Deep-learning text-to-speech tool for generating voices of various characters

Re:Deep-learning text-to-speech tool for generating voices o... by vsupalov on Tuesday January 05, 2021 @11:25PM (#25654659)

Yeah, running anything related to AI involves GPU instances. An alternative is to point people to using Google Colab where you can get access to a GPU for free, but that's not a smooth end user experience for most folks.

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Re:Deep-learning text-to-speech tool for generating voices o... by aisofteng on Wednesday January 06, 2021 @12:01AM (#25654794)

> running anything related to AI involves GPU instances

This is not true. A _lot_ of AI applications use algorithms such as logistic regression or random forests and don’t need GPUs - partly, of course, because GPUs are so expensive and these approaches are good enough (or more than good enough) for many applications.

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Re:Deep-learning text-to-speech tool for generating voices o... by vsupalov on Wednesday January 06, 2021 @12:20AM (#25654870)

Whoops, sloppy generalization on my part. You're completely right of course, thanks! I've been focusing on deep learning a lot lately, to the point where AI has become an alias for those exciting new GPU-heavy techniques.

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