Hacker News Reader

Comment by spaceman_2020 | Hacker News Reader

spaceman_2020

I’m an amateur music producer and vocals are by far the toughest part of making music. I have to find a singer, convince them to work with me (I am an amateur and not particularly good tbh), and book studio space because its very tough to get a clean recording at home.

I’m hoping that like digital instruments, I’ll be able to splice in digital voices instead of finding singers.

View on HN

This already exists, ex. Audimee: https://audimee.com/

And the millions of other RVC websites. Musicfy, Uberduck, Coversai, Kitsai, FakeYou, Voicemyai, Voicify, Bangerapp, Tryreplay, Weightsgg ...

RVC is so easy anyone can spin up a website for it. No moat. Over a hundred thousand trained weights files in the open, so it's easy to bootstrap.

For anybody else who also hadn't come across the term RVC before:

"The RVC model is a Retrieval-based Voice Conversion system using AI for high-quality voice cloning. It utilizes artificial intelligence to modify or clone voices in real-time." Source: https://speechify.com/blog/rvc-vocal-models/

Wow. I'm going to give each family member a password and make them prove that they're real when they call me :)

or go pro and issue a One Time Pad to each of them.

Would make a nice vignette in a film about a dystopian future where video can be be generated cheaply and of sufficient quality.

Great, so the competition is going to yield cheap services with a nice UX.

Now if only the prices would drop and I could start making custom audiobooks for the price of regular audiobooks.

Yeah but I tried Audimee too and they are working on giving best quality voices. It is not about u train or use RVC, it is about quality and save time.

An English language and accent bias in most current models

https://voice-swap.ai/ may be of interest, you can covert your rough singing to use a real singer's voice (apparently! I've not tried it)

This is already somewhat available (check out Dreamtomics Synthesizer V and the voices like Solaris etc)

I have been using Synthesizer V for a lot of my music and the quality is very high, even with little manual tuning. There are a lot of voices to choose from now, and they added a cross-synthesis feature which lets you use the voices originally intended for Japanese and Chinese in English, and they don’t have a strong accent (I do find that I have to mess with the lyrics input a little). Also SAROS is coming out which has experimental Spanish support.

Definitely recommend looking up some Synthesizer V covers to see how realistic singing voice synthesis has become in recent years. It’s also free to try lower quality versions of the voices.

Save your money and record at home under a blanket.

Closet full of jackets works too. That’s what a lot of podcasters do when traveling

They also do pillow forts, e.g. http://PillowFortStudios.com/

Layered towels are surprisingly capable too

Or if you want to feel a little fancy, a 3-sided folding project board with foam glued to it.

Reply on news.ycombinator.com