Ryan Hoover
@rrhoover · Founder, Product Hunt
People often think of Augmented Reality as being purely visual but it has the capability of influencing all of our senses, including what we hear.
Can't wait to clone Morgan Freeman's voice and troll my friends on the phone. 😁
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Eon
@eonpilot · iOS dev @ github.com/eonist
@rrhoover lyrabird is 👌 also TacoTron: https://google.github.io/tacotron/
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Noah Kim
@wuss · Startup in Progress ▓▓▓▓░░░░░░░░ 30%
@rrhoover Only thing that's left is smell-o-vision
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adam mashaal
@adammash · Founder of Being. East Village, NYC
@rrhoover Was excited to try it, but saw it is not available for use yet. Wondering if maybe pre-launch products should be listed separately from the main featured products of the day?
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Mark M. Whelan FRSA
@markmwhelan · Founder, Rapid Reasoning LLC
@adammash @rrhoover I concur, as this is pre-launch, it leads to some disappointment that's it's unavailable.
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Rodolfo Ramirez
@rodolfo_ramz · I grow things and market them. WeGrow
@rrhoover "AR has the capability of influencing all of our senses.." That's definitely a quote to remember!
Yeah - bummed I couldn't try it out yet! Exciting though!!
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Arlo Gilbert
@arlogilbert · Founder & Angel
Mix that with this. Who needs actors anymore? Who knows what's real? Wow.
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Kristen Mozaffari
@zanzaboonda · More than casual hobbyist but not a guru
@arlogilbert Wow! Very cool! Also a bit scary, for the potential harm it could do. Something like this, used for nefarious purposes, could literally start wars. The artist in me loves the idea. And I'm sure lots of commercials will use this, now. But wow. That is scary.
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Davis Sage Das
@davis_sage_das
@arlogilbert Is this software public? (Face2Face)
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Kori Handy
@koridhandy · Design Founder @designfirstapps
@arlogilbert This is super scary, some nerd is going to start WW3 from his basement. This is the kind of tech the government will end up outlawing, and I would support that decision.
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Eon
@eonpilot · iOS dev @ github.com/eonist
Will it replicate David Attenborough? Or Morgan Freeman?
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Noah Kim
@wuss · Startup in Progress ▓▓▓▓░░░░░░░░ 30%
@eonpilot Will it create a Morgan Attenborough hybrid and freaking make everyone go into a catatonic state of narrative mic drop?
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Matt Horton
@mattahorton · APM, Capital One Labs
THIS IS NOT COOL
Y'all. Politics is only gonna get more fucked up with this stuff.
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Eon
@eonpilot · iOS dev @ github.com/eonist
@mattahorton Prank calls will never be the same tho ^^
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Sasank Daggubati
@sasank · Data Scientist, Sears Holdings
How is this product different from adobe's project VoCo? Except for the delivery mechanism. I smell a patent war!
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Eon
@eonpilot · iOS dev @ github.com/eonist
@sasank Can't patent what you cant see. ;)
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Vladislav Belyaev
@vladislav_belyaev · Co-founder & CEO @ Reason8.ai
@sasank yep, also interested, what is the catch and whether this might be pattented already
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Ben Tossell
@bentossell · Community Lead, Product Hunt
This is pretty cool!
Lyrebird will offer an API to copy the voice of anyone. It will need as little as one minute of audio recording of a speaker to compute a unique key defining her/his voice. This key will then allow to generate anything from its corresponding voice. The API will be robust enough to learn from noisy recordings. The following sample illustrates this feature, the samples are not cherry-picked.
Make sure to check out the demos
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Josh Barkin
@joshbarkin · Co-founder @ Janis
This is incredible, but I agree.. as the technology continues to improve, the potential impact of this on fake news is scary.
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Trent Bigelow
@trentbigelow · Cofounder @ Track.tax
Wow... Just listened to the convo back and forth between Obama, Trump and Hillary. Is it just me or is the Trump voice pretty darn close?
@(makers??) Would this get better with more sample audio and transcript data provided? In the case of Trump, how many minutes of audio+text would you need to get a 10X better voice?
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Dale Beaumont
@dale_beaumont · http://BRiN.ai
@trentbigelow also interested to know the answer to this one :-) Hoping one of the makers jumps in here.
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Vladislav Belyaev
@vladislav_belyaev · Co-founder & CEO @ Reason8.ai
@trentbigelow I think definitely, more data - higher quality. But what doubts me is - the amount of computing power needed to make it a public API. WaveNet was a monster in this case.
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Rogue London
@iamroguelondon · Grateful and determined.
Wicked. Cant wait to get into Beta. So many ideas I want to test out with this!
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Doc Daniel
@prayersparkmd · Founder@PrayerSpark, NO religious agenda
The singularity approaches.
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Adam Harms
@_lcky · Writer, Designer
Just because you can doesn't mean you should. Cool tech but hard to imagine the benefits will outweigh the harm it will do.
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Moshe/Moses Isaacian
@mosheimedia · Digital Marketing Consultant
This would be great for reputation management. A lot of artists I work with and that I know don't have the time to appear on video, let alone send a tweet...which can be an issue since their profession thrives on fan interaction.
Having their voice replicated for a short voice message, which can make a difference in converting a casual fan into a superfan, would be huge. I'm watching this closely to see how the speech improves (and I hope I get into the beta!)
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Erick Barron
@erickbarron86 · Internet Marketer
Wow, this is a very original use of artificial intelligence. The vioces do sound a little too synthetic for now - but I trust they will get much better with time.
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Paul Shustak
@paul_shustak · Co-founder karen.care, korwater.com.
Can't wait to try. As a music fan the possibilities seem endless. Write new songs for the Beatles to sing. Hear Sinatra cover Nirvana.
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Jeffrey Wyman
@jeffrey_wyman · At the intersection of Tech and Business
they even put obama, trump, and clinton on the sample page. the next-gen fake news has arrived. god help us.
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Leon VP
@leon_vp · Founder, Eon Life
Please please please do Arnold Schwarzenegger?
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Paul Shapiro
@fighto · Director of Strategy & Innovation
In the context of the "can you hear me?" phone scams, this is terrifying: http://fortune.com/2017/03/28/ye...
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KerryBodle
@liquidchickenqq · Founder: Social-Friendzy.com
Fake news will never be the same again! I'm thinking Eddy Murphy's "Raw" comedy routine with the voice of the Queen Of England!
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Kevin Elliott
@kevinelliott · Founder at @WeLike, @Mused, @HomeTender
A frightening glimpse into the potential of the future.
Pretty soon we will very likely see false recordings of people's likeness, in both audio and video formats, and average people will soon have difficulty identifying what is real and what is manufactured. One can argue that people are already having a problem with reality without this, so you can certainly expect it to exacerbate it.
On the positive side, this will make AI-based automatons and VR much more believable, more useful, and ultimately more pleasant.
It's a brave new world folks.
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Kori Handy
@koridhandy · Design Founder @designfirstapps
@kevinelliott people can't even figure out fake new on Fb, and now you want to through this in the mix too? good lord.... losing hope in humanity, seems like it would do more harm then good..
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Kevin Elliott
@kevinelliott · Founder at @WeLike, @Mused, @HomeTender
@koridhandy Yeah, that's certainly my fear.
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Vinish Garg
@vingar · Co-founder @In23Hours @ContentHug
Be it alcohol, or a bullet. People can use it or misuse it. The onus is on us. :)
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