The limit
A clone cannot beat its source
Cloning reproduces whatever the reference contains, including room reflections and mix noise. From a room microphone, a good stock voice sounds better than the clone.
About
The demo is never the hard part. Real input is.
The tools behind Yazyk are the tools I already work in every day:
Every one of those systems looks flawless in a curated clip. Finding out where each one falls apart is most of the actual work, and it is the part nobody puts in a demo.
Why it stays on your machine
8 yearsThat was the job: get in, reach the data nobody thought was reachable, and write up how. You learn quickly that the weak point is almost never the lock everyone is looking at. It is the convenient thing somebody added later, and the copy of your data sitting somewhere you forgot to ask about.
So Yazyk runs the pipeline on the computer in your room, and the Privacy page names what leaves it: the speech services, and the relay behind Internet listeners. I keep no copy of it. Not because it is a feature, but because I have spent a career being the person who goes looking for the copy you forgot about.
Yazyk can speak the translation in the speaker's own voice, built from a short reference. Whether that sounds better than a stock voice depends entirely on the feed it is taken from.
The limit
Cloning reproduces whatever the reference contains, including room reflections and mix noise. From a room microphone, a good stock voice sounds better than the clone.
The gate
Voice cloning requires an isolated speaker feed: one close microphone, with no music, room microphones, congregation, reverb, or other speakers. If that feed is unavailable, leave cloning off and use the stock voice. Even when an eligible speaker is selected, Yazyk will not capture a reference until the operator confirms that feed for the service.
The likeness
A cloned voice is a copy of a real person. It is built for that event from a reference you supply, and the software deletes the vendor side copy when the run shuts down cleanly. A crash, a slow vendor response at shutdown, or a failed delete can still leave one behind, so the runbook carries a manual check.
The last one is why this page tells you that voice capture fails closed without a confirmed isolated feed, why the usage report sent when a run ends is not retried if the network is down at that moment, and why the vendor side voice can still outlive a run that crashed. Those are the current state, not the intended one.
Yazyk is built and operated by Tymeless Technologies LLC. The honest description of the product today is early software running real events and reporting what it measured of them.
Talk about your event