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Re:Deep-learning text-to-speech tool for generating voices o... by nmfisher on Thursday January 07, 2021 @10:22AM (#25672052)
This is actually quite impressive too, significantly better than the last time I looked into Mozilla TTS. Roughly how much audio does "two novels" equate to?
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Re:Deep-learning text-to-speech tool for generating voices o... by nmstoker on Thursday January 07, 2021 @06:37PM (#25679220)
Here's another sample with the same model+vocoder, this time reading from a Wikipedia article: https://m.soundcloud.com/user-726556259/q-learning-wavegrad-...
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Re:Deep-learning text-to-speech tool for generating voices o... by nmstoker on Thursday January 07, 2021 @06:26PM (#25679107)
It's about 32 hours of audio.

As some of the audio is read in different accents to the main accent used, ideally the different accent audio would have been removed. Doing so would be expected to help with voice quality, reducing the overall amount used and, as a bonus, cutting training time too.

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