Re:Andrew Mason’s Descript raises $15M and acquires Lyrebird
by kundan2510 on Wednesday September 18, 2019 @11:48AM
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Don't miss the overdub demo: https://www.descript.com/overdub and the demo video: https://www.descript.com/
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Re:Andrew Mason’s Descript raises $15M and acquires Lyrebird
by Game_Ender on Thursday September 19, 2019 @08:15AM
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Most impressive demo and marketing video of a product I have seen in a while.
Re:Andrew Mason’s Descript raises $15M and acquires Lyrebird
by pmart123 on Thursday September 19, 2019 @10:48AM
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Many of the best products seem to come when the founder has enough capital to self fund a solid base product versus needing “metrics” that at such an early stage often track nothing imo.
Re:Andrew Mason’s Descript raises $15M and acquires Lyrebird
by jcims on Thursday September 19, 2019 @08:06AM
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Whoa, that overdub demo is pretty crazy. The inflection in puts into the typed in content is pretty spot-on.
Edit: You can get it to go old school tts synthesis if you feed it kanji letters.
Re:Andrew Mason’s Descript raises $15M and acquires Lyrebird
by bgrynol on Thursday September 19, 2019 @10:08AM
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People will be able to create some serious deep fakes of audio recordings with Overdub. Where it will get really wild is when you can change the voice of the original recording into your "voice of preference" for listening purposes. Ie- instead of Ira Glass narrating This American Life, think what it will be like when you can listen to TAL with Morgan Freeman narrating it!
Re:Andrew Mason’s Descript raises $15M and acquires Lyrebird
by sbuccini on Thursday September 19, 2019 @11:13AM
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As stated in the article, Overdub forces you to read random sentences so you can’t just feed in hours of audio. That being said, this technology is quickly becoming commoditized and I suspect others won’t be as scrupulous.
Re:Andrew Mason’s Descript raises $15M and acquires Lyrebird
by pfranz on Thursday September 19, 2019 @04:09PM
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Their video pokes fun at that: https://youtu.be/Maz0TVyTwiw?t=141
Re:Andrew Mason’s Descript raises $15M and acquires Lyrebird
by yumraj on Thursday September 19, 2019 @09:27AM
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Adobe had demoed similar stuff back in 2016. [0] Not sure what happened to it after that.
[0] https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2016/11/adobe...
Re:Andrew Mason’s Descript raises $15M and acquires Lyrebird
by seren on Thursday September 19, 2019 @09:29AM
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How far can you go with overdub ? Can you just record someone for some time, and then just write a podcast (skipping the actual recording)?
Re:Andrew Mason’s Descript raises $15M and acquires Lyrebird
by jonawesomegreen on Thursday September 19, 2019 @09:35AM
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That is a really great demo. I had way too much fun replacing the text with death ray in almost every example.