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Re:Launch HN: Play.ht (YC W23) – Generate and clone voices f... by jeroenhd on Monday March 27, 2023 @01:28PM (#35329578)
Listening to the demos I'm not entirely convinced by this (https://playground.play.ht/listen/189 was pretty funny). I wonder if this company will end up taking down (and subsequently pricing out most people using this tech for fun) arbitrary voice generation just like its competitors have so far.

Going to the demo page and hearing a random snippet of Musk-worship was pretty weird. Out of all audio tracks to place at the top of your demos, you chose this?

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Re:Launch HN: Play.ht (YC W23) – Generate and clone voices f... by yreg on Monday March 27, 2023 @02:56PM (#35330777)
The demo page says 'Recently generated', you have listened to the last snippet someone made.
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Re:Launch HN: Play.ht (YC W23) – Generate and clone voices f... by jeroenhd on Monday March 27, 2023 @03:49PM (#35331453)
I know the demo page was user generated. My Musk comment referred to this page: https://play.ht/ultra-realistic-voices/
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Re:Launch HN: Play.ht (YC W23) – Generate and clone voices f... by SamBam on Tuesday March 28, 2023 @10:12AM (#35341412)
Two(!) of them were about Musk.
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Re:Launch HN: Play.ht (YC W23) – Generate and clone voices f... by mugr on Monday March 27, 2023 @03:03PM (#35330870)
Wow, I call to the team behind this. I really STRONGLY think you should at least implement some sort of URL stealthing. I'm not a Web Security expert, but it reminds me of a talk where some company just made medical records 'public' like this.
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Re:Launch HN: Play.ht (YC W23) – Generate and clone voices f... by h1fra on Monday March 27, 2023 @04:14PM (#35331807)
Oopsie, the infamous id int Auto Increment
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Re:Launch HN: Play.ht (YC W23) – Generate and clone voices f... by airstrike on Monday March 27, 2023 @04:28PM (#35332019)
https://playground.play.ht/listen/1339 and https://playground.play.ht/listen/210 are hilarious
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Re:Launch HN: Play.ht (YC W23) – Generate and clone voices f... by mikrotikker on Monday March 27, 2023 @05:30PM (#35332930)
On the contrary, this should be accessible so we can see what people are generating.
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Re:Launch HN: Play.ht (YC W23) – Generate and clone voices f... by nico on Tuesday March 28, 2023 @12:50AM (#35336060)
> (https://playground.play.ht/listen/189 was pretty funny)

Warning to others wanting to click on the link: damn that was creepy.

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Re:Launch HN: Play.ht (YC W23) – Generate and clone voices f... by andrewstuart on Tuesday March 28, 2023 @01:48AM (#35336431)
It was damn funny.

I’m still laughing five minutes later.

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Re:Launch HN: Play.ht (YC W23) – Generate and clone voices f... by nullsense on Tuesday March 28, 2023 @03:23AM (#35337054)
Ghost in the machine.
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Re:Launch HN: Play.ht (YC W23) – Generate and clone voices f... by noduerme on Tuesday March 28, 2023 @04:20AM (#35337404)
that's pretty fuckin funny. Did you train it to do that?
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Re:Launch HN: Play.ht (YC W23) – Generate and clone voices f... by bunnyswipe_com on Tuesday March 28, 2023 @09:26AM (#35340684)
sounds from hell
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Re:Launch HN: Play.ht (YC W23) – Generate and clone voices f... by juggli on Wednesday March 29, 2023 @11:14AM (#35358460)
damn. scared me
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Re:Launch HN: Play.ht (YC W23) – Generate and clone voices f... by bongobingo1 on Tuesday March 28, 2023 @04:56AM (#35337673)
I see a bright future for play.ht in the "pre-event" audiolog generation market. Somebody get ubisoft on the phone.
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Re:Launch HN: Play.ht (YC W23) – Generate and clone voices f... by WakoMan12 on Tuesday March 28, 2023 @10:55AM (#35342095)
AI can now generate youtube poops
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