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Re: Show HN: Gdańsk AI – full stack AI voice chatbot

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I've always wondered if there's a better way of making voice assistants. With this stack, the AI will not be able to answer "what is this sound?", or give you UK-based information because it picked up on your British accent. It's bottlenecked by text. A model that can understand audio as input, and output audio directly, could be so much more powerful

Sure there's a better way. https://google-research.github.io/seanet/audiopalm/examples/ There's no reason autoregressive LMs can't be used to model audio data.

Unfortunately this hasn't been released yet and since that paper it is very quiet around that topic so chances are high it (or something similar) will just not be released.

Re: Show HN: Gdańsk AI – full stack AI voice chatbot

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post #24

Earlier quoted context omitted.

TorToiSe ( https://github.com/neonbjb/tortoise-tts ) produces the best quality speech of any freely available model. However, its long inference times makes it impractical for voice chatbots like Gdansk.

What's the reason for the high inference latency? Any ideas on how this could be improved?

TorToiSe is composed of many large models: GPT-2 for text encodings, as well as a large VQVAE encoder + large diffusion model decoder.

Only the big spaghetti inference code (+ weights) has been published, so there's a high entrance barrier for re-training / improving it.

Re: Show HN: Gdańsk AI – full stack AI voice chatbot

#35

Looks cool! Do you have a hosted version anywhere we could play around with?

Demo is live! https://bibop.app/ Let me know if there are any troubles running it. It works under Google Chrome

I turn off demo today. If you need any assistance with setting up your own instance, don't hesitate to contact me via email (in my profile) or open an issue on project's GitHub page
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