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Re:Coqui.ai TTS: A Deep Learning Toolkit for Text-to-Speech by ks2048 on Tuesday June 11, 2024 @08:27PM (#40653205)
I don't know anything about the startup/VC world, but does anyone have insight on why this failed? It seemed to be one of the highest profile TTS projects and I thought money was just pouring into AI startups.
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Re:Coqui.ai TTS: A Deep Learning Toolkit for Text-to-Speech by eginhard on Wednesday June 12, 2024 @02:12AM (#40655085)
Some insights from one former lead: https://erogol.com/2024/01/09/goodsandbadsofopensource

TLDR: Making money from open-source is hard.

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