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Exciting news on open-source neural voices!
Our first experiment is complete with fantastic results! Check out the audio sample attached to this post.
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Lino Morales
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QWow that sounds way better. I hope to see this working with NVDA in the future.
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the esoteric programmer
the esoteric programmer
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does this use piper, or something else? it sounds a bit flatter than other piper voices
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Musharraf :verified:
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@esoteric_programmer
It uses OptiSpeech, developed by me based on recent advances in neural TTS technology.
Piper is based on Vits, which dates back to 2021.
github.com/mush42/optispeech/

GitHub - mush42/optispeech: A lightweight end-to-end text-to-speech model

A lightweight end-to-end text-to-speech model. Contribute to mush42/optispeech development by creating an account on GitHub.
GitHub
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the esoteric programmer
the esoteric programmer
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is that capable of working in low resource environments? would the resulting thing be able to generate samples at a speed good enough for most screenreader use? or, is this not ment for that use case?
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Musharraf :verified:
Musharraf :verified:
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@esoteric_programmer
The model is designed from the ground up to be used with a screen reader running on the CPU.
It takes a lot of experimentation to strike the right balance between model efficiency and output quality. But I'm getting there!
@the esoteric programmer
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the pup of space
the pup of space
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wow it sounds so much better than vits! It sounds like it's not even based on hifigan stuff
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Musharraf :verified:
Musharraf :verified:
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@spacepup
It is not based on Vits.
While the underlying repo supports multiple model architectures, this particular run is based on ConvNeXt-TTS architecture:
ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/1…

Convnext-TTS And Convnext-VC: Convnext-Based Fast End-To-End Sequence-To-Sequence Text-To-Speech And Voice Conversion

End-to-end (E2E) sequence-to-sequence (S2S) neural text-to-speech (TTS) models and E2E-S2S neural voice conversion (VC) models can achieve high-quality speech synthesis with a single neural network.
ieeexplore.ieee.org
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the pup of space
the pup of space
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may i have a link to your optispeech hfc female checkpoint? I'd like to test this, i am really intreagued
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Musharraf :verified:
Musharraf :verified:
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@spacepup
Glad to hear this!
For now, I'm not making checkpoints available due to them being unstable.
While initial results are promising, I discovered an issue with FFT parameters. Fixed it, and currently waiting for the server to become available to fine-tune with corrected data.
Upon getting consistent output quality, I'll publish an online demo, and make the pretrained checkpoints available via HuggingFace.
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