Better voices for the BART trains in the Bay Area! 7 HN points • 09 Mar 23 🎭️ Culture Technology Transportation Voice Artificial Intelligence Nostalgia Rime Labs is proposing better voices for BART trains in the Bay Area. The current BART voices, George and Gracie, were created by Lucent Technologies in the late 1990s. There is room for improvement to enhance the rider experience with more modern voices.
Rime Labs speaks at Bay Area NLP 0 implied HN points • 17 Mar 23 🕹 Technology Language Models Large Language Models trained on text cannot capture rich social information inherent in speech What are commonly referred to as Large Language Models should be called Large Text Models Rime Labs focuses on creating natural, conversational voice products for diverse contexts
Why does Siri suck? 0 implied HN points • 11 Aug 23 🕹 Technology AI Speech Synthesis Voice Cloning Deep Learning Conversational AI Siri and other TTS systems sound robotic due to voice cloning and the nature of reading aloud. Voice fatigue can occur when the same voice is used indefinitely in synthetic speech products. Rime Labs offers a solution to voice fatigue by providing a wide variety of voices and a generative approach to creating new voices.
Fitter. Happier. And the Nature of Iconic Voices. 0 implied HN points • 22 Mar 23 🕹 Technology Voice technology Social media Famous voices were limited due to technology and media constraints in the past Democratization of recording technology led to a variety of voices gaining exposure Advancements in synthetic voice technology are breaking the era of 'famous voices'
Coming soon 0 implied HN points • 02 Mar 23 🎨 Art & Illustration Visual Arts Rime Labs is launching soon. You can subscribe on rimelabs.substack.com. The post provides links to share on Facebook or email.
Rime goes live with over 200 unique voices, the greatest number of English TTS voices ever 0 implied HN points • 06 Apr 23 🕹 Technology AI Speech Synthesis Tech Innovation Rime Labs introduces over 200 unique English TTS voices, the most diverse ever These voices are AI-generated and sound realistic, expanding speech possibilities Rime offers sub-300ms latency for enterprise clients, with plans starting at $10 a month