Show HN: Airy – Free, fast, and simple voice content creation

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login588
16 hours ago
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jnwatson10 hours ago
All but one of the voices sounds tinny. The timing and cadence was good though.

Is this intended for anime autodubbing? There's only one voice (Rowan) that is remotely traditional broadcaster-style.

saaaaaam14 hours ago
Why did you pick such creepy voices? They are very childlike and weird.
wccrawford13 hours ago
They're definitely anime-style voices, though most of the female ones are very annoying. I couldn't stand to watch an anime with them.
panja13 hours ago
They just sound like anime voices
vezycash7 hours ago
I bet you're talking about like English dubs. The original japanese voices are diverse. Aizen from Bleach, Hakshaku (Millennium Earl) from D. Grayman, Marshal D. Teach from One-piece, and All Might from my hero academia have deep regal voices.
saaaaaam10 hours ago
Right, I’ve never seen an anime, probably for exactly this reason.
satvikpendem8 hours ago
There are good ones without the stereotypical voices, I recommend Fullmetal Alchemist Brotherhood.
Kim_Bruning12 hours ago
You know, I never did find out why people dub anime with such unnatural voices.
Figs10 hours ago
The voice actors usually try to match the timing of the mouth flaps in the animation. It's hard to do that while also conveying the meaning of what is said correctly (enough) -- and practically impossible to do that while sounding natural in English too.
Kim_Bruning10 hours ago
That doesn't help for sure, but the intonation is ... odd.
MissTake7 hours ago
As with seemingly all AI these days - it seems to fail with prosody and simply speaks the very next word with zero regard to the nuance or cadence that author intended, or an understanding of any the words being spoken.

When AI achieves the ability to deliver some of Shakespeare’s greatest soliloquies or monologues, then I’ll pay attention.

jonathaneunice2 hours ago
Prosody is hard. No AI voice I've heard really nails voice generation with fully smooth and human-like cadence and quality, but they're gradually getting better. Airy voices sound a bit tinny and childish, but even so, they're better than many I've heard, including for the elusive "humanness" quality.
AnuragPathapall11 hours ago
Great, Working fast and cool. You can also try to adding some more voices from different parts of the world.
recensorium15 hours ago
This is cool! What model are you using?
login58814 hours ago
Thanks! Airy runs on a proprietary TTS model that we built in-house, rather than a third-party model.
recensorium12 hours ago
Wow! Well done that's really impressive.
petek_dev12 hours ago
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