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The speed of improvement of tts models reminds me of early days of Stable Diffusion. Can't wait until I can generate audiobooks without infinite pain. If I was an investor I'd short Audible.
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But that's my point. You'll stop, switch, speak, stop, switch, resume. You're not going to be "I was in 東京 yesterday" as a single continuous sentence. It'll have to be broken up to three separate sentences spoken back to back, even for humans.
>"I was in 東京 yesterday" I think it's the wrong example, because this is actually very common if you're a Chinese speaker. Actually, people tend to say the name of the cities in their own countries in their native language. > I went to Nantes [0], to eat some kouign-amann [1]. As a French, both [0] and [1] will be spoken the French way on the fly in the sentence, while the other words are in English. Switching happen…
Perhaps I have to admit that my particular primary language is officially a human equivalent of an esoteric language; the myth that it's a complex language is increasingly becoming obsolete(for good!), but maybe it still qualify as being esoteric one that are not insignificantly more incompatible with others.
claude plugin marketplace add pchalasani/claude-code-tools
claude plugin install voice@cctools-plugins
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Good question. If a license says "you may use this, you are prohibited from using this", and I use it, did I break the license?
I think if they took you to court for cloning someone's voice without permission they would probably lose because this conflict makes the terms unclear.
it'd be nice to get some idea of what kind of hardware a laptop needs to be able to run this voice model.
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It seems more likely that people will buy a digital copy of the book for a few bucks and then run the TTS themselves on devices they already own.
Not likely at all, people pay for convenience. They don't want to do that
Good quality but unfortunately it is single language English only.
https://github.com/jamesfebin/pocket-tts-candle
The port supports:
- Native compilation with zero Python runtime dependency
- Streaming inference
- Metal acceleration for macOS
- Voice cloning (with the mimi feature)
Note: This was vibecoded (AI-assisted), but features were manually tested.
Perhaps I have been not talking to voice models that much or the chatgpt voice always felt weird and off because I was thinking it goes to a cloud server and everything but from Pocket TTS I discovered unmute.sh which is open source and I think is from the same company as Pocket TTS/can I think use Pocket TTS as well I saw some agentic models at 4B or similar which can punch above its weights or even some basic model…
Great find! unmute was a trip to play with