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by follower 2y ago
> empowered people to make lots of small useful utilities Specifically related to this aspect, currently the closest thing I'm aware of that comes to mind is the Godot "game" engine: https://godotengine.org Whi
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by follower 2y ago
After some brief research it seems the issue you're seeing may be a known bug in at least some versions/release of espeak-ng. Here's some potentially related links if you'd like to dig deeper: * "questions about man
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by follower 2y ago
Yeah, Pink Trombone is awesome [0]. :D Thanks for the link to the programmable version--I don't think I'd been aware of that previously... [0] And, from personal experience, also rather difficult to "safely" search for
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by follower 2y ago
Yeah, it would be nice if the financial backing behind Rhasspy/Piper led to improvements in espeak-ng too but based on my own development-related experience with the espeak-ng code base (related elsewhere in the thread) I suspect it wo
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by follower 2y ago
Depending on your definition of "huge", you might find Piper TTS fits your requirements: https://github.com/rhasspy/piper The size of the associated voice files varies but there are options that are under 10
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by follower 2y ago
It's been mentioned elsewhere in the comments but espeak-ng has historically prioritized accessibility use cases which is a domain where "quality" doesn't necessarily correlate with "naturalness" (e.g. there is
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by follower 2y ago
As I understand it DeepSpeech is no longer actively maintained by Mozilla: https://github.com/mozilla/DeepSpeech/issues/3693 For Text To Speech, I've found Piper TTS useful (for situations where "qu
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by follower 2y ago
Based on your description of your requirements Piper TTS might be of interest to you: https://github.com/rhasspy/piper
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by follower 2y ago
As I've learned over time (and other people in these comments have clarified) it turns out that evaluating "quality" of Text To Speech is somewhat dependent on the domain in which the audio output is being used (obviously wit
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by follower 2y ago
FYI re: Mimic 3: the main developer Michael Hansen (a.k.a synesthesiam) (who also previously developed Larynx TTS) now develops Piper TTS ( https://github.com/rhasspy/piper ) which is essentially a "successor"
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by follower 2y ago
Based on my own recent experience[0] with espeak-ng, IMO the project is currently in a really tough situation[3]: * the project seems to provide real value to a huge number of people who rely on it for reasons of accessibility (even more so
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by follower 2y ago
Watched this a couple of days ago and was just telling someone about it earlier today... The technical content is really engaging (the "joy"/"frustration" of digging in some ancient technology for no easily justifia
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by follower 2y ago
GitHub's code search functionality is only available to people who are logged in. It used to be possible to perform global/multi-org/multi-repo/single-repo code searches without being logged in but over time they remov
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by follower 3y ago
I was going to suggest considering looking into vosk but... clearly that suggestion isn't very useful to you. :)
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by follower 3y ago
If you're not already aware, the primary developer of Mimic 3 (and its non-Mimic predecessor Larynx) continued TTS-related development with Larynx and the renamed project Piper: https://github.com/rhasspy/piper La
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by follower 3y ago
Whatever platform/engine(s) you end up trying, you both might enjoy looking through the game assets that Kenney shares with the world for free: * https://kenney.nl/assets * https://kenney.nl/starter-kit
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by follower 3y ago
The YouTube channel "People Make Games" has a couple of reports that I'd suggest parents consider watching first before going down that road: * "Investigation: How Roblox Is Exploiting Young Game Developers": https
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by follower 3y ago
To expand on the sibling answer(s) to your question, there was a talk at the most recent Blender conference related to the topic of product visualisation which I found an enjoyable watch: * "Multiverse of madness - how we render millio
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by follower 3y ago
One great resource for GIF-related explorations is Matthew Flickinger's "What's In A GIF" project: * https://www.matthewflickinger.com/lab/whatsinagif/index.html The original version is appa
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by follower 3y ago
Yes, via https://docs.godotengine.org/en/4.1/contributing/development... : > Since Godot 4.0, the C++ standard used throughout the codebase is a subset of C++17. > [...] > Prior to Godot 4.0, the C++
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by follower 3y ago
At least some of the Dylan content of the second link (and maybe other stuff, I didn't look too closely) also appears to be available more directly here: * https://ftpmirror.your.org/pub/misc/apple/ftp.ap
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by follower 3y ago
Since the author (classichasclass) seems to be reading the comments, I'll mention this here... The article mentions "The OpenFileService part provided a menu option which would dynamically generate a Cyberdog item to a file refere
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by follower 3y ago
FWIW: 1. (at least some of) the links from the FAQ entries to license texts appear to be broken due (presumably) to a change/transformation from `<filename>.md` to directory path. 2. It might be helpful to more clearly identify t
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by follower 3y ago
> They could've simply integrated TypeScript into VSCode using a proprietary protocol to keep people locked to it. This was something that had puzzled me for a while until just today when reading another post on the original linked
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by follower 3y ago
I took a quick look at pianojacq.com and can relate to the sentiment you expressed with "I wanted to concentrate on making music, not on endless runs and other boring ways of practicing"--although in my case it relates more to cr
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by follower 3y ago
> improvements to code search The enshittification related to this feature includes: (1) Code search is no longer available without being logged in to GitHub--even if the search is restricted to a single repository. (2) This is compounde
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by follower 3y ago
Have you considered pricing the first batch at EUR 4000 each? :) To quote myself[0] from too long ago: "Very rarely will someone tell you that you're not charging as much for something as you should (perhaps with the exception of
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by follower 3y ago
...or if they refuse to dance like a monkey and close the window instead.
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by follower 3y ago
> [...] turn extremely pedantic - I have a knack for that You and me both. :) Thanks for your reply.
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by follower 3y ago
> What's the best open source text to speech? I haven't re-evaluated OSS TTS options for a few months but from my own experience earlier in the year I've been pleased with the results I've gotten from Piper: * https:

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