Re:ChatTTS-Best open source TTS Model
by abetusk on Wednesday May 29, 2024 @12:08PM
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You're pointing out that their license is not open source. I agree. It's not. My point is that they're not claiming it is.
I'll concede that the README is misleading but, as far as I can tell, it's not making any claims that the repo is open source. They may hint at it in an underhanded way, like having "[email protected]" as an email that you should contact them at, or make promises about open sourcing it "in the future", but they make no specific claims about their model being open source.
I also agree that corporations and many academics do a source of "open washing" by claiming "source available" is equivalent to "open source" but my point remains, this project doesn't actually claim to be open source.
And thanks for the link to piper. I do wish there were a list of "awesome (actual) open source tts/tts/misc." list somewhere, so, for those of us that care, can figure out where the actual open source models and data are.
I'll concede that the README is misleading but, as far as I can tell, it's not making any claims that the repo is open source. They may hint at it in an underhanded way, like having "[email protected]" as an email that you should contact them at, or make promises about open sourcing it "in the future", but they make no specific claims about their model being open source.
I also agree that corporations and many academics do a source of "open washing" by claiming "source available" is equivalent to "open source" but my point remains, this project doesn't actually claim to be open source.
And thanks for the link to piper. I do wish there were a list of "awesome (actual) open source tts/tts/misc." list somewhere, so, for those of us that care, can figure out where the actual open source models and data are.