HNHacker News
TopNewBestAskShowJobs

grayne

4 karma · joined April 20, 2021

submissionscomments
grayne··on Anam Cara-3: Why we think AI needs a face
Thanks for the question.

audio-to-motion is fairly robust to noisy TTS and differing languages / accents. It doesn't use the raw audio as input, we first embed the audio using a pretrained wav2vec-style embedder, trained on millions of audio samples.

Saying this, we haven't properly evaluated in multiple languages, and we have heard from customers that lip-sync isn't always as good in non-english. For Cara 4 we're training on more diverse data, which will hopefully close this gap.

grayne··on Anam Cara-3: Why we think AI needs a face
Full technical blog here: https://anam.ai/blog/cara-3-interactive-avatars
grayne··on Show HN: Shepherd.com – Discover books in a new way, like wandering a bookstore
Hi Ben, nice site. I'm no NLP expert but it might be worth taking a look at huggingface; they offer a simple API for all sorts of models. It looks like you'll be interested in their Zero-Shot Classification models in particular, e.g., https://huggingface.co/facebook/bart-large-mnli. Try dropping some text in the box and see how it goes. Good luck!