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Re:Coqui TTS: a deep learning toolkit for Text-to-Speech on Monday August 08, 2022 @09:58AM (#32385442)
The repo itself has good tutorials under the notebooks/ folder to get started with training and generating synthesized voices. Check out "Tutorial_2_train_your_first_TTS_model" you could start there.

FYI the format that they expect in metadata.csv has changed over time, it used to be "filename|transcribed text" and now it expects "filename|speaker name|transcribed text" but that's not reflected in the notebook.

Re:Coqui TTS: a deep learning toolkit for Text-to-Speech on Monday August 08, 2022 @09:49AM (#32385338)
Coincidentally I've just started playing around with Coqui TTS for training on my own experimental datasets. I was naive enough to think I could get it to run on Windows instead of Linux, I would suggest you save yourselves the time and start from Linux if you're giving it a go!
Re:Ask HN: What browser extensions are a must-have in 2021? on Tuesday November 23, 2021 @04:57AM (#29316176)
To add to the list of great extensions mentioned here:

- News Feed Eradicator

Inspired from "Indistractible" by Nir Eyal, I found it very useful in removing unnecessary visual noise and distractions when I check my messages on Facebook.

Re:Google outage – resolved on Monday December 14, 2020 @07:02AM (#25416261)
Can confirm from the Netherlands, Hangouts also down.
Re:Show HN: Slices – puzzle game on Wednesday December 09, 2020 @06:54AM (#25357672)
I had the impression that the optimal swipes had an equal amount of dots on either side with the swipe going across as many open gaps (edges) of the shape as possible.