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:https://vo.codesIt has celebrities like Sir David Attenborough and Arnold Schwarzenegger, a bunch of the presidents, and also some engineers: PG, Sam Altman, Peter Thiel, Mark ZuckerbergI'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.I was just about to submit all of this to HN (on "new").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.[1] It has about ~1500ms of lag, but I think it can be improved.[2] https://drive.google.com/file/d/1vgnq09YjX6pYwf4ubFYHukDafxP...[3] I'm only linking this because it failed to reach popularity. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23965787