[disclaimer: Personal opinion, not that of my employer.] I had a coworker play me before/after of an early version of the codec "babbling" and it was definitel

[disclaimer: Personal opinion, not that of my employer.] I had a coworker play me before/after of an early version of the codec "babbling" and it was definitely uncanny valley. It looks like some work has been done on the problem since then. The second paper linked in the README.md of the repo talks about talks about a few strategies to reduce 'babbling' or 'babble'. For your reference, here's the citation and the link to the PDF. Denton, T., Luebs, A., Lim, F. S., Storus, A., Yeh, H., Kleijn, W. B., & Skoglund, J. (2021). Handling Background Noise in Neural Speech Generation. arXiv preprint arXiv:2102.11906. https://arxiv.org/pdf/2102.11906.pdf https://arxiv.org/pdf/2102.11906.pdf