this is such a great tool, I totally agree. I know some people think it's creepy but i think it's mind blowing. I already spent hours making those and some that are totally from scratch. made a long video about my grandma and her history and sent it to the kids of my 1C, who are in their teens. their response was priceless. love your way of presentation!
Omg.. just thought about recipes, quilting, crochet n knit patterns. Children's books. I have audio of my great grandmother, to see her actually saying it .mind blown.
that would be cool, recipes and such! a good photo and a recipe being said, would be pretty darn cool! you can add spaces, commas, etc for pauses and emphasis by capitalizations. (toss in a joke and when you hear it or someone hears it, it will catch you off guard and make you laugh) i did a few tossed in jokes and felt like i was at a comedy club lol (oh if my great grandmother saw me doing this should would no doubt thump me lol
So sad that I have so few photos of my relatives. We seldom take photos. So this fun tool will have limited applications for me. But it's a wonderful tool. Thanks MH.
I previously tried the MyHeritage animation program. I thought it was cool until my uncle's teeth started rolling around in his mouth. I tried Livestory a couple of days ago. I couldn't use the tree I previously uploaded because it was too large and would require paying a monthly fee. Instead, I wrote a story. I didn't know about the 2,500-character limit and had to trim it down a bit. They cropped the photo I attached and sharpened it up quite a bit. Then I had a visit from my grandmother. It was amazing! Besides the facial movements for speech, there is body movement too. Most of my cousins could care less about family history. After sharing this, most were amazed and said they also learned a bit from grandma. I think this can be a great teaching tool.
Thats awesome! if it gets them a hook into genealogy then it was a good thing :) i have some photos like the one in video that are "O K" and some that are just hideous and a couple that are like OMG that is amazing quality for the pic and lip syncing! (dropped a couple jokes in my story and it was like a comedy club lol
That's so cool! My Heritage is doing so many cool things right now! It's improved by leaps and bounds in the past two years! It's a shame more people don't know about it. It's really almost as good as Ancestry for geneological purposes for less money. What great features!
i was kinda hard stuck on the fact ancestry had "more" in their data pool, and they do. and they ahve more closer matches, BUT to break walls and solve kinships MH has 6x-15x more in the "shared' list to give you that many more opportunities to find that one clue that makes a difference. Thats significant and the 3 way with clustering, never enough said about the value of those combined! the photo enhancement and video have their place and their not genealogical IMHO but still a part of genealogy is the "story" of ones family and i have to admit, this is a pretty cool way to have that story told :) (try tossing in some joke you like and watch an ancestor tell those, its a hoot LOL)
i dont know how to respond to that second part. Just know that for anyone you talked to in life the voices will not match up at all and will seem pretty artificial. for the first part depending on how much you interacted with her could be pretty good. Dollie mae, in this video, is my grandmother on my DNA surprise line. i never knew here at all so the voices did not seem "off". When the animation mentioned my name in relationship to her from her prespective it floored me. Now i did add in an ancestor and for the text put in jokes and i was laughing like at a comedy club lol And i put my daughter who is a teenager in too saying dad is always right which was a bit of a chuckle Good luck on them. Note that you can slow or speed up similar voices to "tweak" a bit to get a voice closer to expectation. Again not sure how to address second part so ill just leave it here and wish you best of all in it.
each voice has 5 speeds to help "tweak" as well if you find one "close" to expectation. for ancestors I just try to match a voice expectation with the picture. for living people i have talked to, its nearly impossible to get a similar voice or believe the lip movements but its pretty darn cool with ancestors i never met.
Thank you for telling us about this Larry. I just had a play with it, using a photo of my nanny, and it is really cool. I'm impressed with how flawlesslly it can pronounce the individual English place names and surnames in my tree, some of which would likely get mispronounced in various ways if any US person tried to say them. I did find though that it was a very fine art to work out where to place or remove commas to make it sound natural. I found if I wanted a full place name, that in my tree would be formatted as, say 'Swindon, Wiltshire, England', I needed to remove the commas to make it sound right, but that this sometimes went wrong. One of the events I used took place at Christ Church, which is a church in Old Town, which itself is an area in Swindon, but however I punctuate 'Christ Church Old Town Swindon Wiltshire Engand', the voice reading it makes it seem like the event was in the Old Town of a place called Christchurch, if you see what I mean. Adding a comma between Christ Church and Old Town seems to make it too much of an unnatural pause, like a robot reading a shopping list. It had an even bigger problem with 38 Locton Street, Bow, East London, England, even though it nailed the pronounciation of Bow, because the voice always sounds like she is either saying a place called 'Street Bow' or else a place called 'Bow East' no matter where I place or remove the commas. But those are all rather minor niggles considering how incredible the technology is, and how good the specifically English pronounciations are. My only other observation is that all the UK voices are fairly well spoken southern England accents, when the UK actually has an extremely diverse range of accents. I'm from the South of England myself, so I can just tell myself my ancestors are speaking in their 'telephone voice' instead of their normal one (which is a very convincing excuse in the case of my nanny, as she was a GPO telephonist, connecting long distance calls in the days before automatic switching), but for those people who have ancestors who were proudly Cornish, Welsh, Scottish, (Northern) Irish, Lancastrian, Yorkshirean etc it could be very upsetting to have to settle for the accent of a 'posh' southerner. I therefore hope they either expand over time the range of accents available, or else add the technology to upload any short audio file of the ancestor speaking to then synthesise something closer to their actual voice.
Thank you, Larry. This is another gem from you. Yes, it needs a bit of work on the transcript once it loads for the first time, but it is amazing for what it can do. Just saw my great-uncle & my grandad, who I never knew in real life, back in the world again. Fabulous.
for those we have never met its pretty cool imho. for those we met, its woahfully awkward, BUT i did talk to them about a potential solution for that, so im watching/waiting feedback on the recommendation :) we will see
ROFLMAO! Being from the south so many things could be said here! We could add cursing and no one would know! like "Honey, Bless your heart" LOL HAHA you made my day with that! PS: cant help but notice McCarter. I have a dead end of sorts on my McCarter line and that caught my eye. My McCarters trace back to Hill Country Arkansas (yeah scary right) and back to South Carolina, then across water from either ireland or scotland (guess there is debate among those that researched that) supposedly according to some it derives from McArthur and before that MacArthur. Since its not a common name, any chance your families history (or married families history) participates in arkansas, SC or back to ireland/scotland in documentation? Id like to get another McCarter line to iron this out against
yeah my head is spinning still on this one! having an ancestor animate the family history in a video format, is going to be amazing (creepifying a bit lol but amazing! i cant wait to edit and add custom blocks!)
I wondered how it handled other languages, french, spanish, italian for instance. It may be english centric atm but MyHeritage is VERY DIVERSE in offerings in other languages so i would expect if this catches fire like deep nostalgia did, other language "packs" would arrive for usage. My hope is that they allow us to PHEHOME upload which would then handle any language identified to read the text. Who knows where they will take this, they took their photo enhancements many steps so i expect they have at least a medium term plan for this to evolve as well.
yeah its subscription based for sure, BUT they do offer trial periods where you could do the rest for free (and use consistency checker and photo colorizer and enhancement. If you have DNA if u upload this week you also get the tools free forever for usage on the DNA data. Ill keep a subscription until im completed with mine using this for sure. While not enabling genealogy research this one has emotional value to me seeing family members from the DNA surprise line "animated" and telling "their story" which ironically because im in the tree, their animation included my name which stunned me to hear that as presented. probably not 440 value worth but certainly trial period and monthly option for a few worth to me
It says you can use other languages as well. You have to choose your language in your profile, and write the story in that language. I would prefer just English with an accent.
yes and no. Family stories are a legit part of genealogy. While this tool does not enhance finding any particular ancestor, i think it has real value in the presentation of family history. Especially with the ability to freestyle edit/add/remove to tell the story desired. They did just come out with "labels" which is incredibly helpful. I have not issue with them rotating tools and historical preservation (like the photo enhancement). One day it will be out photos the descendants try to enhance, repair cracks and also "recover" those in digital age. or even "enhance" those in the early digital age which were low resolution. Id pay money to have those early photos that were standard photos of son and the early digital (which i think were like 300x300px from the original analog to digital converters into a modern high quality photo. Their repair and colorization tools do a decent job on some of them, later tech will im sure do better. Sure id prefer a "group/ungroup all" for the labels to enhance our experience and id 100% have prefered exporting shared matches (not just the full list) and or 50 per page to make that process much less painful. BUT i do have that tool as challenging as it is now and also have this. and as i mentioned, having a DNA surprise and this being my grandmother on that line, i have always felt a disconnect to that family line. Watching this, having her read the information, especially the AI around presentation when it stated i was the son of Larkin and it named the sister Rebekah (who like my father died before i found out) was a REAL EMOTIONAL bubble burster! not in a cry watching it type way but in a "this is my grandmother, acknowledging my existence" sort of way. Yeah its faked,but still, it was an indescribable "smoothing" effect and for the first time EVER i felt "this IS my family"! I know thats hard to relate but thats how that first view hit me! I then began considering the POWER of what this could do! ancestors teling stories from Period! yeah this isnt really genealogy in a purest sense, BUT I am very pleased they did it and gave us access to this! Like you i think they sink alot of time/effort into photos and video. But genealogy is about capturing and documenting history of our family and this is undoubtedly an enhancement in that area that we wouldnt normally participate in. The EASE of its usage, i mean click, upload photo, done. Thats all it takes, wow and the way it presented the information is NOT how its written in my tree! If today i had to choose, between making a DNA match connection to a line or this for a single days outcome, id pick this. tomorrow (or when ive exhausted this id want a tool by then) but this ability to make a movie of sorts with an ancestor photo I think certainly has its place in the future of genealogy. This is hands down the best way to tell family stories! Simulating their voice with them telling THEIR story, wow. Agree i want tools, tools and more tools but man is this a GREAT distractor LOL
read both your comments will answer here, first THANK YOU for that feedback! that is really good to know about 2500 characters and/or 30 chapters! i was planning on putting it through paces in a bit of a "how to" and that is really a helpful head start! your feedback was amazing thank you! I hope that down the road they allow us to upload audio to extract Phenomes. That would make it IDENTICAL to our ancestors if living and if not, at least we could start that documentation of sorts now for future generations! Since i have software to edit, Chapter(izing) 2500/30 and stitching together into a master presentation is doable for me. I was thinking to have ancestors talk about "events" occuring through their life, a bit like Disneys' animation in the hall of presidents. Sad that photos only go into the 1800s but like all tech had to start somewhere right? Someone polished at this could make a business out of this lol
No it’s in the subscription area but the do offer a free trial period so you could get a lot done and see if a month of subscription would be worth it for rest of the people
its cool my head buzzing still with possibilities! and i touched on it, but with a DNA surprise "hearing my grandmother" tell the story, was in a strange way, therapeutic. this is amazing in many many ways.
the deep nostalgia kinda creeped me out but this one, im utilizing this one! But i intend to edit that text and choose the most appropriate voice. This is a GREAT way to let our ancestors tell a story. but yeah its also a bit scary but this is why i pulled my photos from ancestry when they changed their terms, this is todays technology, imagine years down the road! that tupac holgram concert will be "old tech" in 50 years so that is scary/creepy lol
@@JamieNowicki OH, yeah i never published that (or any on that specific terms change topic! I had lawyers on both sides of this fence and I didnt want in the middle without firm ground) in short when they changed their terms (well announced the date of effect of new terms) I immediately used FTM to sync the trees, get all the pictures, etc and then deleted those trees. I then uploaded a GEDCOM only version of those trees to keep the data but remove all documents and photos. The main reason was because of exactly this technology and more down the road as ancestries ToS was "in perpetuity". in my video i referenced the hologram Tupac concert that cost $25,000 for them to make and while thats alot when it was done, as with all tech that cost will eventually go near $0 with open source versions and at some point ancestry will own similar and better. while i dont listen to this music, i keep up on technology - th-cam.com/video/uJE8pfPfVRo/w-d-xo.html Watch this and realize it was artificially created. His is a hologram giving a LIVE concert even DUETing with other artists! So having family photos there (while folks are like hey its just a photo) this live story technology TODAY that is available will be archaic in 20yrs! I canceled that video (like so many others i dont post) because it was to condemning of Ancestry. The old rule of if you cant say something good dont say it right? AND i have no evidence of any intent now or future to do this (although MH allows YOU to do this now! so i was right about where it is going!) Some saw preview of the video in members group i think, but in the end it died in committee and was removed from members group as well. BUT i have alluded to my "choice" on topic a few times, glad you noticed, hope others do as well and make them think about what to upload with greater caution. removing my kids photos was imperative. Last thing they need is to see their animated representations advertising something they dont approve of and having no recourse because the terms were in perpetuity without recourse by descendant generations.
yes, but you can get a trial, use it, download and not continue if u choose. Definitely worth the effort and honestly a trial followed by a month sub then cancel is probably good, their consistency checker for trees is a GREAT way to find typos on dates and such, and this, plus their photo enhancement product line. so trial and a month or so to do what you want would be good (unless u can squeeze all that in a trial period!)
cant deny the creepy factor lol but for those we never met its also has a cool factor. HEaring my grandmother (whom i never met - DNA surprise line) say my name was a shocker. And saying it along with the sister i had but died before i met her was also kinda therapuetic in a way. That side recognizes me as part of family but Im not in or invited to any reindeer games lol So to hear that from "creepy photo" of her, was actually kinda cool. Closest thing to acknowledgement i have had in 3 yrs lol
I cannot disagree! lol I have an ancestor picture that works PERFECT for this technology, lips/smile/face all are perfect and its .... yeah... Creepy LOL
this is such a great tool, I totally agree. I know some people think it's creepy but i think it's mind blowing. I already spent hours making those and some that are totally from scratch. made a long video about my grandma and her history and sent it to the kids of my 1C, who are in their teens. their response was priceless. love your way of presentation!
Thank you :)
Omg.. just thought about recipes, quilting, crochet n knit patterns. Children's books. I have audio of my great grandmother, to see her actually saying it .mind blown.
that would be cool, recipes and such! a good photo and a recipe being said, would be pretty darn cool! you can add spaces, commas, etc for pauses and emphasis by capitalizations. (toss in a joke and when you hear it or someone hears it, it will catch you off guard and make you laugh) i did a few tossed in jokes and felt like i was at a comedy club lol (oh if my great grandmother saw me doing this should would no doubt thump me lol
So sad that I have so few photos of my relatives. We seldom take photos. So this fun tool will have limited applications for me. But it's a wonderful tool. Thanks MH.
I previously tried the MyHeritage animation program. I thought it was cool until my uncle's teeth started rolling around in his mouth.
I tried Livestory a couple of days ago. I couldn't use the tree I previously uploaded because it was too large and would require paying a monthly fee. Instead, I wrote a story. I didn't know about the 2,500-character limit and had to trim it down a bit.
They cropped the photo I attached and sharpened it up quite a bit. Then I had a visit from my grandmother. It was amazing! Besides the facial movements for speech, there is body movement too.
Most of my cousins could care less about family history. After sharing this, most were amazed and said they also learned a bit from grandma. I think this can be a great teaching tool.
Thats awesome! if it gets them a hook into genealogy then it was a good thing :)
i have some photos like the one in video that are "O K" and some that are just hideous and a couple that are like OMG that is amazing quality for the pic and lip syncing! (dropped a couple jokes in my story and it was like a comedy club lol
That's so cool! My Heritage is doing so many cool things right now! It's improved by leaps and bounds in the past two years! It's a shame more people don't know about it. It's really almost as good as Ancestry for geneological purposes for less money. What great features!
i was kinda hard stuck on the fact ancestry had "more" in their data pool, and they do. and they ahve more closer matches, BUT to break walls and solve kinships MH has 6x-15x more in the "shared' list to give you that many more opportunities to find that one clue that makes a difference. Thats significant and the 3 way with clustering, never enough said about the value of those combined!
the photo enhancement and video have their place and their not genealogical IMHO but still a part of genealogy is the "story" of ones family and i have to admit, this is a pretty cool way to have that story told :)
(try tossing in some joke you like and watch an ancestor tell those, its a hoot LOL)
Awesome! I can’t wait to see my grandmother! Also my son who was killed at 17 by a drunk driver. Thank you Larry.
i dont know how to respond to that second part. Just know that for anyone you talked to in life the voices will not match up at all and will seem pretty artificial. for the first part depending on how much you interacted with her could be pretty good.
Dollie mae, in this video, is my grandmother on my DNA surprise line. i never knew here at all so the voices did not seem "off". When the animation mentioned my name in relationship to her from her prespective it floored me.
Now i did add in an ancestor and for the text put in jokes and i was laughing like at a comedy club lol And i put my daughter who is a teenager in too saying dad is always right which was a bit of a chuckle Good luck on them.
Note that you can slow or speed up similar voices to "tweak" a bit to get a voice closer to expectation. Again not sure how to address second part so ill just leave it here and wish you best of all in it.
So very very cool!
Regional accents..older voices.. I cannot wait to try this!
each voice has 5 speeds to help "tweak" as well if you find one "close" to expectation. for ancestors I just try to match a voice expectation with the picture. for living people i have talked to, its nearly impossible to get a similar voice or believe the lip movements but its pretty darn cool with ancestors i never met.
Thank you for telling us about this Larry. I just had a play with it, using a photo of my nanny, and it is really cool. I'm impressed with how flawlesslly it can pronounce the individual English place names and surnames in my tree, some of which would likely get mispronounced in various ways if any US person tried to say them. I did find though that it was a very fine art to work out where to place or remove commas to make it sound natural. I found if I wanted a full place name, that in my tree would be formatted as, say 'Swindon, Wiltshire, England', I needed to remove the commas to make it sound right, but that this sometimes went wrong. One of the events I used took place at Christ Church, which is a church in Old Town, which itself is an area in Swindon, but however I punctuate 'Christ Church Old Town Swindon Wiltshire Engand', the voice reading it makes it seem like the event was in the Old Town of a place called Christchurch, if you see what I mean. Adding a comma between Christ Church and Old Town seems to make it too much of an unnatural pause, like a robot reading a shopping list. It had an even bigger problem with 38 Locton Street, Bow, East London, England, even though it nailed the pronounciation of Bow, because the voice always sounds like she is either saying a place called 'Street Bow' or else a place called 'Bow East' no matter where I place or remove the commas. But those are all rather minor niggles considering how incredible the technology is, and how good the specifically English pronounciations are.
My only other observation is that all the UK voices are fairly well spoken southern England accents, when the UK actually has an extremely diverse range of accents. I'm from the South of England myself, so I can just tell myself my ancestors are speaking in their 'telephone voice' instead of their normal one (which is a very convincing excuse in the case of my nanny, as she was a GPO telephonist, connecting long distance calls in the days before automatic switching), but for those people who have ancestors who were proudly Cornish, Welsh, Scottish, (Northern) Irish, Lancastrian, Yorkshirean etc it could be very upsetting to have to settle for the accent of a 'posh' southerner. I therefore hope they either expand over time the range of accents available, or else add the technology to upload any short audio file of the ancestor speaking to then synthesise something closer to their actual voice.
Thank you, Larry. This is another gem from you. Yes, it needs a bit of work on the transcript once it loads for the first time, but it is amazing for what it can do. Just saw my great-uncle & my grandad, who I never knew in real life, back in the world again. Fabulous.
for those we have never met its pretty cool imho. for those we met, its woahfully awkward, BUT i did talk to them about a potential solution for that, so im watching/waiting feedback on the recommendation :) we will see
This is fun! If the pronunciation of a name or place is incorrect try typing it phonetically. The text doesn't appear on the video. Worked for me.
Somehow I had miss this youtube. I would like to get one done by Christmas.
I have never heard my birth mother's voice. I am wondering, if I can get an audio recording of her, if her voice could be used to do this.
Well you could use phenome voiceover lots of work but real possibilities
Wow! Hope they offer a Southern accent!
ROFLMAO! Being from the south so many things could be said here!
We could add cursing and no one would know! like "Honey, Bless your heart" LOL
HAHA you made my day with that!
PS: cant help but notice McCarter. I have a dead end of sorts on my McCarter line and that caught my eye. My McCarters trace back to Hill Country Arkansas (yeah scary right) and back to South Carolina, then across water from either ireland or scotland (guess there is debate among those that researched that) supposedly according to some it derives from McArthur and before that MacArthur.
Since its not a common name, any chance your families history (or married families history) participates in arkansas, SC or back to ireland/scotland in documentation? Id like to get another McCarter line to iron this out against
Wow wow wow
yeah my head is spinning still on this one! having an ancestor animate the family history in a video format, is going to be amazing (creepifying a bit lol but amazing! i cant wait to edit and add custom blocks!)
Thanks for sharing I just try it for my father’s father and add more information to it. Can I make my grandfather talk in Spanish,
I wondered how it handled other languages, french, spanish, italian for instance. It may be english centric atm but MyHeritage is VERY DIVERSE in offerings in other languages so i would expect if this catches fire like deep nostalgia did, other language "packs" would arrive for usage.
My hope is that they allow us to PHEHOME upload which would then handle any language identified to read the text.
Who knows where they will take this, they took their photo enhancements many steps so i expect they have at least a medium term plan for this to evolve as well.
@@DNAFamilyTrees thanks I try to see if there is a way but no for now and hope in the future
was able to create a few videos until it suddenly told me i had to pay a 440 dollar yearly subscription in order to use the service lmao
yeah its subscription based for sure, BUT they do offer trial periods where you could do the rest for free (and use consistency checker and photo colorizer and enhancement. If you have DNA if u upload this week you also get the tools free forever for usage on the DNA data.
Ill keep a subscription until im completed with mine using this for sure. While not enabling genealogy research this one has emotional value to me seeing family members from the DNA surprise line "animated" and telling "their story" which ironically because im in the tree, their animation included my name which stunned me to hear that as presented.
probably not 440 value worth but certainly trial period and monthly option for a few worth to me
Can you select German, French, Spanish, etc... or is it strictly Englis Variations? I really like this!!!
It appears English at the moment not sure tgiughy
It says you can use other languages as well. You have to choose your language in your profile, and write the story in that language. I would prefer just English with an accent.
MyHeritage should concentrate on genuine worthwhile projects to help their members with their research, and not these gimmicks.
yes and no. Family stories are a legit part of genealogy. While this tool does not enhance finding any particular ancestor, i think it has real value in the presentation of family history. Especially with the ability to freestyle edit/add/remove to tell the story desired.
They did just come out with "labels" which is incredibly helpful.
I have not issue with them rotating tools and historical preservation (like the photo enhancement).
One day it will be out photos the descendants try to enhance, repair cracks and also "recover" those in digital age. or even "enhance" those in the early digital age which were low resolution. Id pay money to have those early photos that were standard photos of son and the early digital (which i think were like 300x300px from the original analog to digital converters into a modern high quality photo.
Their repair and colorization tools do a decent job on some of them, later tech will im sure do better.
Sure id prefer a "group/ungroup all" for the labels to enhance our experience and id 100% have prefered exporting shared matches (not just the full list) and or 50 per page to make that process much less painful. BUT i do have that tool as challenging as it is now and also have this.
and as i mentioned, having a DNA surprise and this being my grandmother on that line, i have always felt a disconnect to that family line.
Watching this, having her read the information, especially the AI around presentation when it stated i was the son of Larkin and it named the sister Rebekah (who like my father died before i found out) was a REAL EMOTIONAL bubble burster!
not in a cry watching it type way but in a "this is my grandmother, acknowledging my existence" sort of way. Yeah its faked,but still, it was an indescribable "smoothing" effect and for the first time EVER i felt "this IS my family"!
I know thats hard to relate but thats how that first view hit me!
I then began considering the POWER of what this could do! ancestors teling stories from Period!
yeah this isnt really genealogy in a purest sense, BUT I am very pleased they did it and gave us access to this!
Like you i think they sink alot of time/effort into photos and video.
But genealogy is about capturing and documenting history of our family and this is undoubtedly an enhancement in that area that we wouldnt normally participate in.
The EASE of its usage, i mean click, upload photo, done. Thats all it takes, wow and the way it presented the information is NOT how its written in my tree!
If today i had to choose, between making a DNA match connection to a line or this for a single days outcome, id pick this.
tomorrow (or when ive exhausted this id want a tool by then) but this ability to make a movie of sorts with an ancestor photo I think certainly has its place in the future of genealogy. This is hands down the best way to tell family stories! Simulating their voice with them telling THEIR story, wow.
Agree i want tools, tools and more tools but man is this a GREAT distractor LOL
Fascinating, but a little creepy
yeah spot on! personalized stories are going to be incredible. Making hundred year old relatives tell stories, yeah a little of that lool
I meant to say I also found out the hard way that you are limited to 2500 characters and/or 30 chapters for any LiveStory.
read both your comments will answer here, first THANK YOU for that feedback! that is really good to know about 2500 characters and/or 30 chapters! i was planning on putting it through paces in a bit of a "how to" and that is really a helpful head start!
your feedback was amazing thank you!
I hope that down the road they allow us to upload audio to extract Phenomes. That would make it IDENTICAL to our ancestors if living and if not, at least we could start that documentation of sorts now for future generations!
Since i have software to edit, Chapter(izing) 2500/30 and stitching together into a master presentation is doable for me. I was thinking to have ancestors talk about "events" occuring through their life, a bit like Disneys' animation in the hall of presidents. Sad that photos only go into the 1800s but like all tech had to start somewhere right?
Someone polished at this could make a business out of this lol
Is this one of the free tools ?
No it’s in the subscription area but the do offer a free trial period so you could get a lot done and see if a month of subscription would be worth it for rest of the people
Creepy and cool 😄
I thought MyHeritage was going to post Haplogroups.
Thank you, Larry! This is absolutely amazing!
hours later mind still blown with possibilities on using this!
Wow, how amazing? Woohoo!
its cool my head buzzing still with possibilities! and i touched on it, but with a DNA surprise "hearing my grandmother" tell the story, was in a strange way, therapeutic. this is amazing in many many ways.
Yes, Larry! Really nice new feature! Can’t wait to use! 💐💕😍
its scary cool!
Do you have to have a tree?
Sorta of. It’s best if you do so it’s automatic but you can manually enter 2500 words for them
Yea, something I'm definitely staying away from. Very creepy
But nonetheless thank you for the news!
the deep nostalgia kinda creeped me out but this one, im utilizing this one! But i intend to edit that text and choose the most appropriate voice. This is a GREAT way to let our ancestors tell a story. but yeah its also a bit scary but this is why i pulled my photos from ancestry when they changed their terms, this is todays technology, imagine years down the road! that tupac holgram concert will be "old tech" in 50 years so that is scary/creepy lol
@@JamieNowicki OH, yeah i never published that (or any on that specific terms change topic! I had lawyers on both sides of this fence and I didnt want in the middle without firm ground)
in short when they changed their terms (well announced the date of effect of new terms) I immediately used FTM to sync the trees, get all the pictures, etc and then deleted those trees. I then uploaded a GEDCOM only version of those trees to keep the data but remove all documents and photos.
The main reason was because of exactly this technology and more down the road as ancestries ToS was "in perpetuity".
in my video i referenced the hologram Tupac concert that cost $25,000 for them to make and while thats alot when it was done, as with all tech that cost will eventually go near $0 with open source versions and at some point ancestry will own similar and better.
while i dont listen to this music, i keep up on technology - th-cam.com/video/uJE8pfPfVRo/w-d-xo.html
Watch this and realize it was artificially created. His is a hologram giving a LIVE concert even DUETing with other artists!
So having family photos there (while folks are like hey its just a photo) this live story technology TODAY that is available will be archaic in 20yrs!
I canceled that video (like so many others i dont post) because it was to condemning of Ancestry.
The old rule of if you cant say something good dont say it right? AND i have no evidence of any intent now or future to do this (although MH allows YOU to do this now! so i was right about where it is going!)
Some saw preview of the video in members group i think, but in the end it died in committee and was removed from members group as well.
BUT i have alluded to my "choice" on topic a few times, glad you noticed, hope others do as well and make them think about what to upload with greater caution. removing my kids photos was imperative. Last thing they need is to see their animated representations advertising something they dont approve of and having no recourse because the terms were in perpetuity without recourse by descendant generations.
Its a little creepy but its kinda cool too
oh man custom stories, this is going to be a HUGE time waster for me, i cant wait to get into this in depth!
Do you have to have a membership for this?
yes, but you can get a trial, use it, download and not continue if u choose. Definitely worth the effort and honestly a trial followed by a month sub then cancel is probably good, their consistency checker for trees is a GREAT way to find typos on dates and such, and this, plus their photo enhancement product line. so trial and a month or so to do what you want would be good (unless u can squeeze all that in a trial period!)
Honestly, I find this very creepy.
Holy Crap… lol
yeah lol you summed it up pretty well!
This looks like fun for those who can use it. DNA, genealogical research has come a long ways.
sure has! this is a 10/10 on cool meter! i cant wait to personalize the text!
Amazing! Going to try it out now!!
Hope you like it!
Too creepy
cant deny the creepy factor lol but for those we never met its also has a cool factor. HEaring my grandmother (whom i never met - DNA surprise line) say my name was a shocker. And saying it along with the sister i had but died before i met her was also kinda therapuetic in a way. That side recognizes me as part of family but Im not in or invited to any reindeer games lol So to hear that from "creepy photo" of her, was actually kinda cool. Closest thing to acknowledgement i have had in 3 yrs lol
Sorry, just too creepy for me.
I cannot disagree! lol
I have an ancestor picture that works PERFECT for this technology, lips/smile/face all are perfect and its .... yeah... Creepy LOL