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louisjoejordan··on ElevenLabs Music v2.5
1. Hopefully this should be fixed for you now 2. We're working very hard to get those 2 numbers aligned
louisjoejordan··on ElevenLabs Music v2.5
I came up with the name Muse before Meta did so this was painful
louisjoejordan··on ElevenLabs Music v2.5
Which part do you hate the most?
louisjoejordan··on ElevenLabs Music v2.5
I'll take perfectly listenable
louisjoejordan··on ElevenLabs Music v2.5
Thank you!
louisjoejordan··on ElevenLabs Music v2.5
Curious to know what you'd like to see in this space ^
louisjoejordan··on ElevenLabs Music v2.5
Engineer on ElevenMusic (so discount accordingly). I like to think of the model as an instrument - something you can sit with for hours and get better at. The people who stick around the most treat it that way (they write their own lyrics, upload half finished songs as reference, bring their own voice back from old recordings etc..). For example my dad was in a band in the 80s and stopped writing music and it's fun to see him make it again.

Every time a barrier drops (samplers, synths, autotune, GarageBand, sample packs) this argument gets made and it is partly right. Plenty of what gets made on our platform is complete slop but if your only contribution to a song was a "make a pop song" prompt that's what you deserve. You are right that nobody was ever short of music - but many people are short of a way to make it so we build for them.

louisjoejordan··on ElevenLabs Music v2.5
Same here - the pieces exist & our music model can now do voice + sfx + music in a single generation (5 min limit so these were chained together to form longer pieces).

I made some here with our last model: https://elevenmusic.io/artists/elevenmusic-spaces

louisjoejordan··on ElevenLabs Music v2.5
I'm an engineer on elevenmusic and we are working hard to restore availability (which has been sporadic over the last 10 minutes). We're working very hard behind the scenes to bring it back online.
louisjoejordan··on Show HN: Sounds – Infinite funk fusion rhodes licks (or any other loop you want)
Very nice!
louisjoejordan··on Show HN: ElevenLabs UI shadcn/UI components for audio
Try hitting the sparkley button at the top!
louisjoejordan··on Eleven v3
quick note that that voice selection matters a lot with our new v3 model, especially voice language!

We have a curated list of v3 voices in the library, but feel free to try others to find what works. Make sure language <> voice language match.

louisjoejordan··on Eleven v3
Might take a few tries, but it will.
louisjoejordan··on A guide on how to prompt engineer voice AI agents
I put together a guide on prompt engineering for voice agents. It breaks down six core elements. Feedback welcome, what have you found works best?
louisjoejordan··on Show HN: A guide on how to prompt engineer effective voice agents
Apologies sir
louisjoejordan··on Show HN: Talk to Santa x ElevenLabs – A Santa you can talk to
We should be releasing the voice next week.
louisjoejordan··on Show HN: Talk to Santa x ElevenLabs – A Santa you can talk to
Very strange - let me look into this. Thanks for flagging.
louisjoejordan··on Show HN: Talk to Santa x ElevenLabs – A Santa you can talk to
Thanks for the feedback - What do you mean by the censor? As in safety moderation? For this specific agent I had to prompt it very carefully to makes sure people wouldn't ask Santa for anything dangerous :)

Billing component is noted, round-up doesn't seem fair. Let me check this.

louisjoejordan··on Show HN: Talk to Santa x ElevenLabs – A Santa you can talk to
Thanks! We created a custom professional voice clone for this purpose using a voice actor. Let me check with Santa to see if we have permission to make his voice public :)
louisjoejordan··on Show HN: Talk to Santa x ElevenLabs – A Santa you can talk to
The code is open-source: https://github.com/elevenlabs/elevenlabs-examples/tree/main/...
louisjoejordan··on Show HN: V1 – An open-source starter kit for your next project
Good choice!
louisjoejordan··on Show HN: V1 – An open-source starter kit for your next project
Fantastic work on this project—I'm really impressed! I have a quick question regarding the license: Since it's under AGPL, are there any specific limitations or considerations we should be aware of if we want to use this in our own projects? I'm curious about how this might impact our ability to use this as a template.
louisjoejordan··on Behind the YC Curtain – Raising $500k in 10 minutes
Thanks for your feedback - would love to know how I can do better next time. I definitely want to focus on improving substance next time - is there anything I can do to help with this? Admittedly I had to make the intro a bit clickbaity to gather interest. Is there another strategy that has worked for you? Appreciate the time you spent writing this comment nonetheless.
louisjoejordan··on Show HN: Open-source BI and analytics for engineers
Someone else added this as an issue! We're happy to take a look at it. To gage interest please upvote it :)

https://github.com/quarylabs/quary/issues/4

louisjoejordan··on Show HN: Open-source BI and analytics for engineers
Hitting us with the hard questions! And honestly this is something people overlook about the realities of the data space.

It's always easier to communicate what you are not, so let's begin there:

- drag and drop query builder - absolute prettiest graphs - tailored to the least sophisticated user

In addition to what I think we are not, I think there is some space for our belief about what the data space is/is not:

- We don't think data self-serve is possible but rather small datasets can be tailored. Fundamentally it comes down to complexity and data is complex. It takes expertise/skill to get value from data.

- It takes experts to get value from data, but as systems get better it will take fewer.

- Businesses should not be data driven, they should be reason driven.

- We don't think data dominates business, it's a supporting tool and so we don't think it will every the entry point for everything but rather supports process, so we want to appear in places where we can support that reasoning, like a chart in a Notion doc.

Now a few bits about what we are:

- Tool for those experts and engineers

- Tool to make them the most productive ever

- Prevent messes that people get themselves in in BI by injecting software engineering practices into the process (we know many companies with full time employees responsible for cleaning up messes)

louisjoejordan··on Show HN: Open-source BI and analytics for engineers
That's useful feedback for us! We can improve our messaging.

The simple answer is yes: Our focus is code first, from modeling to charts and dashboards, and not self-serve.

We often found that keeping BI applications/dashboards organized is very difficult so we're adding engineering practices.

louisjoejordan··on Show HN: Open-source BI and analytics for engineers
No sign in needed!
louisjoejordan··on Show HN: Open-source BI and analytics for engineers
From what I can see, OpenDashboard is tackling workflow automation tasks. We're more focused on the data modelling process.
louisjoejordan··on Show HN: Open-source BI and analytics for engineers
We're big fans of the Evidence team. While there's some overlap, we have a heavier focus on data modelling (similar to dbt). The key difference is we've rebuilt the modelling layer in Rust, leveraging WASM for better performance and browser-based execution. This lets us build a more seamless, end-to-end workflow encompassing transformation + viz optimised for the web.
louisjoejordan··on Show HN: Open-source BI and analytics for engineers
I think so too, will put this as a to-do.
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