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Re: Bark: A transformer based text to audio system

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The inability to train custom voices makes this useless for anything except generic TTS. Why do AI devs keep shooting their own projects in the foot? This trend is upsetting me so much.

Probably because if they are seen as enablers of scams, they'll be shot by someone else.

nobody is suing elevenlabs

Re: Bark: A transformer based text to audio system

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post #23
post #13

The inability to train custom voices makes this useless for anything except generic TTS. Why do AI devs keep shooting their own projects in the foot? This trend is upsetting me so much.

What are you talking about? It's MIT licensed.

there is no training code and devs don't plan on ever releasing it

Re: Bark: A transformer based text to audio system

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm curious, how did you generate the David Attenborough voice? The repo says: > Bark tries to match the tone, pitch, emotion and prosody of a given preset, but does not currently support custom voice cloning.

https://github.com/serp-ai/bark-with-voice-clone

Not used at all, at least in my case.

Re: Bark: A transformer based text to audio system

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post #31

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Probably because if they are seen as enablers of scams, they'll be shot by someone else.

nobody is suing elevenlabs

You don't need court order to be banned from GitHub.

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Re: Bark: A transformer based text to audio system

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I'll link my Bark fork with long audio generation and other features on the root thread, I suppose: https://github.com/JonathanFly/bark There's going to be a big update this week with some new stuff I haven't talked about. And a bunch of amazing, clear voices, with a huge variety of styles, that blow the default Suno voices out of the water. Arguably even better than Eleven in some ways. I'm excited even though I hav…

Thanks for your fork, I know a lot of folks love it. This might not be the HN style, But I'd suggest you a freemium microSaas approach. A lot of people I know want 1-click solution for audios and you might have great potential for that. That can add some $$$$ to your bank.

Re: Bark: A transformer based text to audio system

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post #13

The inability to train custom voices makes this useless for anything except generic TTS. Why do AI devs keep shooting their own projects in the foot? This trend is upsetting me so much.

This is a fair point that should not have been downvoted. I was looking for yhe training code to train a voice for Arabic text after they removed the language from their list.

Hopefully someone standard defuse this model so that we can train the models that others aren't willing to train.

Re: Bark: A transformer based text to audio system

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post #37

I'll link my Bark fork with long audio generation and other features on the root thread, I suppose: https://github.com/JonathanFly/bark There's going to be a big update this week with some new stuff I haven't talked about. And a bunch of amazing, clear voices, with a huge variety of styles, that blow the default Suno voices out of the water. Arguably even better than Eleven in some ways. I'm excited even though I hav…

Thanks for your fork, I know a lot of folks love it. This might not be the HN style, But I'd suggest you a freemium microSaas approach. A lot of people I know want 1-click solution for audios and you might have great potential for that. That can add some $$$$ to your bank.

Thanks. I'll consider it but I haven't deployed a model or service like that, so it'd be more of a second project in itself than a funding mechanism, probably. I was just realizing this morning how far behind I am on paying work from getting overly distracted by Bark lately. And it's a lot behind so it was kind of wake-up call. Though some of that is adding new features and trying new ideas (some to be seen later on the public fork) not all is support and stuff. Bark is a wild model, a lot of silly ideas kind of work.
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