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Hey sorry for the delay on this. Our pricing model hasn't been published as of yet, but yes, we do aim to make the technology accessible to all levels of creators in the future.

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haha thanks, we'll take that as a compliment!

Hi there - thanks for both your comment and question!

As others have said, this is first and foremost a marketing video aimed at attracting target customers. We've got additional clean samples (without background music) further down on our homepage and we plan on adding even more on their own subpage of the site in the future. We've also done a few technical demos at conferences over the past year and will continue to do so.

We did meet at EF and it was totally worth it! There is no cost of admission for EF, they actually pay you to complete the program! Granted the monetary funds they provide could be a heck of a lot less than what you are earning at a full time job, so everyone's opportunity cost is different. EF's biggest selling point is their world-class network of highly ambitious individuals, so if you're interested in founding a company (pre-team / pre-idea) I would absolutely recommend looking into it.

thanks for catching this! as mentioned, the site is newly rebuilt. We're still doing some link fixing but if you'd like to read the Privacy Policy right now it can be found at: https://www.sonantic.io/pages/privacy-policy

Thank you! We think our name is pretty great too :) Sonantic only creates AI voice models with the consent of the artist/voice owner. We take misuse and copyright infringement very seriously and therefore never train on data (voice recordings) where the original source is unaware of its repurpose. That said, we aim to include more recognisable voices on our platform in the future.

Fair point. We will definitely consider adding something like this to the site. Thanks for the suggestion!

Thanks so much!! We really appreciate it.

Hey! Thanks so much. Yea, can't go into too much detail here, but I will say that more def isn't always better when it comes to the size of datasets. :) We aim for quality over quantity in order to achieve natural expressiveness from our actor recording sessions.

That's the holy grail right there, isn't it? :) We're definitely working towards runtime but still some work to be done there to account for additional complexities and balance trade-offs re: speed, quality, accuracy etc. of the rendered output.

Yep. Each of our TTS models is based on a real actor's voice that has its own nuanced characteristics. Some voices are naturally rougher / croaky while others smooth. As in real life, our differences are what make us unique. Some voices will work better for certain character profiles / scenes - it's up to the user to decide.

Yes! Supporting additional languages (and dialects) is definitely in our roadmap.

Thanks for your feedback! We felt that this storyline / length was best in order to showcase the two different actor's artificial voices and build up to the actual cry.

As you've mentioned, we do work with real actors to create our TTS and take misuse of their (artificial) voices very seriously. Because they sound so lifelike, we've made the decision not to allow public access/personal use at this time.

Lastly, your assessment is spot on regarding standard vs custom voices. Lots of interest for both!

Thanks for your comments and nice to hear you're also working on TTS! We have a few more samples (without background music) further down on our homepage and plan to add a full dedicated subpage in time!

Touché! It is pretty bad, huh? Our new site is only a few days old (rolled out on Wednesday / around the same time as our demo) so we haven't got eveything optimised just yet. Stay tuned for better cookies in the future!!!

Thank you for your comment. One of the reasons we founded Sonantic was to improve accessibility so we are right there with you! We plan to do this by reducing the barriers (both financial and logistical) of voiced content for everyone from indie developers to big AAA studios. We've already begun to see progress on this through partnership with initial customers during our beta.

Hey HN - Zeena Qureshi (Co-Founder and CEO at Sonantic) here.

Thanks for your thoughts and feedback thus far! I'd be happy to answer questions (within reason) about our latest cry demo / emotional TTS! Feel free to fire away on this thread.