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Re:Launch HN: Lyrebird (YC S17) – Create a digital copy of your voice on Wednesday September 06, 2017 @06:21PM (#15187604)
You can!
Re:Launch HN: Lyrebird (YC S17) – Create a digital copy of your voice on Wednesday September 06, 2017 @06:12PM (#15187559)
We accept hotmail. It might be because of some special characters. Do you use + ?
Re:Launch HN: Lyrebird (YC S17) – Create a digital copy of your voice on Wednesday September 06, 2017 @06:10PM (#15187547)
Can you refresh and try again? Let me know if it works.
Re:Launch HN: Lyrebird (YC S17) – Create a digital copy of your voice on Wednesday September 06, 2017 @04:25PM (#15186849)
Yes, this is a tricky subject! We have thought a lot about it and we think we are doing the right thing for society.

We write more about it here: https://lyrebird.ai/ethics/

Re:Launch HN: Lyrebird (YC S17) – Create a digital copy of your voice on Wednesday September 06, 2017 @04:12PM (#15186742)
This is just a beta version. In the future, we expect to integrate the tech with some other apps.
Re:Launch HN: Lyrebird (YC S17) – Create a digital copy of your voice on Wednesday September 06, 2017 @04:08PM (#15186712)
Yes! This is what our lawyers suggested to protect ourselves.

We delete all the recordings when you click delete, so we can't recreate the voice anymore. However, this is still necessary in case we share some generated sentences in social media or so (like we're doing on twitter now).

Re:Launch HN: Lyrebird (YC S17) – Create a digital copy of your voice on Wednesday September 06, 2017 @03:14PM (#15186315)
Hi! Thanks for testing it! For many voices it works well with only 30 recordings. For some, you need a bit more. It seems that quality of the audio (no background noise, clear and loud voice, lots of intonation) is what matters the most.
Re:Lyrebird beta – Create your voice avatar on Monday September 04, 2017 @03:19AM (#15166360)
It's important to make people realize that this technology is here. It's impossible to stop the technological advances but at least we can reduce their impact by making it well known.