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PrettyErrors is great! Thx)

the app is also available for android

Parodist is a text-to-speech mobile app that uses AI technology to sound personalized messages in voices of famous politicians, celebs, and tech leaders.

Our early users love the opportunity to congratulate their friends with the personalized audio of Taylor Swift or prank their family members with the video of Barack Obama endorsing them for the POTUS position. Now, we have 45 voices, and we’re constantly adding new ones.

It’s fun, safe, and easy to use. Just enter any name into the template and get the video or audio voiced.

Thank you! We hired parodists to collect training data for voices with full access, one parodist did Homer and Cartman, and another did Rick, this is why there is a difference. On the backend, we use a microservices with models on a GPU server (AWS) and a simple web service with Django and Amazon Aurora (serverless). The application was made with react-native for both platforms at once.

Hey Hacker News!

I’m Vladimir, founder and CEO of the Parodist app. I’m very excited to share our app with you.

Parodist is a text-to-speech mobile app that uses AI technology to sound personalized messages in voices of famous politicians, celebs, and tech leaders.

Our early users love the opportunity to congratulate their friends with the personalized audio of Taylor Swift or prank their family members with the video of Barack Obama endorsing them for the POTUS position. Now, we have 45 voices, and we’re constantly adding new ones.

It’s fun, safe, and easy to use. Just enter any name into the template and get the video or audio voiced.

We’d be glad to hear your feedback and discuss any questions here. Also, you may reach out to us at [email protected].

P.S. We’re also open to any kind of b2b inquires as we have simple and fast API. We already have some business cases, such as sounding articles on the website of the popular radio station; sounding messages that come along with donations during streaming; recreation of the voice of the passed away person for the documentary, etc. For more info you may contact us at the email below.

Agree

Yes, this could be a problem, but we're thinking to solve it by signing an additional NDA. But I'm not sure that this is a good solution...

Great! I will write to you.

Thanks, I think we will try it too.

Yes, sure. We understand that we have to invest a lot of time in training. Have you ever considered a trial hiring for evaluation of fit with your team? We're thinking of trying it.

Got it, thank you. Yes, I think we are ready to invest time in mentoring grads

I just shared this post with my co-founders

Yes, I agree with you that how candidates speak as well as look like shouldn’t be the right criteria for decision-making.

But speaking about video-interviewing, what if there was a smart virtual assistant that can analyze more information during the interview and answer any of your questions about an offered position and a company? In this case, you don't need to schedule time with a recruiter, you can just go throw an interview at any convenient time.

And if this assistant was able to analyze more information, maybe, it could provide you with a better job position. The assistant could improve the hiring decision without any bias, taking into account only professional skills. This could be more valuable for both sides – employer and employee.

This assistant could also give feedback to candidates, helping them to prepare for the interview and asking some test questions. That could help the candidate understand more about the job position requirements

Do you think it could be better, if an assessment is done with artificial intelligence, without human interaction at all?

Yes, I've heard about this problem. In this case, you as an employer have to change your questions for each new interview. There are some assessment apps that can do this task automatically for you.