What is voiceDNA™?
The voiceDNA™ mobile app is a social platform for exchanging voice messages. The cool part is that you don’t have to actually say anything to send a voice message. The underlying voiceDNA™ technology analyzes your texts and synthesizes your voice messages automatically. Not with Siri’s voice, not with Alexa’s voice, but with your voice. You can record a voice message the typical way, and voiceDNA™ will transcribe it automatically. There is also profile protection, whereby you have to receive multiple messages to fully reveal the other party’s profile. Your results and experiences may vary, but please give it a try and let us know your feedback. Support for Chinese, Korean and more are in the pipeline.
How is voiceDNA™ useful?
People have been using voiceDNA™ for the following:
- personalized text-to-speech (TTS)
- voice messaging
- improving enunciation and pronunciation
- language exchange (English, Chinese, French, Italian, etc.)
- meeting new friends
- dating
How do I get text-to-speech for my own voice?
There are two ways to get text-to-speech for your own voice: exchanging voice messages with other users when you chat and providing voice samples through the voiceDNA™ trainer. With the latter, you would provide no more than 1 hour of your voice recordings.
To use the voiceDNA™ trainer: Listen to the voice samples and record your own according to the scripted prompts. Pronounce and enunciate as clearly as you can in a quiet setting to get the best results. Once your recordings sound good to voiceDNA™, you can save and continue. After reaching 100%, you can start using text-to-speech with your own voice.
To use the voiceDNA™ trainer: Listen to the voice samples and record your own according to the scripted prompts. Pronounce and enunciate as clearly as you can in a quiet setting to get the best results. Once your recordings sound good to voiceDNA™, you can save and continue. After reaching 100%, you can start using text-to-speech with your own voice.
How can I practice my English?
You can exchange voice messages with new friends and use the voiceDNA™ trainer to practice and test your pronunciation and enunciation. The voiceDNA™ trainer will tell you what it heard and keep track of your progress. More languages including Chinese and Korean are in the pipeline, so stay tuned.
Why can't I see his/her profile picture?
We think people care too much about pictures and don't have a nice conversation, so we made it such that you can't see the other person's picture until you talk with them enough to uncover their profile. As you chat with each other and get to know one another, the profile gradually reveals itself. It currently takes 25 messages to fully reveal a profile picture.
How do I make a voice broadcast for my profile?
If a voiceDNA™ member has a voice broadcast available, you will see the broadcast icon next to their profile in the users list. Tap on the icon to play their broadcast. To record your own broadcast, tap into your profile. Record your broadcast by tapping on the big red button. This page also saves your previous broadcasts. Only the latest recording will be accessible from the users list.
Why use DNA?
DNA symbolizes how we bind, grow, and replicate together as a strong social network. Both strands of the DNA are connected and resilient. DNA also stores information that determines how we are all unique and alike. Each of our voices is unique, but we can still communicate in the same languages. From a technological perspective, the voiceDNA™ technology seeks to identify the DNA for each of our voices.
Who are Talky and Smiley?
Talky and Smiley are the two sides of a conversation connecting like the two strands of the DNA. Talky likes to talk. Smiley is happy to listen. Are you a Talky, or are you a Smiley?
What's the vision, what's the future?
As I think about how every aspect of life is being disrupted by Artificial Intelligence and virtualization, voice technologies is one of the most exciting and underdeveloped areas. Why is it that we have to listen to Alexa’s voice or Siri’s voice? Perhaps you prefer to program your doorbell to greet guests with your own voice and wake up to an alarm that is your mom yelling at you. Robot clones of humans would be more complete with voice. Given the latest advancements in Artificial Intelligence and machine learning paradigms, this feat is more effectively achieved than ever.
I’ve developed voiceDNA™ to solve the problems necessary to make personalized speech synthesis and voice recognition practical and ubiquitous in daily life. voiceDNA™ consists of a vertical stack of technologies, ranging from the web API server, data store and machine learning backend to the client-side mobile app interface. The voiceDNA™ mobile app is a social platform for exchanging voice messages and also serves to procure and synthesize human speech. To facilitate frequent and engaging interaction on the mobile app, all voice messages are limited to 5 seconds and the other party’s profile is gradually revealed as they converse more with you. The fastest way to obtain your personalized speech synthesis, also known as text-to-speech (TTS), is to provide voice samples for scripts we prepared.
I’m excited about all this because pretty soon you won’t have to actually say anything for your voice to be heard.
-- Art
https://art.wangperawong.com
I’ve developed voiceDNA™ to solve the problems necessary to make personalized speech synthesis and voice recognition practical and ubiquitous in daily life. voiceDNA™ consists of a vertical stack of technologies, ranging from the web API server, data store and machine learning backend to the client-side mobile app interface. The voiceDNA™ mobile app is a social platform for exchanging voice messages and also serves to procure and synthesize human speech. To facilitate frequent and engaging interaction on the mobile app, all voice messages are limited to 5 seconds and the other party’s profile is gradually revealed as they converse more with you. The fastest way to obtain your personalized speech synthesis, also known as text-to-speech (TTS), is to provide voice samples for scripts we prepared.
I’m excited about all this because pretty soon you won’t have to actually say anything for your voice to be heard.
-- Art
https://art.wangperawong.com