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noob404 · December 2025

@Saragoldfarb said:

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Aight. Powernap time. I'll be on the couch.

Come back refreshed as always.

Sooooo refreshed!

Powernap did that? I wonder why it doesn't t ever work for me

noob404 · December 2025

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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!

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

I know it was baaaaad!

But, was that?

noob404 · December 2025

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Thank God that I keep clearing my notifications from time to time. Else, I would end up with something like Ralf had.

I don't think that disease spreads just by conversation. You're (probably) fine.

How man... Freaking .... Clever ... Joke. I almost came.

Me as well. I mean I thought it was clever no the last aprt

noob404 · December 2025

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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!

Please feel free to share here. No judgement zoem for trh most part.

noob404 · December 2025

@Saragoldfarb said:
?

Yes exactly. Go ahead

noob404 · December 2025

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So I'm just wrapping up a few things before bed and I noticed

https://youtube.com/watch?v=RIdOHTCVS9c

For me, it's 05:00 when it goes live lmao

Around 9AM Dec 13 for me

Nice

I am guessing you won't be able to attend it live then. It was around the same time the chef arrived this year as well

Nope. I won't be watching it live

Yah, would be too early for you given its a weekday

Yeah. And even if it would be during the weekend, I would still not watch it live. Way too early for me

Hangovers suck indeed

Th poor guy has an unpaid internship to attend almost everyday, unlike your well-paid Carolyn

Unpaid? That's like slavery!

yes it is

Straight up!; screw em, run off with some stationary!

Back in school, I used to mes sup stationery and stationary a lot. Ah good old days

bchot · December 2025

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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.

i am sure you've eaten it if you have ever ordered chinese food. it's big white pieces that uninitiated consider sweet onions (in chinese food).

noob404 · December 2025

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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...

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

years later they did a season of it where i really hoped that kid Mika (or whatever it's spelled) that worked technology would really be big, but don't remember anything..

I see... Might have to start allover again... Don't think I have the time for that.

There are series and Tv Shows I absolutely loved at some point I don't remember anything about.

noob404 · December 2025

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although Michelle never denied her plastic stuff.

Which one?

exactly!!

Aight, got it now. Silly me. What was I thinking!

Yah, what were you thinking though?

bchot · December 2025

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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.

that's a loopty loop right there..

noob404 · December 2025

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

Dude... This makes me feel sad

was cute, became dangerous..

Eliminating danger is always good.

Is it though..having some danger is fun

noob404 · December 2025

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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...

She was in a band?

noob404 · December 2025

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time to go get some groceries..

What ya having?

Zucchini and veggies prolly. He does have good amount of veggies in his diet

bchot · December 2025

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@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.

don't be worried about everybody, just goferit...

noob404 · December 2025

Ok someone's online. Thank God.

bchot · December 2025

on my block there's a Chinese place (actually Michelin guide mentioned, if it tells you anything, doesn't have a star though).. well it's called GO4FOOD, which i call GOPHER FOOD..

bchot · December 2025

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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.

@noob404 she being secretive bro.

noob404 · December 2025

@bchot said:
on my block there's a Chinese place (actually Michelin guide mentioned, if it tells you anything, doesn't have a star though).. well it's called GO4FOOD, which i call GOPHER FOOD.. =

I thought it was a coupon for discount at the place. Worth a try regardless

noob404 · December 2025

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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.

@noob404 she being secretive bro.

What was that about? Extremely cryptic for sure

bchot · December 2025

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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.

by the comedy it's like [British] Office just in a different "field" of life..

noob404 · December 2025

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

Not too Shabby!

Man did the math

noob404 · December 2025

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

Here is the YouTube URL:

Waiting eagerly for the live stream.

That makes two of us!

Many of us infact

bchot · December 2025

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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.

why you call your cat "it"? for me all cats are him and her...

noob404 · December 2025

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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...

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?

Partiall, yes.

Too bad.

You mean not too bad right?

bchot · December 2025

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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?

nah.. i just riled up a little. hyped it up.. i really don't care for it..

noob404 · December 2025

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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.

Alright, Sara. See you soon then maybe for a live chat.

Soon enough. Where noob at?

Noob was fast asleep.

noob404 · December 2025

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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

Sure do.

Correction, it's a short distance relation

Depends on how big it is.

It's very short though..the distance between my bed and laptop.

bchot · December 2025

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who with me?

I am!

more like you alone..

noob404 · December 2025

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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.

Hopefully, very soon.

Very very soon. See what I did there? I doubled it.

Yah, that kinda doubling works for me as well.

noob404 · December 2025

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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.

He's already around here, I guess.

Hype!

Yes, he brings the hype

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