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This is excellent. I just tested the Finnish voices on my simple news archive [1], and the pronunciation was quite good and clear. It's unfortunate that I can'

This is excellent. I just tested the Finnish voices on my simple news archive [1], and the pronunciation was quite good and clear. It's unfortunate that I can't export audio clips locally; otherwise I would immediately look into using this for generating my Finnish flashcard decks from the same material [2]. I've thought about doing the same with the audio and video feeds included with this news broadcast, but getting Whisper to sync up properly with what's written down and cutting up the raw audio in that way still seems like more effort than I'm willing to invest right now. [1]: https://hiandrewquinn.github.io/selkouutiset-archive/ https://hiandrewquinn.github.io/selkouutiset-archive/ [2]: https://github.com/Selkouutiset-Archive/selkokortti https://github.com/Selkouutiset-Archive/selkokortti

gwd 2y ago
> It's unfortunate that I can't export audio clips locally; otherwise I would immediately look into using this for generating my Finnish flashcard decks from the same material [2]. elevenlabs has an API which seemed quite reasonable when I looked into it. A bit of python should get you what you want pretty quickly.
- hiAndrewQuinn 2y ago
  Oh! I'll look into that, thanks.
  - w3p706 2y ago
    I did exactly this for my finnish anki flashcards. you can see the implementation here: https://github.com/w3p706/anki-gen-fin/blob/main/ankigenfin/generate_audio.py https://github.com/w3p706/anki-gen-fin/blob/main/ankigenfin/... If you are looking to convert very short texts or words into speach, I had best result with eleven_multilingual_v2 with the following text for tts "Hän sanoo rauhallisesti ja hitaasti: <break time=\"1.0s\" /> '${text}'" An then i use a postprocessing to split at the silence. This was nessesary as you cannot set the language explicitly and it is detected from the input. With eleven_turbo_v2_5 you can set the language, but the results are not as good.
    - hiAndrewQuinn 2y ago
      This is a cool repo. Interesting approach using uralicNLP for morphology, that's not one I've seen before. This repo's README.md is excellent and thorough too - I'll probably come back to this in March and give it a spin for myself, just to see what you're up to in a little more detail.

gwd 2y ago

> It's unfortunate that I can't export audio clips locally; otherwise I would immediately look into using this for generating my Finnish flashcard decks from the same material [2]. elevenlabs has an API which seemed quite reasonable when I looked into it. A bit of python should get you what you want pretty quickly.

hiAndrewQuinn 2y ago
Oh! I'll look into that, thanks.
- w3p706 2y ago
  I did exactly this for my finnish anki flashcards. you can see the implementation here: https://github.com/w3p706/anki-gen-fin/blob/main/ankigenfin/generate_audio.py https://github.com/w3p706/anki-gen-fin/blob/main/ankigenfin/... If you are looking to convert very short texts or words into speach, I had best result with eleven_multilingual_v2 with the following text for tts "Hän sanoo rauhallisesti ja hitaasti: <break time=\"1.0s\" /> '${text}'" An then i use a postprocessing to split at the silence. This was nessesary as you cannot set the language explicitly and it is detected from the input. With eleven_turbo_v2_5 you can set the language, but the results are not as good.
  - hiAndrewQuinn 2y ago
    This is a cool repo. Interesting approach using uralicNLP for morphology, that's not one I've seen before. This repo's README.md is excellent and thorough too - I'll probably come back to this in March and give it a spin for myself, just to see what you're up to in a little more detail.