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Show HN: Hyper-Emotional AI Voice Acting for Anime and Movies

http://34.67.156.195:8501

Hi HN, I’m using AI video generation to create anime and movies, but AI dubbing has been a major challenge. Most AI voices sound too flat and lack the emotional depth needed for voice acting, where dramatic expression is very important.

That’s why I’m building this voice acting AI that lets you not only choose a voice but also control its emotion. In the Auto Emotion mode, you can include emotion hints in parenthesis to guide the speech generation. It’s still an early demo, but I’d love for you to try it out and share your feedback!

( 6 comments | 4 points | on HN )
Re:Show HN: Hyper-Emotional AI Voice Acting for Anime and Mo... by rolstenhouse on Thursday January 30, 2025 @06:04PM (#42883126)
This is cool. I have a pet project around building voice-enabled toys I'd love to have this level of control when narrating.
Re:Show HN: Hyper-Emotional AI Voice Acting for Anime and Mo... by Sophia_H on Thursday January 30, 2025 @06:47PM (#42883412)
Yep it will awesome to integrate to toys
Re:Show HN: Hyper-Emotional AI Voice Acting for Anime and Mo... by andrewfromx on Thursday January 30, 2025 @04:23PM (#42882320)
i absolutely love it. I've literally been looking for something like this for a while. is it open source?
Re:Show HN: Hyper-Emotional AI Voice Acting for Anime and Mo... by Sophia_H on Thursday January 30, 2025 @04:36PM (#42882430)
Thank you! I haven't made a plan yet - depending on people's feedback, we might make this into a commercial product or an open source project
Re:Show HN: Hyper-Emotional AI Voice Acting for Anime and Mo... by andrewfromx on Thursday January 30, 2025 @04:45PM (#42882485)
all the stuff out there is terrible like:

SSML (Speech Synthesis Markup Language) EMMA (Extensible MultiModal Annotation) EmotionML (Emotion Markup Language)

Bad XML that's hard to use. I like the (simple) approach. Even elevenlabs doesn't do this well!

Re:Show HN: Hyper-Emotional AI Voice Acting for Anime and Mo... by trumbitta2 on Friday January 31, 2025 @03:23AM (#42885669)
Sorry, not https