> DeepThroat (/ˈdēpˌTHrōt/): Natural emotive high-fidelity text-to-speech synthesis with minimal viable data
Shut up and take my money.
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#142shouldn't there be a more descriptive title for this
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#143Earlier quoted context omitted.
How do you have the money to support this project as an undergrad?
I have not been with MIT in years. I had a successful exit not too long after graduation, and I've been spending most of my earnings on this project. As an undergrad, I was completely broke. I figured that keeping the project free to use was the best thing I could possibly do with my research as I continued to work on it.
Why do you keep it up and burning the money? Can't you continue/do your research without a public website?
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#144Earlier quoted context omitted.
I have not been with MIT in years. I had a successful exit not too long after graduation, and I've been spending most of my earnings on this project. As an undergrad, I was completely broke. I figured that keeping the project free to use was the best thing I could possibly do with my research as I continued to work on it.
Why do you keep it up and burning the money? Can't you continue/do your research without a public website?
>Why do you keep it up and burning the money?
I can afford it.
>Can't you continue/do your research without a public website?
Yes, but the website has multiple purposes. It serves as a proof of concept of a platform that allows anyone to create content, even if they can't hire someone to voice their projects.
It also demonstrates the progress of my research in a far more engaging manner - by being able to use the actual model, you can discover things about it that even I wasn't aware of (such as getting characters to make gasping noises or moans by placing commas in between certain phonemes).
It also doesn't let me get away with picking and choosing the best results and showing off only the ones that work (which I believe is a big problem endemic in ML today - it's disingenuous and misleading). Being able to interact with the model with no filter allows the user to judge exactly how good the current work is at face value.
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#145Earlier quoted context omitted.
How do you have the money to support this project as an undergrad?
I have not been with MIT in years. I had a successful exit not too long after graduation, and I've been spending most of my earnings on this project. As an undergrad, I was completely broke. I figured that keeping the project free to use was the best thing I could possibly do with my research as I continued to work on it.
Have you thought about other hosters?
Maybe try contabo.com or hetzner.com
Should be a lot cheaper if you mainly need CPU power.
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#146Earlier quoted context omitted.
I have not been with MIT in years. I had a successful exit not too long after graduation, and I've been spending most of my earnings on this project. As an undergrad, I was completely broke. I figured that keeping the project free to use was the best thing I could possibly do with my research as I continued to work on it.
Have you thought about other hosters? Maybe try contabo.com or hetzner.com Should be a lot cheaper if you mainly need CPU power.
Unfortunately, this is mostly run on the GPU. Believe it or not, AWS was by far the cheapest.
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#147Earlier quoted context omitted.
I heavily doubt it's "several thousands of dollars"...
It is indeed several thousands of dollars a month. I can show you AWS invoices, if you're skeptical. Just send me an email and I'd be happy to show proof.
No, you don't need to send me pictures of your invoice...I'll just take your word for it then.
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#148Earlier quoted context omitted.
Same here. And I figured if a hobby project had such a disclaimer it would be important and so I was interested to read what the rules were. But how spoiled and precious are we all today when we can’t even read a few paragraphs and accept some terms to be able to try something cool for free!
it kind of sucks, not accurate or convincing. if they spent less time making the disclaimer and more on the product… Reminds me of the 90s when everyone had a secret weapon IP in the making, until open source showed by example how futile and silly that approach was. You want people to use your work, because then they need you.
After reading the replies of the creator here on the effort that they have put into the project, would you still stand by this opinion?
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#149They named their tts "Deep Throat"? Why would you?
It could be a reference to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep_Throat_(Watergate)
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#150Earlier quoted context omitted.
To use 15.ai without accepting the TOS just paste this in the console document.querySelector('.vm--modal').remove();document.querySelector('.vm--container').remove(); Or add it to some default script that is applied to all pages, that way when you visit 15.ai you never even see the TOS box in the first place.
It seems a bit overkill to do this instead of just waiting 10 seconds to click on the little green button, but I suppose this is a viable alternative.
The main difference is you get to use the service without actually agreeing to any TOS.
But also, 10 seconds is extremely annoying.