[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":579},["ShallowReactive",2],{"project-29786132":3},{"id":4,"name":5,"line":6,"line_source":7,"title":8,"url":9,"domain":10,"maker":11,"posted_at":12,"year":13,"points":14,"comments":15,"rank_in_year":16,"shown_in_year":17,"top":18,"tier":19,"category":20,"subcategory":21,"format":22,"keywords":23,"reception":27,"sentiment":28,"stance_mix":29,"scored_comments":34,"aspects":35,"strip":47,"post_text":50,"what":51,"said":78,"maker_in_thread":196,"shape":204,"grid":208,"attempts":535,"same_week":542,"maker_shows":40,"maker_hidden":571,"reader_version":572,"card":573},"29786132","Coqui","Clone your voice and speak a foreign language","title","Show HN: Clone your voice and speak a foreign language","https:\u002F\u002Fcoqui.ai\u002F","coqui.ai","_josh_meyer_",1641241035,2022,513,112,50,2570,2,"legend","ai","voice cloning","web_app",[21,24,25,26],"text to speech","zero-shot tts","speech synthesis","mixed",0.025,{"positive":30,"neutral":31,"mixed":32,"critical":33},15,34,6,14,69,{"performance":36,"idea":38,"privacy":41,"execution":43,"design":44,"docs":45,"pricing":46},{"positive":37,"critical":32},7,{"positive":39,"critical":40},5,1,{"positive":42,"critical":39},0,{"positive":42,"critical":40},{"positive":42,"critical":42},{"positive":42,"critical":40},{"positive":42,"critical":42},[39,39,48,42,42,42,42,42,42,42,42,42,40,48,49,39,49,48,48,40,48,48,48,40,42,48,48,48,18,39,39,18,48,48,48,48,18,39,18,39],3,4,null,{"problem":52,"audience":50,"pricing":50,"motivation":50,"time_to_build":50,"stack":66,"openness":75,"stage":76,"team_size":77},{"value":53,"source":54,"evidence":55},"Lets people hear their own voice speaking another language from a short sample","inferred",[56,58,62],{"id":57},"post",{"id":59,"by":60,"text":61},"29788311","bengalister","I am French and I did try it, recording my voice in English (I have a thick French accent to English speaking ears, ok for French ones). And the result back in French was kind of…",{"id":63,"by":64,"text":65},"29787040","SwiftyBug","I speak Brazilian Portuguese natively. I chose to record my voice saying a specific sentence and to \"translate\" it to Brazilian Portuguese using the exact same sentence. I was…",[67],{"value":68,"source":69,"evidence":70},"Gradio","commenter",[71],{"id":72,"by":73,"text":74},"29788956","zuhayeer","Pretty neat! Was poking around on the site, and under the hood the interface to upload and render the audio is powered by Gradio: https:\u002F\u002Fgradio.app\u002F","open_source","launched","company",{"praise":79,"objections":104,"requests":139,"questions":162,"alternatives":181},[80,96],{"value":81,"source":69,"evidence":82},"Impressive voice cloning quality and cross-language results",[83,87,91,92],{"id":84,"by":85,"text":86},"29787205","pcarolan","This is incredibly impressive and does a great job of capturing my voice. Well done!",{"id":88,"by":89,"text":90},"29791212","bernardom","This is very cool. I recorded myself in Portuguese -> Portuguese and got the same result. I also did Pt -> En and sounded like... me speaking English, though with some artifacts.…",{"id":59,"by":60,"text":61},{"id":93,"by":94,"text":95},"29789818","thejosh","This is great, my wife actually thought it was me speaking for a moment when she first came in!",{"value":97,"source":69,"evidence":98},"Fun and cool to try",[99,100],{"id":63,"by":64,"text":65},{"id":101,"by":102,"text":103},"29788199","actually_a_dog","You spoke Portuguese into it and it just changed your accent? That's kinda cool.",[105,124],{"value":106,"source":69,"evidence":107},"Voice sounds nothing like the user in many tests",[108,112,116,120],{"id":109,"by":110,"text":111},"29789101","gambiting","As someone who actually speaks two languages - gave it a voice sample in Polish, then used it to synthesize the voice in English - sounds absolutely nothing like me. Meh.",{"id":113,"by":114,"text":115},"29788736","carbonx","I just tried it and it sounds nothing at all like me. shrug",{"id":117,"by":118,"text":119},"29786737","sxv","My 26 second training input perhaps wasn't enough. The result sounded like someone else. Is the result some kind of merger of my voice and a native speaker's?",{"id":121,"by":122,"text":123},"29793022","perryizgr8","I spoke for about a minute in English, having no idea what is the ideal length for it to properly figure out my voice. The result sounded like someone else completely. 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The idea of having a model of my voice out there that can say whatever is written in a text box is scary.",{"id":132,"by":133,"text":134},"29788875","Ice_cream_suit","Great opportunity for criminals and state actors to take identity theft to the next level.",{"id":136,"by":137,"text":138},"29786625","alonmln","Cool, it's impressive how much can it do with a short sample, although this seems like an easy way for end users to deep fake their friends \u002F enemies saying something.",[140,151],{"value":141,"source":69,"evidence":142},"Static demo without needing your own voice",[143,147],{"id":144,"by":145,"text":146},"29787459","bagels","Is there a static demo that I don't have to provide my own voice for?",{"id":148,"by":149,"text":150},"29787503","kdavis","We did not provide such a demo in part to hinder nefarious uses of the technology.",{"value":152,"source":69,"evidence":153},"Better accent handling and translation fidelity",[154,158],{"id":155,"by":156,"text":157},"29786921","jeroenhd","Interesting. I like the addition of music to make sure it's not just a raw voice sample. The output I get seems to be a mix of a native speaker and my voice, because my (thick)…",{"id":159,"by":160,"text":161},"29787229","akeck","Is it supposed to translate or just read with the target accent? For me, it's only reading the English input text with the target accent.",[163,170],{"value":164,"source":69,"evidence":165},"How does the company plan to make money given open releases",[166],{"id":167,"by":168,"text":169},"29787493","echelon","This is so cool! Thank you! How do y'all intend to profit (succeed as a startup) if you're releasing so much publicly? I'd love to see you guys succeed. Really great to see where…",{"value":171,"source":69,"evidence":172},"Is the model available offline and how heavy is it",[173,177],{"id":174,"by":175,"text":176},"29810925","rambojazz","Can tools like this exist in offline mode only? Or do they require some high-power computers for the model?",{"id":178,"by":179,"text":180},"29787279","momolo","is the model available?",[182,189],{"value":183,"source":69,"evidence":184},"End-to-end speech translation research from Google",[185],{"id":186,"by":187,"text":188},"29788770","forgotmyoldacc","This is called end-to-end speech translation, and has been around since 2017. Here's an article from 2019:…",{"value":190,"source":69,"evidence":191},"Spleeter for removing background music",[192],{"id":193,"by":194,"text":195},"29791194","marcan_42","You can probably run the output through Spleeter[1] and get rid of the background music very easily. Just throw more AI at the problem... It's very hard to curb intentional…",{"comments":18,"answered":18,"key":197},[198,201],{"id":199,"text":200},"29788098","very much intentional. 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