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Comment by sammyyyyyyy

1 day ago

As I said, some reference voices can lead to bad voice quality. But if it sounds that bad, it’s probably not it. Would love to dig into it if you want

I agree with the comment above. I have not logged into hacker news in _years_ but did so today just to weigh in here. If people are saying that the audio sounds great, then there is definitely something going on with a subset of users where we are only hearing garbled words with a LOT of distortion. This does not sound like natural speech to met at all. It sounds more like a warped cassette tape. And I do not mean to slight your work at all. I am actually incredibly puzzled here to understand why my perception of this is so radically different from others!

  • Thank you for commenting. I wonder if this could be another situation like "the dress" (2015) or maybe something is wrong with our codecs...

    • No, nothing wrong with your codecs. It's sounds shitty. But given the small size and speed it's still impressive.

      It's like saying .kkrieger looks like a bad game, which it does, but then again .kkrieger is only 96kb or whatever.

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I mean I'm talking about the mp4. How could people possibly be worried about scammers after listening to that?

  • I didn’t specially cherry pick those examples. You can try it anyway for yourself. But thanks for the feedback anyway

    • No shade on you. It's definitely impressive. I just didn't understand people's reactions.