On: Launch HN: Play.ht (YC W23) – Generate and clone v...

[jeroenhd]

Listening to the demos I'm not entirely convinced by this (https://playground.play.ht/listen/189 was pretty funny). I wonder if this company will end up taking down (and subsequently pricing out most people using this tech for fun) arbitrary voice generation just like its competitors have so far.

Going to the demo page and hearing a random snippet of Musk-worship was pretty weird. Out of all audio tracks to place at the top of your demos, you chose this?

[nico → jeroenhd]

> (https://playground.play.ht/listen/189 was pretty funny)

Warning to others wanting to click on the link: damn that was creepy.

[noduerme → nico]

that's pretty fuckin funny. Did you train it to do that?

[andrewstuart → nico]

It was damn funny.

I’m still laughing five minutes later.

[nullsense → nico]

Ghost in the machine.

[juggli → nico]

damn. scared me

[bunnyswipe_com → nico]

sounds from hell

[mugr → jeroenhd]

Wow, I call to the team behind this. I really STRONGLY think you should at least implement some sort of URL stealthing. I'm not a Web Security expert, but it reminds me of a talk where some company just made medical records 'public' like this.

[h1fra → mugr]

Oopsie, the infamous id int Auto Increment

[airstrike → h1fra]

https://playground.play.ht/listen/1339 and https://playground.play.ht/listen/210 are hilarious

[mikrotikker → mugr]

On the contrary, this should be accessible so we can see what people are generating.

[yreg → jeroenhd]

The demo page says 'Recently generated', you have listened to the last snippet someone made.

[jeroenhd → yreg]

I know the demo page was user generated. My Musk comment referred to this page: https://play.ht/ultra-realistic-voices/

[SamBam → jeroenhd]

Two(!) of them were about Musk.

[bongobingo1 → jeroenhd]

I see a bright future for play.ht in the "pre-event" audiolog generation market. Somebody get ubisoft on the phone.

[WakoMan12 → jeroenhd]

AI can now generate youtube poops