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Hi Brandon, nice work! Some questions to learn more if you don't mind - are you using Tacoton2 for the voice generation? If it's Tacotron2, are you using a base

Hi Brandon, nice work! Some questions to learn more if you don't mind - are you using Tacoton2 for the voice generation? If it's Tacotron2, are you using a base model before you train up new speakers, or is each speaker model trained from scratch? How long do you run the training for normally (for both cases), and what hardware are you running? You mentioned elsewhere you're renting the V100s, what services have you used, and would you recommend them? By the way, your Trumped.com is throwing some errors in the console so the site isn't working for me. Keep up the good work!

echelon 6y ago
> are you using Tacoton2 for the voice generation? Nope. glowtts. Tacotron2 has higher fidelity (it's a denser network), but it's really slow and expensive to run. > are you using a base model before you train up new speakers Absolutely! Transfer learning is essential to training on sparse or limited data, and it's incredibly effective. > How long do you run the training for normally > and what hardware are you running? I think I explained this in my other answer? But if not, it's typically awhile. The best guiding light though is to frequently listen to the inference results. Are they improving? Watch the Tensorboard graphs to see what loss and attention look like and make sure you're actually learning. > By the way, your Trumped.com is throwing some errors in the console so the site isn't working for me. Oh no. I realize there are some bugs I left for iPhone (simply because I don't have one), and I really need to get those fixed. I'm not sure if this is your case or not. Perhaps the pods with the Trump model are also experiencing duress -- I'll need to investigate that too. I have yet to hook up monitoring (yikes).