vo.codes
AI
text to speech
SHOW HN2020
How HN took it
22 positive, 48 neutral or asking, 2 mixed, 15 critical, out of 87 comments about the project. Thread score +0.10.
Idea: 8 for, 2 againstPerformance: 1 for, 5 againstExecution: 3 for, 2 againstDocs: 1 for, 1 againstPrivacy: 0 for, 1 against
The thread, comment by comment
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What HN said
What people liked
Voices are uncannily accurate
From 1 comment
Having met some of the people on there, this is uncannily accurate, especially in the High Quality voices. Well done!
martinesko36 on HN
Impressive results
From 1 comment
really impressed by this.
holoduke on HN
Objections
Site errors and rate limiting under HN load
From 3 comments
Guess the server is overloaded now. All I'm seeing are errors. Tip: It's a cool idea to put some ready made samples under the photos. A lot of people like myself only want to…
superasn on HNI keep getting hit with the rate limiter so I wasn't able to try it :( > There was an error and I still haven't implemented retry to make it invisible. You can absolutely submit…
blisseyGo on HNI think the site's being hugged to death by HN. I can't get any of the voices to work, they all error out.
nojvek on HN
Legal risk from celebrity voice use
From 2 comments
I think you're going to have legal risks with a project like this. At some point a celebrity is going to sue and we'll find out what the law decides.
Dramatize on HNI'm not a lawyer, but I think we're entering into a legal gray area. There are the existing frameworks of copyright, parody, free speech, slander, libel, etc. that are all…
echelon on HN
Deepfake and security abuse concerns
From 2 comments
That's super cool. I am worried about the potential abuse of this service, are there any existing services that can help to identify audio deep fakes like this one is for making…
searchableguy on HNI assume that if somebody had physically lost their ability to speak, it would now be possible to generate a pretty reasonable synthetic voice. Should we all be archiving a…
iamthemonster on HN
Requests
Add female voices
From 2 comments
You haven't done very many female voices. Is this a limitation of the modeling process?
ReedJessen on HNIs there a reason why no female voice is available in this great project? Do we have more data on male speech than female speech?
valaymerick on HN
Add more celebrity voices such as Christopher Walken, Steve Jobs, Majel Barrett
From 3 comments
Needs more Christopher Walken
aww_dang on HNPlease add Steve Jobs. I miss him
baxtr on HNI'd love to have an option for Majel Barrett
mmastrac on HN
Pre-made audio samples under photos
From 1 comment
Guess the server is overloaded now. All I'm seeing are errors. Tip: It's a cool idea to put some ready made samples under the photos. A lot of people like myself only want to…
superasn on HN
Questions
How the models were trained and how long it takes
From 2 comments
How long does it take to generate a good quality voice?
galuggus on HNVery cool, and easy to use! Can you give some more info on how you generated the models? I'm also interested in the tech stack you're using to implement this webapp... Would love…
sunsetMurk on HN
Whether voice conversion is planned
From 1 comment
I've built a lot of celebrity text to speech models and host them online: https://vo.codes It has celebrities like Sir David Attenborough and Arnold Schwarzenegger, a bunch of…
echelon on HN
Alternatives named
Mellotron
From 1 comment
Thanks! There are a lot of neat research threads ongoing in terms of generating vocals. Nvidia published Mellotron (code + paper + models), and the results are promising:…
echelon on HN
Tacotron 2 with WaveGlow
From 1 comment
I can make a blog post later, but at a high level: A rust TTS server hosts two models: a mel inference model and a mel inversion model. The ones I'm using are glow-tts and…
echelon on HN
Resemblyzer
From 1 comment
That's super cool. I am worried about the potential abuse of this service, are there any existing services that can help to identify audio deep fakes like this one is for making…
searchableguy on HN