ilyausorov

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CTO @ BoldVoice (YC S21)
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Comment · 3 months ago
Really awesome work! I've been trying to do some of this real time back and forth voice coaching myself and it's no easy feat. Congrats on the progress.
Comment · 1 year ago
For sure the voice standardization model is not perfect, but it was important for us to do especially for the voice privacy. It’s still pretty early tech.
Comment · 1 year ago
Thanks, we love you too
Comment · 1 year ago
Yeh they seem to be in the same "major" cluster, although Serbian/Croatian, Romanian, Bulgarian, Turkish, Polish and Czech are all close.

Turkish and Persian seem to be the nearest neighbors.

Comment · 1 year ago
Plotly is great! Much love.
Comment · 1 year ago
Yeh, we would've loved to see that too. It's on our roadmap for sure. Same for some of the other languages with a large amount of unique accents like e.g. French, Chinese, Arabic, etc...
Comment · 1 year ago
Nothing too secret in there! We anonymized everything and anyway it's just a basic Plotly plot. Feel free to check it out.
Comment · 1 year ago
Good question! It's likely because there are lots of different accents of Spanish that are distinct from each other. Our labels only capture the native language of the speaker right now, so they're all grouped together but it's definitely on our to-do list to go deeper into the sub accents of each language family!
Comment · 1 year ago
Amazing! If you can make it go viral again too, I will love you!
Comment · 1 year ago
Comment · 1 year ago
Correct, not LLM
Comment · 1 year ago
Indeed yeah that’s one of the key weaknesses of the approach that we’re using. It overrides the speakers cadence and accent while keeping their voice profile / timbre in place. Different techniques may not do this but also may not copy over the accent to the resulting clip as effectively. So far we’re using this to support pedagogical (and lead-gen) use cases where we think it works sufficiently enough.

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