It'd be great if it supported stdin&stdout for text and wav. Then it could get piped right into afplay
Pocket TTS: A high quality TTS that gives your CPU a voice
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Re: Pocket TTS: A high quality TTS that gives your CPU a voice
#62Good quality but unfortunately it is single language English only.
I echo this. For a TTS system to be in any way useful outside the tiny population of the world that speaks exclusively English, it must be multilingual and dynamically switch between languages pretty much per word. Cool tech demo though!
> it must be multilingual and dynamically switch between languages pretty much per word
Not abundantly obviously a satire and so interjecting: humans, including professional "simultaneous" interpreters, can't do this. This is not how languages work.
Re: Pocket TTS: A high quality TTS that gives your CPU a voice
#63Earlier quoted context omitted.
I echo this. For a TTS system to be in any way useful outside the tiny population of the world that speaks exclusively English, it must be multilingual and dynamically switch between languages pretty much per word. Cool tech demo though!
> it must be multilingual and dynamically switch between languages pretty much per word Not abundantly obviously a satire and so interjecting: humans, including professional "simultaneous" interpreters, can't do this. This is not how languages work.
You can speak one language, switch to another language for one word, and continue speaking in the previous language.
Re: Pocket TTS: A high quality TTS that gives your CPU a voice
#64it'd be nice to get some idea of what kind of hardware a laptop needs to be able to run this voice model.
Re: Pocket TTS: A high quality TTS that gives your CPU a voice
#65How feasible would it be to build this project into a small static binary that could be distributed? The dependencies are pretty big.
you can track this issue
https://github.com/mmwillet/TTS.cpp/issues/127
Re: Pocket TTS: A high quality TTS that gives your CPU a voice
#66I'm psyched to see so much interest in my post about Kyutai's latest model! I'm working on part of a related team in Paris that's building off Kutai's research to provide enterprise-grade voice solutions. If anyone building in this space I'd love to chat and share some our upcoming models and capabilities that I am told are SOTA. Please don't hesitate to ping me via the address in my profile.
Re: Pocket TTS: A high quality TTS that gives your CPU a voice
#67Earlier quoted context omitted.
But it wouldn't be for those who "speak exclusively English", rather, for those who speak English. Not only that but it's also common to have system language set to English, even if one's language is different. There's about 1.5B English speakers in the planet.
Let's indeed limit the use case to the system language, let's say of a mobile phone. You pull up a map and start navigation. All the street names are in the local language, and no, transliterating the local names to the English alphabet does not make them understandable when spoken by TTS. And not to mention localised foreign names which then are completely mangled by transliterating them to English. You pull up a br…
If you don't speak the local language anyway, you can't decode pronounced spoken local language names anyway. Your speech sub-systems can't lock and sync to the audio track containing languages you don't speak. Let alone transliterate or pronounce.
Multilingual doesn't mean language agnostic. We humans are always monolingual, just multi-language hot-swappable if trained. It's more like you can make;make install docker, after which you can attach/detach into/out of alternate environments while on terminal to do things or take in/out notes.
People sometimes picture multilingualism as owning a single joined-together super-language in the brain. That usually doesn't happen. Attempting this especially at young age could lead a person into a "semi-lingual" or "double-limited" state where they are not so fluent or intelligent in any particular languages.
And so, trying to make an omnilingual TTS for criticizing someone not devoting significant resources at it, don't make much sense.
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#68Earlier quoted context omitted.
If memory serves, the license is the ultimate source of truth on what is allowed or not. You cannot add some section that isn't in the text of the license (at least in the US and other countries that use similar legal systems) on some website and expect it to hold up in court because the license doesn't include that text. I know of a few other bigger-name projects that try to pull these kinds of stunts because they d…
The copyright holder can set whatever license they want, including writing their own. In this case, I'd interpret it as they made up a new licence based on MIT, but their addendum makes it non-MIT, but something else. I agree with what others said; this "new" license has internal conflicts.
The license is clearly defined. It would be misleading, possibly fraudulent for them to then override the license elsewhere.
Simply, it's MIT licensed. If they want to change that, they have to remove that license file OR clearly update it to be a modified version of MIT.
Re: Pocket TTS: A high quality TTS that gives your CPU a voice
#69Just added it to my codex plugin that reads summary of what it finishes after each turn and I am spooked! runs well on my macbook, much better than Samantha!
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#70Haven't we had TTS for like 20+ years? Why does AI need to be shoved into it all of a sudden. Total waste of electricity.