I've found it excellent with really common accents but with other accents (that are pretty common too) it can easily get stuck picking a different accent.
For instance several Scottish recordings ended up Australian, likewise a fairly mild Yorkshire accent
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#22How does one train a TTS model with an LLM backbone? Practically, how does this work?
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#23Are these things good enough to narrate a book convincingly or does the voice lose coherence after a few paragraphs being spoken?
A year ago for fun I gave a friend a Carl Rogers therapy audiobook, for fun I made an Attenbrough esque reading and it was pretty good over a year ago so should be better now.
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#25Are these things good enough to narrate a book convincingly or does the voice lose coherence after a few paragraphs being spoken?
Once it's good enough Audible will be flooded with AI-narrated books so we'll know soon. (The only question is whether Amazon would disclose it, ofc)
Flip side is a solution where I can have a book without an audiobook auto-generated (or use an existing ebook rather than paying audible $30 for their version) and it's "good enough" is a legit improvement. AI generated isn't as good but it's better than nothing. Also, being able to interrupt and ask for more detail/context would be pretty nice. Like I'm reading some Pynchon and I have to stop sometimes and look up the name of a reference to some product nobody knows now, stuff like that.
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#26Silly question, what’s the lowest spec hardware this will run ?
Not a silly question, I came here to ask too. Curious to know whether I need a GPU costing 4 digits or if it will run on my 12-year-old thinkpad shitbox. Or something in between.
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#27Demos here: https://resemble-ai.github.io/chatterbox_demopage/ (not mine) This is a good release if they're not too cherry picked! I say this every time it comes up, and it's not as sexy to work on, but in my experiments voice AI is really held back by transcription, not TTS. Unless that's changed recently.
Play with the Huggingface demo and I'm guessing this page is a little cherry-picked? In particular I am not getting that kind of emotion in my responses.
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#28Are these things good enough to narrate a book convincingly or does the voice lose coherence after a few paragraphs being spoken?
Once it's good enough Audible will be flooded with AI-narrated books so we'll know soon. (The only question is whether Amazon would disclose it, ofc)
its watermarked
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#29How does it perform on multi-lingual tasks?
The readme says it only supports English
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#30Earlier quoted context omitted.
So? Acronym soup is bad communication.
I miss glossaries.
Good writing rules can still be used even for repo READMEs where the first time an acronym is used it is spelled out to show what the acronym means. Too many assumptions being made that everyone is going to know it. Sometimes the author can be too inside baseball and assumes anyone reading their README will already know about the subject. Not all devs are literature majors and probably just never think about these things