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Boo! This is awful advice.

I'm constantly commended on my side projects, and I excel at them because I enjoy them:

- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x034jVB1avs

- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5XTi-jf-ans

- https://vo.codes

- https://trumped.com

The laser stuff made me wealthy, and that wasn't even my intention. People at the time told me it was a huge distraction from my academic career and a waste of time.

My current side project is a real time voice converter (like Mission Impossible).

Follow your passion. You'll deliver better results and open lots of doors.

Your side projects will also usually be pretty novel. It's fertile ground for startup material.

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Vocodes is super cool and fun to play with, well done. I wonder if it's possible to turn it into a text-to-speech donations service for Twitch streamers? The current TTS voices are rather monotone. Some donators test how their text donations would sound like on this website: https://textreader.pro

P/S: Small typo on the first sentence on the about page.

Thanks! That's an awesome idea I hadn't thought of. Is there anybody in particular I should reach out to?

And thanks for the bug report too :)

Hmm, I'm not sure. On second thought, it could be a legal copyright issue to use famous voices in a monetary setting. Also, it could perhaps be abused somehow despite its huge entertainment potential.

The laser stuff is cool. If you don't mind me asking, how did it make you wealthy? Do you sell it as a service for events? Or maybe sold/licensed the tech to someone? Or maybe it just got you a really great job?

I tried to monetize it, but the luck was in connecting with the right people. Visibility and connections.

I immediately put in the FUN song from spongebob and was slightly disappointed lol

awesome project though! How did you build the voice encoder for each character?

Lots of sample data!

This stuff has gotten a lot more accessible. You can download Tacotron and give it a try.

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