[HN Gopher] Lirebird - a simple and powerful voice changer for L...
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Lirebird - a simple and powerful voice changer for Linux, written
in GTK 3
Author : app4soft
Score : 49 points
Date : 2022-05-05 18:40 UTC (4 hours ago)
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| cercatrova wrote:
| Not to be confused with the other Lyrebird:
|
| https://www.descript.com/lyrebird
|
| https://www.descript.com/overdub
| monkeybutton wrote:
| For a moment I excited that they released their work open
| source..
| rexreed wrote:
| Would be nice to have some demos with the original voice and the
| changed voice so we can hear what they sound like.
| echelon wrote:
| I'm about to release a product on https://FakeYou.com that does
| real time voice conversion to a target voice. The quality is
| so-so, but I think we'll improve it quickly.
|
| You can see demos of our voice conversion on
| https://storyteller.io near the middle of the page (section
| "3"), where my voice is converted into Donald Trump's voice. (I
| know, I should have used SpongeBob. We're going to have better
| product demos soon.)
|
| (We're hiring if you're interested in virtual production.
| VTubing, Hollywood deepfakes and production pipeline inversion,
| or even SasS marketing tools.)
| dale_glass wrote:
| Just tried it, it's just a pitch adjustment. A fine start, but
| I wouldn't call it "powerful".
|
| Even old versions of this kind of thing are far more varied,
| eg: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sz53Dk37m-0
|
| It's easy to try, just clone and run ./lyrebird, it runs right
| from the tree.
| dheera wrote:
| Would be super interesting if we could create a GAN-based version
| of this for audio calls that could change your voice into a white
| male or whatever is necessary for the person on the other end to
| not impart negative biases on their hiring/investment/business
| decisions based on your voice.
|
| If they accept you for a job and then discover only later that
| you're actually female or non-white it'd be a big red flag if
| they rejected you only after seeing your face.
| wrycoder wrote:
| I think you have it backwards.
| victor9000 wrote:
| If someone shows up sounding completely different than they did
| in the interview then I think most people would assume that the
| candidate had someone else take the interview for them,
| resulting in a massive red flag.
| CameronNemo wrote:
| Sure, but if the interview was about actual qualifications
| and skills, then it should not matter.
|
| Even better, companies that were truly dedicated to diversity
| in hiring could remove names from any materials shown to
| interviewers and tell interviewees to use the same voice
| changer.
| nonrandomstring wrote:
| People have a rather poor memory and recognition of voices
| they're not familiar with. By the time it's been through
| cellphone codecs (linear predictive coding that basically
| resynthesises your voice using a handful of parameters) it's
| a wonder we can tell one speaker from another.
|
| How we do it is to listen for other features of speech,
| accent and vowels, speed, rhythm, prosody, intonation,
| anomalies like glottal noise, dropped H's, nasal formant,
| murmuring diphongs.. the things that make us unique.
|
| Impressionists (mimics) learn those. If they're not present
| in the source signal it's not easy to change or add them
| unless you move the whole signal to an intermediate form
| (speech to text) and then resynthesis the whole show (TTS)
| via a full articulation model that has those anomalous
| features.
|
| If you get any good at this the people who you will piss-off
| are banks and folks who use voice as a blind authenticator
| (hint: your bank already does if you call them).
| jandrese wrote:
| Seems like it is written in Python using GTK3, but they are
| apparently writing version 2 in C.
| 29athrowaway wrote:
| What do you need a voice changer for?
|
| Does it have to do with Twitch?
| smoldesu wrote:
| I used it a lot in multiplayer game lobbies to spin elaborate
| over-the-mic dramas involving a deep-voiced man and his anal-
| retentive mom. Makes for great fun if you can get your friends
| in on the action!
| 29athrowaway wrote:
| Don't use Freudian terminology. Freud theories = debunked
| pseudoscience.
| cardiffspaceman wrote:
| If the joke lands because "we all" understand this debunked
| pseudoscience, what's the harm? If it doesn't land because
| no one understands Freud anymore, that makes OP a bad
| comedian.
| kaladin-jasnah wrote:
| I contend that OP's usage of Freudian stage theory in a
| comic and mischievous scenario is an excellent usage of
| "debunked pseudoscience" that should be avoided in
| scenarios where it matters.
| remexre wrote:
| Joking around with friends seems reason enough
| olddustytrail wrote:
| It's spelled Lyre Bird, not Lire (the spelling is correct in the
| repo, just wrong in the title).
|
| Not much else to say. Here's a lyrebird imitating a chainsaw:
| https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=mSB71jNq-yQ
| metadat wrote:
| Why is it Linux-only?
|
| If it can do real-time mutation into the Ghostface voice (from
| Scream), that would be awesome and creepy AF.
| aendruk wrote:
| "I decided to write this as a tool for myself" and presumably
| the author uses Linux. Seeing as it's permissively licensed I
| doubt they'd interfere if someone wanted to port it to other
| platforms.
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