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Re:Ask HN: Most interesting tech you built for just yourself? by follower on Saturday April 29, 2023 @01:59PM (#35755382)
Since I've been playing around with Piper Text-to-Speech & the associated LibriTTS voice model, I couldn't resist:

* https://rancidbacon.gitlab.io/piper-tts-demos/#various_radio...

If the six speakers I selected for the demo don't match your taste in DJs, there's around 900 more in that voice model to try... :D

(The 3 audio players differ only in file format & whether I ran the output through normalization.)

Also, I was pretty impressed/surprised at the quality of their pronunciation of the meta-syntactic variables. :)

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Re:Ask HN: Most interesting tech you built for just yourself? by mixmastamyk on Saturday April 29, 2023 @10:24PM (#35759187)
Ha, that’s awesome. Several of the voices sounded just right for radio. I see the lib is limited to 24khz, maybe why it has an almost AM radio sound?
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Re:Ask HN: Most interesting tech you built for just yourself? by drivers99 on Sunday April 30, 2023 @09:11AM (#35762225)
They all sound out of breath. Not sure what causes that effect/perception. Listening to it again, it seems like the plosives (like d, or t) have no pop like there was no air pressure behind them.
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