salt these days.
> 
> As for Lyrebird, I've created a basic voice using about 60 sentences
> of text. I used Google Chrome on my Mac and a simple Samson C01U
> microphone. The process was pretty easy and simple, definitely
> accessible.
> 
> Here's a quick audio demo. It should work in all major browsers.
> https://lyrebird.ai/g/mpkwGjzR
> 
> That clip took a few seconds to generate when I first sent it to the
> server to be converted to text. That said, there's some turn-around
> because it is a website and so on, but what I'm saying is right now,
> the technology is too slow and CPU-hungry to be used as a screen
> reader voice. Or at least, that's what I'm gathering. Hopefully one
> day, they can simplify that algorithm to be used on traditional
> computers. It may not haveThe complete articulation and naturalness,
> but at least it would be something different for us to use.  Not to
> mention, a ton of variety of new voices.
> 
> 
> Cheers,
> Alex
>> On 9/6/17, Blake Roberts <beroberts at hughes.net> 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!
>> 
>> 
>> Jayson
>> 
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