I would never trust the company that acquired Omnivore only to sunset it with 2 weeks notice to retrieve data. Companies won't stop pulling this garbage unless we stop supporting them.
wait till you find out about Scam Altam and his company x)
ElevenReader
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Re: ElevenReader
#172Earlier quoted context omitted.
How do you feel about what word processors did to the typist career?
How do you feel about replacing general labor, period, and doing so for a class that no longer maintains a semblance of a social safety net? Do you think there's a difference between displacing one profession and displacing most professions at once? Do you people ever step out of the abstract and think about the actual context you're living in?
I will gladly pay taxes directed for retraining artists, but I will not pay to listen to Wil Wheaton narrate another book badly when my computer can do it better.
Re: ElevenReader
#173Earlier quoted context omitted.
> It's unfortunate that I can't export audio clips locally; otherwise I would immediately look into using this for generating my Finnish flashcard decks from the same material [2]. elevenlabs has an API which seemed quite reasonable when I looked into it. A bit of python should get you what you want pretty quickly.
Oh! I'll look into that, thanks.
I did exactly this for my finnish anki flashcards. you can see the implementation here: https://github.com/w3p706/anki-gen-fin/blob/main/ankigenfin/...
If you are looking to convert very short texts or words into speach, I had best result with eleven_multilingual_v2 with the following text for tts "Hän sanoo rauhallisesti ja hitaasti: '${text}'" An then i use a postprocessing to split at the silence.
This was nessesary as you cannot set the language explicitly and it is detected from the input.
With eleven_turbo_v2_5 you can set the language, but the results are not as good.
Re: ElevenReader
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My bad. I misread the official website: > We don't currently support Apple Silicon, as there is not yet a Kokoro implementation in MLX. As soon as it will be available, we will support it. I thought that meant that it didn't support Apple Silicon in general, but they were just talking about GPU support.
though they wouldn't need to use MLX, could also use pytorch etc
I think there's an issue somewhere in Kokoro though which means it doesn't actually take advantage of MPS, I did get a modified version up and running, but it was no faster than CPU, even though it passed all the internal tests using mps.
I might try using F5-TTS-MLX instead actually (https://github.com/lucasnewman/f5-tts-mlx) and see how that does.
Re: ElevenReader
#175try https://clipcast.it
Ingests URLs in a variety of ways, converts to natural language audio, puts it in your podcast feed.
Free to use.
Re: ElevenReader
#176Earlier quoted context omitted.
How do you feel about what word processors did to the typist career?
How do you feel about replacing general labor, period, and doing so for a class that no longer maintains a semblance of a social safety net? Do you think there's a difference between displacing one profession and displacing most professions at once? Do you people ever step out of the abstract and think about the actual context you're living in?
I mentioned typists, you abstracted it to “most professions at once”, and you give me a hard time for being too abstract?
I agree with your criticism, just not sure you understand who you were criticizing. But I hope you can think about actual context and see if that tempers what seems like a pretty emotional take on AI.
Re: ElevenReader
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Why would you pay more than necessary to attract the voice talent you need? There aren’t (m)any businesses that pay multiples of market rates just to be nice.
There are plenty of businesses that assign integrity a non-zero value, because most businesses reflect people. Maybe you're in a bubble devoid of that kind of thinking, so it seems very foreign or quaint. Even then it's short-sighted thinking at best: the "market rate" is not some magic self-optimizing number. Underpaying their creators is just creating the opportunity for someone to take the best of them on better t…
I don’t disagree that overpaying can be a good strategy, but I question whether it has any bearing on integrity.
I hire someone to paint a fence. We agree on $200 for the job and I pay them $200. We both know that it’s undifferentiated work and I could find a dozen other people who would do it for $200.
Where’s the lack of integrity? Or does it just appear if I know that I actually could afford to pay them $10,000, but chose not to?
Re: ElevenReader
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What's the contribution model moving forward? I see the repository is still active, but is it not still under the Eleven's control? How will it evolve when they stop accepting pull requests?
It won’t be under Elevens control, part of the deal I believe. They’re allowed to remain opensource. Not folded into ElevenLabs. As for contribution model, it’s still something I’m trying to figure out. For the moment, it was just trying to get a self host build ready and working. But I have admin rights to the repo, and am not working for ElevenLabs, nor officially Omnivore. I was just a contributor before.
That's good to know, thanks.
Re: ElevenReader
#179It's a nice idea, but pretty much useless without a pocket integration or an api to programmatically import content.
Re: ElevenReader
#180Earlier quoted context omitted.
You start doing that for text from ebooks and Audible is going to want to have words with you.
I do it only for long articles. Not interested in converting fiction into audio books unless the quality rivals that of real storytellers. And, you know, this is not a service I'd provide others. Just for my own use running from my PC. Audible won't know or care, just as no one cares if you borrow a book from the library and photocopy it for your own use.
Kindle originally had text to speech functionality. The Audibook people sued and Amazon went in to buy Audible