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Re:Launch HN: Lyrebird (YC S17) – Create a digital copy of y... by rayalez on Wednesday September 06, 2017 @01:21PM (#15185396)
Sounds amazing! Just to add a usecase - for many people, creating a decent voiceover is one of the big sticking points for producing youtube videos or educational courses. If I could write a script, and have software generate a decent enough voiceover, it would be amazing.

It's not even necessary to copy anyone's voice, as long as there's a selection of the most comprehensible and human-sounding ones.

Then, you could even automatically generate slideshow presentation from a few illustrations and headlines, and that would make "rendering" articles into videos very fast and easy. I'm sure a lot of people would pay for such service.

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By the way, recently I've encountered Deep Voice 2, a similar research project by baidu:

http://research.baidu.com/deep-voice-2-multi-speaker-neural-...

Results are very impressive.

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Re:Launch HN: Lyrebird (YC S17) – Create a digital copy of y... by pavel_lishin on Wednesday September 06, 2017 @03:05PM (#15186242)
I made a joke video for work, featuring clips of Sir David Attenborough narrating a fake nature documentary I cut together from video I took at work.

It would have been an order of magnitude better if I could just generate arbitrary phrases in his voice.

(Or maybe not; maybe the constraint made the video better.)

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Re:Launch HN: Lyrebird (YC S17) – Create a digital copy of y... by joshschreuder on Wednesday September 06, 2017 @07:23PM (#15187947)
I think the constraint makes the video funnier, take for example dinoflask's edits of Blizzard's Jeff Kaplan

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gXTrrTX7YuY

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Re:Launch HN: Lyrebird (YC S17) – Create a digital copy of y... by adbrebs on Wednesday September 06, 2017 @01:35PM (#15185526)
Thank you for sharing that! We had not thought about this specific use case yet. It's quite difficult to figure out which use cases are going to become the most popular.
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Re:Launch HN: Lyrebird (YC S17) – Create a digital copy of y... by schemathings on Wednesday September 06, 2017 @08:07PM (#15188167)
Sounds like the 100 speakers they used were Irish or Scottish.
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Re:Launch HN: Lyrebird (YC S17) – Create a digital copy of y... by aaronsnoswell on Wednesday September 06, 2017 @05:44PM (#15187362)
+1 for this use case!
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