Show HN: Airy – Free, fast, and simple voice content creation

28 pointsposted 9 hours ago
by login588

14 Comments

jnwatson

2 hours ago

All but one of the voices sounds tinny. The timing and cadence was good though.

Is this intended for anime autodubbing? There's only one voice (Rowan) that is remotely traditional broadcaster-style.

Kim_Bruning

5 hours ago

You know, I never did find out why people dub anime with such unnatural voices.

Figs

3 hours ago

The voice actors usually try to match the timing of the mouth flaps in the animation. It's hard to do that while also conveying the meaning of what is said correctly (enough) -- and practically impossible to do that while sounding natural in English too.

Kim_Bruning

3 hours ago

That doesn't help for sure, but the intonation is ... odd.

saaaaaam

6 hours ago

Why did you pick such creepy voices? They are very childlike and weird.

wccrawford

6 hours ago

They're definitely anime-style voices, though most of the female ones are very annoying. I couldn't stand to watch an anime with them.

panja

6 hours ago

They just sound like anime voices

saaaaaam

3 hours ago

Right, I’ve never seen an anime, probably for exactly this reason.

satvikpendem

39 minutes ago

There are good ones without the stereotypical voices, I recommend Fullmetal Alchemist Brotherhood.

recensorium

8 hours ago

This is cool! What model are you using?

login588

7 hours ago

Thanks! Airy runs on a proprietary TTS model that we built in-house, rather than a third-party model.

recensorium

5 hours ago

Wow! Well done that's really impressive.

AnuragPathapall

4 hours ago

Great, Working fast and cool. You can also try to adding some more voices from different parts of the world.

ramoz

19 minutes ago

obligatory HN a*hole comment: I hate every single one of these voices and the fact that the women look like children vs the men. A weird aesthetic all-in-all.