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bchot · December 2025

@Saragoldfarb said:

@bchot said:

@Saragoldfarb said:

@bchot said:

@noob404 said:

@bchot said:
some do improve their looks tho..

like Michelle Keegan (from Brassic)

and look at her now

Don't know her though. I mean I was talking generally that, when procedures weren't very common, we had naturally beautiful actors and that procedures generally ruin beauty in the long term, imo. Nicole Kidman, being prime example, as we talked earlier.

she a Brit

She is.

no doubt..

Great band. But you know, I'm just a girl...

just a girl?

bchot · December 2025

@Saragoldfarb said:

@bchot said:
time to go get some groceries..

What ya having?

napa cabbage tonight!

bchot · December 2025

.> @Saragoldfarb said:

@bchot said:

@noob404 said:

@bchot said:

@noob404 said:

@ralf said:

@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.

Well, I would have thought that as well, but, there are still AI TTS projects that do see active development. I know you prolly already know this, but, make sure the licence for both the models and the app say they are suitable for your purpose. This is why I prefer F5-TTS cause they have a permissive licence.

are you talking about TiTS?

Farthest thing from that

TTS = Text to speech

best talk about tits.. TTS = tits to screen..

Lol, that made me chuckle.

well. you start then!

bchot · December 2025

@Saragoldfarb said:

@bchot said:

@noob404 said:

@Saragoldfarb said:

@noob404 said:

@Saragoldfarb said:

@noob404 said:

@Saragoldfarb said:

@noob404 said:

@bchot said:
but Kate Beckinsale insists she did nothing either.. very silly.. so often while trying to hide their work, it goes somehow wrong..

The right image looked a bit like if ScarJo had a procedure that went horribly wrong.

And soooo pretty on the left... Like I'm watching a mirror.

Yup, definitely an example of going under the knife gone wrong.

Word

Why don't surgeons recommend them better options. I mean, I am sure these aren't simple procedures that cost only a few hundred dollars.

There are but not in the us I guess.

I mean, I have heard South Korea is the preferred country for cosmetic procedure for many.

get in there, then get out looking like a Korean..

Let's all go undercover!

do you mean under the scalpel?

bchot · December 2025

@Saragoldfarb said:

@bchot said:

@noob404 said:

@bchot said:
roughly 1/20 chance of winning something.. i like those odds.
💜💜💜💙💙💙💚💚💚💛💛💛

How's that though? There are about 1951 unique users right now.

come on, bro. you were just pretending to like math..

@dustinc said: Mark your calendars! Tomorrow @ 8 PM PST, we will be streaming on YouTube and randomly selecting the 90 winners for the main giveaway!

I dunno... Noobs + maths go well together.

maybe you mistaking noobs for nerds? although if with racks they all good IMO.. TTS!

bchot · December 2025

@Saragoldfarb said:

@bchot said:
is about dudes back in the era of pirate radio stations, great techno, trance and house music, great vibes, hilarious situations...

British series?

yes and a very very funny one. if you into that kind of comedy. techno & house music plus bunch of weed smoking.. and doing nothing (mostly for jobs, i think)

bchot · December 2025

@Saragoldfarb said:

@bchot said:
there's also this character - Chabuddy - super amazing entrepreneur and a funny guy

Wicked name!

one of my cats named JABBA, i call her JABUDDY sometimes. thanks to that character.

bchot · December 2025

@Saragoldfarb said:

@bchot said:
for me it's time to eat
TTYL

Enjoy!

thanks! i did enjoy it.. was too short ate tho...

bchot · December 2025

page 1000 issa coming.. i wonder why @noob404 diddn't try to rally for a quicker reach to that page.. probably afraid it'll be a giveaway there, so didn't want it to happen while he asleep.. 5 more pages, 141 more posts..

bchot · December 2025

let's go page 1000

bchot · December 2025

who with me?

bchot · December 2025

not me for sure, i'll just be watching TV tho.. the cheerleader is on the table with her chest skin cut open.. she will soon awaken tho.. it's the cheerleader, she don't die easily..

bchot · December 2025

@TrK you were gonna do like 5k posts, what happened?

drunk people just do nothing

ralf · December 2025

@bchot said:

@Saragoldfarb said:

@bchot said:

@Saragoldfarb said:

@bchot said:

@noob404 said:

@bchot said:
some do improve their looks tho..

like Michelle Keegan (from Brassic)

and look at her now

Don't know her though. I mean I was talking generally that, when procedures weren't very common, we had naturally beautiful actors and that procedures generally ruin beauty in the long term, imo. Nicole Kidman, being prime example, as we talked earlier.

she a Brit

She is.

no doubt..

Great band. But you know, I'm just a girl...

just a girl?

ralf · December 2025

@bchot said:

@Saragoldfarb said:

@bchot said:
there's also this character - Chabuddy - super amazing entrepreneur and a funny guy

Wicked name!

one of my cats named JABBA, i call her JABUDDY sometimes. thanks to that character.

I hope you have a cathouse you call DAHUT

ralf · December 2025

@bchot said:
page 1000 issa coming.. i wonder why @noob404 diddn't try to rally for a quicker reach to that page.. probably afraid it'll be a giveaway there, so didn't want it to happen while he asleep.. 5 more pages, 141 more posts..

He's too n008

ralf · December 2025

@bchot said:
not me for sure, i'll just be watching TV tho.. the cheerleader is on the table with her chest skin cut open.. she will soon awaken tho.. it's the cheerleader, she don't die easily..

oh heroes? i briefly got excited then...

Saragoldfarb · December 2025

@ralf said:

@Saragoldfarb said:

@ralf said:

@Saragoldfarb said:

@ralf said:

@Saragoldfarb said:

@ralf said:

@Saragoldfarb said:

@ralf said:

@Saragoldfarb said:
Schools out. Picking up the kid. See ya!

Missing you already!

Miss you too. Still recovering from out date a while ago. Mind if I share with the guys!

Go for it! Just leave out the part with the Roquefort...

Inwill... I promise...Will put it on Imgur., you won't see

Just don't let noob see it or it wil warp his fragile little mind

Too late.

Oh that picture I can't see?

That one.i'll post a totally NSFW one later in a spoiler for your.

I just googled a bit and found a workaround. Prefix imgur URLs with a proxy e.g.

I mean it's OK. Glad you got the shot with you standing that side of me so that you can't see the massive cheese stain on my left leg.

Damn... So now you can also see the nudes I sent you?

Saragoldfarb · December 2025

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@Saragoldfarb said:

@ralf said:

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Dudes, I won credit!

What? How?

Not on this thread, another one.... 25 us dollars my man!

I can't find it. I only did 3 threads this year. This one, hosthatch and the megathread.

I did them all.

Haha, that's commitment. I didn't even go to page 2 of the index until the Tuesday or Wednesday after BF. The only thing I wanted to buy was another HH and then when I saw they had servers in Korea now, I had to get one so I can flog some fake cosmetic surgery drugs.

What? HH has Korea? Damn.... Gonna watch them on Christmas! I mean, got insanely weird locations but Korea is definitely on my want list!

Saragoldfarb · December 2025

@bchot said:

@Saragoldfarb said:

@bchot said:

@Saragoldfarb said:

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

Ahw... No 969 anymore now

don't sleep on it..

I won't.

you did tho

Oops... Oh no... You got me. Please dont tell noob.

Saragoldfarb · December 2025

@bchot said:

@Saragoldfarb said:

@bchot said:

@Saragoldfarb said:

@bchot said:

@noob404 said:

@bchot said:
some do improve their looks tho..

like Michelle Keegan (from Brassic)

and look at her now

Don't know her though. I mean I was talking generally that, when procedures weren't very common, we had naturally beautiful actors and that procedures generally ruin beauty in the long term, imo. Nicole Kidman, being prime example, as we talked earlier.

she a Brit

She is.

no doubt..

Great band. But you know, I'm just a girl...

just a girl?

No doubt.

Saragoldfarb · December 2025

@bchot said:

@Saragoldfarb said:

@bchot said:
time to go get some groceries..

What ya having?

napa cabbage tonight!

Aight. Need to look that up but I like cabbage depending on how it's prepared.

Saragoldfarb · December 2025

@bchot said:
.> @Saragoldfarb said:

@bchot said:

@noob404 said:

@bchot said:

@noob404 said:

@ralf said:

@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.

Well, I would have thought that as well, but, there are still AI TTS projects that do see active development. I know you prolly already know this, but, make sure the licence for both the models and the app say they are suitable for your purpose. This is why I prefer F5-TTS cause they have a permissive licence.

are you talking about TiTS?

Farthest thing from that

TTS = Text to speech

best talk about tits.. TTS = tits to screen..

Lol, that made me chuckle.

well. you start then!

Dunno if everyone would appreciate. I mean, personally all up for it.

Saragoldfarb · December 2025

@bchot said:

@Saragoldfarb said:

@bchot said:

@noob404 said:

@Saragoldfarb said:

@noob404 said:

@Saragoldfarb said:

@noob404 said:

@Saragoldfarb said:

@noob404 said:

@bchot said:
but Kate Beckinsale insists she did nothing either.. very silly.. so often while trying to hide their work, it goes somehow wrong..

The right image looked a bit like if ScarJo had a procedure that went horribly wrong.

And soooo pretty on the left... Like I'm watching a mirror.

Yup, definitely an example of going under the knife gone wrong.

Word

Why don't surgeons recommend them better options. I mean, I am sure these aren't simple procedures that cost only a few hundred dollars.

There are but not in the us I guess.

I mean, I have heard South Korea is the preferred country for cosmetic procedure for many.

get in there, then get out looking like a Korean..

Let's all go undercover!

do you mean under the scalpel?

Yeah, maybe like bit trumpy or Melania.

Saragoldfarb · December 2025

@bchot said:

@Saragoldfarb said:

@bchot said:

@noob404 said:

@bchot said:
roughly 1/20 chance of winning something.. i like those odds.
💜💜💜💙💙💙💚💚💚💛💛💛

How's that though? There are about 1951 unique users right now.

come on, bro. you were just pretending to like math..

@dustinc said: Mark your calendars! Tomorrow @ 8 PM PST, we will be streaming on YouTube and randomly selecting the 90 winners for the main giveaway!

I dunno... Noobs + maths go well together.

maybe you mistaking noobs for nerds? although if with racks they all good IMO.. TTS!

Lok, good one, nah here maybe noobs = nerds.

Saragoldfarb · December 2025

@bchot said:

@Saragoldfarb said:

@bchot said:
is about dudes back in the era of pirate radio stations, great techno, trance and house music, great vibes, hilarious situations...

British series?

yes and a very very funny one. if you into that kind of comedy. techno & house music plus bunch of weed smoking.. and doing nothing (mostly for jobs, i think)

Not my kind of music but I definitely think I will appreciate the series. Just a sucker for proper Brit comedy.

Saragoldfarb · December 2025

@bchot said:

@Saragoldfarb said:

@bchot said:
there's also this character - Chabuddy - super amazing entrepreneur and a funny guy

Wicked name!

one of my cats named JABBA, i call her JABUDDY sometimes. thanks to that character.

Jabba is a good name for a cat. I mean, its creative. Mine has a boring name. But you know, it was a rescue, didnt want to rename it.

Saragoldfarb · December 2025

@bchot said:

@Saragoldfarb said:

@bchot said:
for me it's time to eat
TTYL

Enjoy!

thanks! i did enjoy it.. was too short ate tho...

That's good sometimes. I like a proper dinner when I have time, having some drink, somber conversay and just a couple of dishes.

Too much going on usually though.

Saragoldfarb · December 2025

@bchot said:
page 1000 issa coming.. i wonder why @noob404 diddn't try to rally for a quicker reach to that page.. probably afraid it'll be a giveaway there, so didn't want it to happen while he asleep.. 5 more pages, 141 more posts..

Aight, let's do it? You still around?

Saragoldfarb · December 2025

@bchot said:

let's go page 1000

Go fo go!

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