Show HN: Neural text to speech with dozens of celebrity voices
I've built a lot of celebrity text to speech models and host them online:<p><a href="https://vo.codes" rel="nofollow">https://vo.codes</a><p>It has celebrities like Sir David Attenborough and Arnold Schwarzenegger, a bunch of the presidents, and also some engineers: PG, Sam Altman, Peter Thiel, Mark Zuckerberg<p>I'm not far away from a working "real time" [1] voice conversion (VC) system. This turns a source voice into a target voice. The most difficult part is getting it to generalize to new, unheard speakers. I haven't recorded my progress recently, but here are some old rudimentary results that make my voice sound slightly like Trump [2]. If you know what my voice sounds like and you kind of squint at it a little, the results are pretty neat. I'll try to publish newer stuff soon, and that all sounds much better.<p>I was just about to submit all of this to HN (on "new").<p>Edit: well, my post [3] didn't make it (it fell to the second page of new). But I'll be happy to answer questions here.<p>[1] It has about ~1500ms of lag, but I think it can be improved.<p>[2] <a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1vgnq09YjX6pYwf4ubFYHukDafxPNeEpH/view?usp=sharing" rel="nofollow">https://drive.google.com/file/d/1vgnq09YjX6pYwf4ubFYHukDafxP...</a><p>[3] I'm only linking this because it failed to reach popularity. <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23965787" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23965787</a>