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Nicholas Sheriff
@nicholassheriff · Founder, Quest
@rrhoover This really aggravates me to the point of disbelief. I don't understand
This is just a demo of the algorithm we were developing to integrate into Quest using a Concatenative Speech Synthesis approach which is exactly the innovation Ryan is talking about.
https://www.dropbox.com/s/hnkx1k...
I say this with all the love and admiration I posess that you guys have tens of millions in funding a huge team of hundreds.
My startup raised a second seed round and we are now trying to product revenue by focusing on a new project but a team of two is focusing on innovating.
But I get it..Instapaper, Google, Apple none of them offer what you are actually talking about Ryan.
Why isn't Apples $200 billion dollar cash covered war-chest going into innovation like this? WHY HAS A LOT OF OTHER AREAS SEEN disruption BUT this is still a 25 YEARS OLD experience in 2015.
We've had speech synthesis mathematics since the 40s!
Why does it still not work because most is purely “synthesized” speech and not based off of Concatenative synthesis so it's just a computationally-intensive playback that can’t transcend a monotone which is what a human does. In addition to other algorithmic approaches that make this an overall great user experience...that's where innovation comes into play. None of this is as hard as coming up with a general relativity theory..too hard to innovate toward, none of this is insurmountable.
So for the first time in a very long time a #1 product hunt post is not getting an upvote from me...you guys could have truly shined a beacon of hope on innovation in every way, especially to the big guys...true innovation is about adding incremental value that offers not creates more pain.
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Alex Greene
@alexg473 · Cal Poly student
@nicholassheriff what?
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Carl
@cprins_ ·
@nicholassheriff fun fact, by actually commenting we help keep it at #1 😂
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Nicholas Sheriff
@nicholassheriff · Founder, Quest
@alexg473 @nicholassheriff I was pointing out that their was no innovation at all tied to this offering from not a 2 member team but a company that raised tens of millions of dollars in funding and waited years to offer this....like 5 years. Was just stating facts we should all innovate period...this is just a implementation of Apples API without any edits nothing is proprietary about what they have done nothing is innovative tied to this.
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Nicholas Sheriff
@nicholassheriff · Founder, Quest
@nicholassheriff they could have made it better...that's what we expect from companies to innovate. Instead they didn't everyone does it like this I was hoping for something more.
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Alex Greene
@alexg473 · Cal Poly student
@nicholassheriff as far as I'm aware, products are not successful because of the technology they use, but because of how much value they provide.
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Nicholas Sheriff
@nicholassheriff · Founder, Quest
@alexg473 @nicholassheriff I never said that the technology was what is valuable it is the innovation around the experience buddy if you view my last sentence I clearly said this "true innovation is about adding incremental value that offers not creates more pain."...we are in disagreements with the experience I think it isn't adding value..you do, so we're not seeing eye to eye with incremental value increase in this regard.
After 25 years I was expecting not new technology ( none of this is NEW ) but a Incremental Increase in value. Period that is not what is here but you disagree with me on this it seems.
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Nicholas Sheriff
@nicholassheriff · Founder, Quest
@cprins_ @nicholassheriff lol lmao just realized this thanks for the late warning Carl. I'm not like Pocket grr curse you I think it's a good offering from a great team I just wish their was more innovation everywhere and this was an example where I was just shocked.
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