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Re: Brrr.money

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Acrobatic_Road, if this is your site, I'll be happy to set you up with API access to FakeYou.com so you can use the JPow voice. https://fakeyou.com/tts/TM:6r1d0n9rq20e

Are any of these models any good? Every one I tried was pretty horrible

https://fakeyou.com/tts/result/TR:ffk6sxmrj60492pf7jymqv3fqz...

The models are mostly user trained and submitted, and can widely in quality. Some of them are great, but many of them are not.

This one is trained on graphemes only (no Arpabet phonemes, which hinders pronunciation), and doesn't have a fine tuned vocoder (which causes spectral distortion "noise"). No notes on the data set source or quality.

It's about what I'd expect for a Jpow model.

Re: Brrr.money

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Right when I feel like the internet's becoming too corporate and optimized towards SEO for the sake of profit and profit alone, I land on a gem like this. Thank you brrr lords for bearing the webhosting cost for something fun.

It's lead generation for the project behind it.

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Acrobatic_Road, if this is your site, I'll be happy to set you up with API access to FakeYou.com so you can use the JPow voice. https://fakeyou.com/tts/TM:6r1d0n9rq20e

Are any of these models any good? Every one I tried was pretty horrible

Many commercial products (Descript, etc) are hella good; so is 15.ai ( https://15.ai/ )

The tinker in me wishes there existed a high quality open source voice synthesis solution, but I get it, ethical concerns (plus making $$$ if it's locked behind an API).

Re: Brrr.money

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Right when I feel like the internet's becoming too corporate and optimized towards SEO for the sake of profit and profit alone, I land on a gem like this. Thank you brrr lords for bearing the webhosting cost for something fun.

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Re: Brrr.money

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Man, people really don’t understand economics. What point is this even trying to make?

inflation due to overprinting of money, as evidenced by BTC and DJI crazy high stock values. things with known intrinsic worth continue to climb higher in USD, which, for it's part, is cheapened as part of the madness of the west careening toward annihilation. the system is a self driving Tesla car and it's about to hit a pylon / dog / human thing.

Re: Brrr.money

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A Bitcoin-based economy would not suffer from this problem. Additionally, behold the list of extant desirable use cases for a decentralized cryptocurrency: 1. Donating to scihub 2. Reminding HN that a list with a single element in it is still a valid list.

A Bitcoin based economy would be unable to handle more than an infinitesimal number of transactions that take place and would be remarkably slow handling that infinitesimal amount of transactions. Price volatility would prevent businesses from selling in Bitcoin, workers from being paid in Bitcoin, taxes being collected in Bitcoin, and international trade agreements being contracted in Bitcoin.

Re: Brrr.money

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post #14
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Right when I feel like the internet's becoming too corporate and optimized towards SEO for the sake of profit and profit alone, I land on a gem like this. Thank you brrr lords for bearing the webhosting cost for something fun.

It's lead generation for the project behind it.

It's still fun!
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