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Re:WhisperSpeech – An open source text-to-speech system buil... by yorwba on Thursday January 18, 2024 @10:40AM (#39043080)
I have forced alignments, too.

E.g. for the True Story of Ah Q https://github.com/Yorwba/LiteratureForEyesAndEars/tree/mast... .align.json is my homegrown alignment format, .srt are standard subtitles, .txt is the text, but note that in some places I have [[original text||what it is pronounced as]] annotations to make the forced alignment work better. (E.g. the "." in LibriVox.org, pronounced as 點 "diǎn" in Mandarin.) Oh, and cmn-Hans is the same thing transliterated into Simplified Chinese.

The corresponding LibriVox URL is predictably https://librivox.org/the-true-story-of-ah-q-by-xun-lu/

Re:WhisperSpeech – An open source text-to-speech system buil... by jpcl on Thursday January 18, 2024 @12:14PM (#39044422)
Thanks, I'll check it out. I don't know any Chinese so I'll probably reach out to you for some help :)
Re:WhisperSpeech – An open source text-to-speech system buil... by yorwba on Thursday January 18, 2024 @12:17PM (#39044470)
Sure, feel free to email me at the address included in every commit in the repo.