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  • BasToTheMaxBasToTheMax Member

    @Saragoldfarb said:

    @noob404 said:

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    Anybody online right now? Only roughly two days remain for the lottery draw.

    Good morning

    Good morning, Bas. What's on the agenda for the day?

    More internship and some minecraft after that

    Streaming?

    He streams Minecraft gameplay on Twitch. He'll tell you more about it.

    I'm sure he will.

    Yeah. Will probably stream some mc after intern today

  • noob404noob404 Member

    @Saragoldfarb said:

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    Should give my intern a raise

    How much we talking?

    Not sure. Will discuss next year. Christmas bonus for sure.

    Just curious. Which festivals do actually warrant a bonus in corporate offices in NL?

  • noob404noob404 Member

    @Saragoldfarb said:
    Aight. Powernap time. I'll be on the couch.

    Come back refreshed as always.

  • noob404noob404 Member

    @BasToTheMax said:

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    @BasToTheMax said:

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    Anybody online right now? Only roughly two days remain for the lottery draw.

    Good morning

    Good morning, Bas. What's on the agenda for the day?

    More internship and some minecraft after that

    Streaming?

    He streams Minecraft gameplay on Twitch. He'll tell you more about it.

    I'm sure he will.

    Yeah. Will probably stream some mc after intern today

    BTW, how many subs have you got at this point? BTW, missed to ask you yesterday, you talked about Reddit advertising. Paid one or you just posting about the twitch on related subreddits?

  • ralfralf Member

    @Saragoldfarb said:

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    @c1t1zen said:

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    @c1t1zen said: I'm really wishing RackNerd had a dedicated box with GPU for setting up an LLM and API.

    Won't that be expensive?

    Yeah, That would be more than I could afford but a man can dream.

    If you have a PC at home, you could always use that!
    Or use CPU only processing! :neutral:

    I have personally been using CPU only for training a TTS model, and it isn't as slow as I'd imagined but having watched videos of people doing it with GPUs and the speed at which they complete, I am convinced GPU is much better. Moreover, there are processed which would even deny processing without a GPU

    Do you want to share any info on that? It's something I'd like to look at myself, but training a model on my voice.

    If you want to look at yourself, buy a mirror

  • SaragoldfarbSaragoldfarb Member, Megathread Squad

    Back. That was nice.

  • SaragoldfarbSaragoldfarb Member, Megathread Squad

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    @bchot said:
    @noob404 i realized i actually saw Banlieue 13 and recent enough to remember it well. maybe it was on NF? yeah, i did it on NF. very cool movie. fast paced. and nice cars - loved it. as for District 13: Ultimatum - it was not on NF, so I will be watching it at some point.

    but for now i am watching HEROES!! =) it's one of those shows that i loved but never rewatched.. i remember back when it first aired rushing home from work to see it. first it would be a quick dinner, then Chuck, theh Heroes.. Chuck i rewatched since then (i was very very big fan of young, sexy and beautiful Yvonne Strahovsky), but Heroes - never until today...

    Ah, I kinda liked it at the start of the series. Didn't finish but it's easy to get hooked!

    I am still to watch the other two that bchot and ralf recommended.

    Maybe around Christmas and you have some time off.

    Prolly not. Will have a lot of work piled up for Xmas this time.

    Cos of this?

  • SaragoldfarbSaragoldfarb Member, Megathread Squad

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    I am guessing it's easy for us to reach 1000 pages today.

    Easy..m nah, hard work to keep up.

    Kinda yes, But, maybe you could chat online when members are here.

    I always do.

  • SaragoldfarbSaragoldfarb Member, Megathread Squad

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    Gonna take a bit more time, guys. Will be back for a quick chat soon ,bchot and pudlez

    Good noob ain't 404 anymore!

    Lol! Never 404. I am just a call away

    Long distance relationship

    Yah, I domaintain that with this thread in a way :lol:

    Sure do.

  • SaragoldfarbSaragoldfarb Member, Megathread Squad

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    @bchot said:
    963 is reverse 69 with butt..

    Ahw... No 969 anymore now :(

    You just missed it

    Too bad , me sad :(

    More milestones to come.

    Oh yes, there's gonna be another one today.

  • SaragoldfarbSaragoldfarb Member, Megathread Squad

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    Sara, come chat with us on page 970. I think ralf.is also online

    Rat bruthah busy wanking.

    Even ralf wants to chat online actively.

    Ink kw he does, he'll be here.

  • SaragoldfarbSaragoldfarb Member, Megathread Squad

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    @noob404 i realized i actually saw Banlieue 13 and recent enough to remember it well. maybe it was on NF? yeah, i did it on NF. very cool movie. fast paced. and nice cars - loved it. as for District 13: Ultimatum - it was not on NF, so I will be watching it at some point.

    but for now i am watching HEROES!! =) it's one of those shows that i loved but never rewatched.. i remember back when it first aired rushing home from work to see it. first it would be a quick dinner, then Chuck, theh Heroes.. Chuck i rewatched since then (i was very very big fan of young, sexy and beautiful Yvonne Strahovsky), but Heroes - never until today...

    Oh that's good. I didn't actually notice any cars in the movie, oh yes, there were some with the drug lords and such. I found the stunts in the movie insane. It was my first exposure to parkour, so, I found that movie to be one of its kind.
    It became more interesting when I learned that David Belle was prolly the first to popularise parkour in France. You can still watch some videos of him doing those insane stunts off roofs and what not.

    Parkour is nice. My kid loves it.

    Do they practice parkour?

    Yes, since last month.

    LOL! Okay, I can tell you are kidding.

    No for real, only just started.

  • noob404noob404 Member

    Gotta go. Be back later or maybe tomorrow morning. @ralf BTW I left the long comment on TTS on page 978.

    Thanked by 1ralf
  • SaragoldfarbSaragoldfarb Member, Megathread Squad

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    Oh this giveaway that's supposed to have happened already I think has some sweet prizes! Dustin sees us and delivers!

    Did I miss a giveaway?

    No

    But you missed an awesome video (the sealion one a few up). So catchy.

    Okay :lol:
    Will catch up later. Got a busy day ahead. Will join you whenever I have time in between.
    Right now, have an hour or so of sleep left in me before I get to work. Or, so I believe.

    Sleep tight

    Thank you, sara. See ya guys later. Have a nice day or night.

    Off as well

    Oh didn't realise it was night for you.

    Of course it is. Almost midnight.

    Past even :(

    Oh sorry, I got our timezones the wrong way round. Wow, you were up really late some nights recently then!

    Always am this time of the year. Too little ours in a day. Powernap at noon and I'm golden :)

    Powernap and a shower, got it! :p

    Powernaps never worked for me. I need full cycle naps

    I don't... My brain all fired up again after 15-20 mins.

    Used to work when I was younger, but, not anymore.

    I couldn't when I was young. Can now. Can go to sleep like in sec.s.

  • SaragoldfarbSaragoldfarb Member, Megathread Squad

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    here's my girl Yvonne

    Oh my God! Am I the only one who feels, the actresses from 90s and early 2000s were mostly much more beautiful than the current ones (mostly artificial). Or, maybe it's just the generation gap.

    Maybe . I dig Jessica Alba

    Oh yes. She was a beauty.

    Still is.

    Haven't seen her around in any recent movies.

    Yeah, not sure what's up. Need to investigate.

  • SaragoldfarbSaragoldfarb Member, Megathread Squad

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    Gonna take a bit more time, guys. Will be back for a quick chat soon ,bchot and pudlez

    don't you worry about me, i'll be fine.

    Alright, I am back here for a few, gotta handle work simultaneously as well.

    Learned Multitasking. Nice!

    Already mastered it at this point :)

    Good!

    But, can't keep oing it for more than a few weeks at a time.

    How ok... Practice more them.

  • SaragoldfarbSaragoldfarb Member, Megathread Squad

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    963 is reverse 69 with butt..

    All multiples of 3 as well. Yah, I have taken an interest in math :lol:

    A+

    Thank you for that grade. Here in some states we follow the O grading system

    10+ then

    Works for me. Thanks.

    Welcome.

  • SaragoldfarbSaragoldfarb Member, Megathread Squad

    @noob404 said:
    Sara's prolly wondering why the page numbers keep increasing exponentially :lol:

    Yeah, why that? Wth. What's going on?

  • SaragoldfarbSaragoldfarb Member, Megathread Squad

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    How many hours are there in a day? Multiply that by 30. You could get the approximate number of comments it'd take for us to reach page 1000!
    But, no one would wanna calculate that. BTW, anyone does abacus?

    Too much thinking....

  • SaragoldfarbSaragoldfarb Member, Megathread Squad

    Brain still bit sleepy.

  • SaragoldfarbSaragoldfarb Member, Megathread Squad

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    @Beniskickbutt said:
    Hello world from page 963

    Hello, old sailor. Planning to join the crew atleast in the NY thread, if it happens?

    I'll donate a sailor shirt.

    He will need one..thanks for that

    Looks silly but let's do itm

    Oh no, not for old sailors.

    He old?

  • SaragoldfarbSaragoldfarb Member, Megathread Squad

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    @PuDLeZ said:
    So how have you've been @noob404 ? Feels like a month since I've last been active in this thread. I knew my posting would slow down in this thread as I always get busy this time of year (pushes before the hard freeze for the holidays and end of year) but I kind of didn't expect to get distracted by some new toys as well :lol:

    Oh yes, feels like, it's been a really long time since we last hung out on the thread. Yah, I can understand, the retro console, the mods and what not would keep you busy. And, yes, this time of the year is also when clients expect you to prepone deadlines and whatnot. So, it does get pretty hectic. Do join from time to time, if you can though.

    Always

    I only experienced it last year. Someone informed me it was common in the freelancing space

    Very much so. Freaking clients ain't no fun.

    Yah, but, they pay for our food, so, can't be too ungrateful, ig.

    Also paying for my pool so yeah, probably should thank en.

  • ralfralf Member

    @noob404 said:
    @ralf Over the past few months, I researched a few TTS models and here are my findings that might help you.

    These are the models I found best for most purposes:-
    1. https://github.com/index-tts/index-tts - Imo, the best out there, but, no clear licence information. So, can't be sure if it can be used for commercial projects. One of the best features here is that it can also very reliably do emotions with weightage. There are several emotions that it supports by default. I tried mailing their team regarding clarification on the licence terms, but, they never replied. So, I moved onto the next one I found most suitable for my use case.
    2. https://github.com/SWivid/F5-TTS - A very close second. Doesn't have emotion control and such. But, I guess, it can be trained to do that using multiple voices and using specific datasets using the custom toml file they specify on their Github. I did try that though. But, didn't find emotion control very smooth. Sometimes, teh voice is just shouting. But, cloning is prefect, I'd dare sya close to a 100% match.

    Training your own voice
    Both of the above models, esp. F5 has a training pipeline within the original source code that you can use very easily. For preparation of the dataset, i.e., to record your voice, I recommend https://github.com/rhasspy/piper-recording-studio. It has readmymade dataset for many popular accents. You can also add your own, which I do recommend to make sure there is good phoneme coverage. Remember, most of these models use pinyin characters, so phoneme coverage is important.
    As for the dataset size, it depends, if you wanna train from scratch, you will need thousands of hours of raw voice data. But, if you can work by pre-training an already available model, I recommend F5_TTS instead of E2_TTS. Might take a bit of trial and error to find what workds for you best. If pre-training an already available model, you just need an hour of data, will work even with a few minutes of data, but, I do not recommend that.
    Also, use a good condensor mic and maybe some denoising software for the best reults.

    If you have any doubts, let me know. I will try to clarify according to my knowledge. Please understand I am no expert in this matter. EVerything I have written above is based on what I researched in the past few months and I even tested a few other models to find which one would be best for me like Orpheus, Dia, etc. Hope this helps someone.

    Oh cool, thanks. I'll take a look at both of those as well. I hadn't found either.

    The one that looked the best when I looked was Spark-TTS:
    https://huggingface.co/spaces/Mobvoi/Offical-Spark-TTS
    https://arxiv.org/pdf/2503.01710
    https://sparkaudio.github.io/spark-tts/

    Others I found that didn't seem to do cloning of your own voice were:
    https://github.com/rhasspy/piper
    https://github.com/WhisperSpeech/WhisperSpeech
    https://www.reddit.com/r/LocalLLaMA/comments/1f0awd6/best_local_open_source_texttospeech_and/
    https://github.com/coqui-ai/TTS
    https://mycroft-ai.gitbook.io/docs/mycroft-technologies/mimic-tts
    https://github.com/myshell-ai/OpenVoice
    https://www.resemble.ai/open-source-voice-cloning-multiple-languages/
    https://github.com/yantze/vim-tts
    https://github.com/myshell-ai/MeloTTS
    https://github.com/RVC-Boss/GPT-SoVITS

    Of those, coqui TTS seems to promise voice cloning, but nothing to indicate it's actually possible. Also looks like the open source effort has been abandoned.

  • SaragoldfarbSaragoldfarb Member, Megathread Squad

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    here's my girl Yvonne

    Oh my God! Am I the only one who feels, the actresses from 90s and early 2000s were mostly much more beautiful than the current ones (mostly artificial). Or, maybe it's just the generation gap.

    well, i generally like women that were born a few years within my year (before of after), and Ivonne is perfect. She still very attractive..

    But i know what you saying.. take at least this chick from The Boys - Erin Moriarty.. she insists she did nothing to her face and that she just aged, grew up..

    before

    after

    Before, way better lookin.

    I think it's mostly similar..not too much changes thank God.

    Too much for me

    Yah, I believe some people would find that too much. It's very subjective.

    It is. Good think though. If we all thought alike, no fun in that!

  • SaragoldfarbSaragoldfarb Member, Megathread Squad

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    @c1t1zen said: I'm really wishing RackNerd had a dedicated box with GPU for setting up an LLM and API.

    Won't that be expensive?

    Yeah, That would be more than I could afford but a man can dream.

    If you have a PC at home, you could always use that!
    Or use CPU only processing! :neutral:

    I have personally been using CPU only for training a TTS model, and it isn't as slow as I'd imagined but having watched videos of people doing it with GPUs and the speed at which they complete, I am convinced GPU is much better. Moreover, there are processed which would even deny processing without a GPU

    Do you want to share any info on that? It's something I'd like to look at myself, but training a model on my voice.

    What information do you need? I will help. Gives me a chance to return many of you a favour, given I have learned a lot from you.

    I guess just as basic as what software you're trying and whether it's decent or not. I looked at the webpages (so just their description not actually trying it) for about a dozen open source TTS about 9 months ago. Only one actually seemed to do proper voice mimicing, and despite its claims to be open source, there wasn't actually any source code or models to download.

    I forgot about that project idea after that, but it's still something I'd like to experiment with if I find the time.

    Got it. Once this marathon has slowed down, I will do a long post about my findings and tag you, alright?

    Nice!

    I am working on it side-by-side.

    Good, one step at the time.slow isnfastvmy man!

  • SaragoldfarbSaragoldfarb Member, Megathread Squad

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    here's my girl Yvonne

    Oh my God! Am I the only one who feels, the actresses from 90s and early 2000s were mostly much more beautiful than the current ones (mostly artificial). Or, maybe it's just the generation gap.

    well, i generally like women that were born a few years within my year (before of after), and Ivonne is perfect. She still very attractive..

    But i know what you saying.. take at least this chick from The Boys - Erin Moriarty.. she insists she did nothing to her face and that she just aged, grew up..

    before

    after

    Oh, I loved her in The Boys as well. As for her claims, that has become pretty common in Hollywood and pretty much every movie industry where they just don't wanna reveal what kinda procedures they have had done. So, I would take their claims with a pinch of salt.
    I am still waiting for the last season. In the meantime wanted to start Gen V, but, don't get the time. I usually have time to watch it during lunch or dinner, but, then, Gen v isn't something you can watch with the family.

    My kind then. Added to shortlist

    What's a shortlist in this context?

    Gen V

    Oh yah, I believe, it's a direct spin off of The Boys.

    Must be good then.

  • SaragoldfarbSaragoldfarb Member, Megathread Squad

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    some do improve their looks tho..

    like Michelle Keegan (from Brassic)

    and look at her now

    I agree.

    Definitely a glowup

    Very much so!

    But, did she even need that?

    Nah, she should just have taken it easy on the makeup.

  • SaragoldfarbSaragoldfarb Member, Megathread Squad

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    although Michelle never denied her plastic stuff.

    Which one?

    The one just above I believe

    Cheerios! Will take another quick peek.

    Maybe come t the future instead. :lol:

    Maybe some day. Future will tell.

  • SaragoldfarbSaragoldfarb Member, Megathread Squad

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    963 is reverse 69 with butt..

    All multiples of 3 as well. Yah, I have taken an interest in math :lol:

    also any combo of the three digits is divisible by 3.. any sum too..

    Also A+ for you :)

    Can I have an exclusive a+? :lol:

    No, that one is reserved for my rat bruthah

    Understandable yet again :(

    Ink kw, its not personal mate.

  • ralfralf Member

    @Saragoldfarb said:

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    963 is reverse 69 with butt..

    All multiples of 3 as well. Yah, I have taken an interest in math :lol:

    also any combo of the three digits is divisible by 3.. any sum too..

    Also A+ for you :)

    Can I have an exclusive a+? :lol:

    No, that one is reserved for my rat bruthah

    Understandable yet again :(

    Ink kw, its not personal mate.

    :'(

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