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  • noob404noob404 Member

    @Saragoldfarb said:

    @TrK said:

    @allthemtings said:

    @noob404 said:

    @allthemtings said:

    @noob404 said:

    @allthemtings said:
    @noob404 POV

    Sorry, dude. Has been the trend this year. Welcome to the thread

    As an avid shitposter myself i respect the grind

    What where though? You mean the megathread? Let me know if myself services are needed elsewhere as well.

    I am just kidding, going all out this time for the gaming pc and also because this is gonna be my last participation for the social butterfly prolly

    Yup on the megathreads, I'm not on your level though

    No one is...

    Only one noob.

    Who is a pro at one thing

  • noob404noob404 Member

    @Saragoldfarb said:

    @noob404 said:

    @BasToTheMax said:
    gonna stream soon

    Oh ok good luck, dude.

    Was it good?

    Only he can tell. Hope he's here soon. Will be greeted to a load of notifications.

  • noob404noob404 Member

    @Saragoldfarb said:

    @noob404 said:

    @TrK said:

    @allthemtings said:

    @noob404 said:

    @allthemtings said:

    @noob404 said:

    @allthemtings said:
    @noob404 POV

    Sorry, dude. Has been the trend this year. Welcome to the thread

    As an avid shitposter myself i respect the grind

    What where though? You mean the megathread? Let me know if myself services are needed elsewhere as well.

    I am just kidding, going all out this time for the gaming pc and also because this is gonna be my last participation for the social butterfly prolly

    Yup on the megathreads, I'm not on your level though

    No one is...

    You'll miss me when I am gone :(

    404 right now... Not feeling any abandonment issues yet.

    I am though.

  • noob404noob404 Member

    @Saragoldfarb said:

    @noob404 said:

    @allthemtings said:

    @TrK said:

    @allthemtings said:

    @noob404 said:

    @allthemtings said:

    @noob404 said:

    @allthemtings said:
    @noob404 POV

    Sorry, dude. Has been the trend this year. Welcome to the thread

    As an avid shitposter myself i respect the grind

    What where though? You mean the megathread? Let me know if myself services are needed elsewhere as well.

    I am just kidding, going all out this time for the gaming pc and also because this is gonna be my last participation for the social butterfly prolly

    Yup on the megathreads, I'm not on your level though

    No one is...

    Where have I seen this guy?

    Pornhub?

    Royalhub, it seems. COuldn't remember his name

  • noob404noob404 Member

    @Saragoldfarb said:

    @TrK said:

    @noob404 said:

    @TrK said:

    @allthemtings said:

    @noob404 said:

    @allthemtings said:

    @noob404 said:

    @allthemtings said:
    @noob404 POV

    Sorry, dude. Has been the trend this year. Welcome to the thread

    As an avid shitposter myself i respect the grind

    What where though? You mean the megathread? Let me know if myself services are needed elsewhere as well.

    I am just kidding, going all out this time for the gaming pc and also because this is gonna be my last participation for the social butterfly prolly

    Yup on the megathreads, I'm not on your level though

    No one is...

    You'll miss me when I am gone :(

    That was meant as a complement.....

    Didn't work I guess..

    Did work. I will take complement wrapped in literally anything.

  • noob404noob404 Member

    @Saragoldfarb said:

    @TrK said:

    @noob404 said:

    @allthemtings said:

    @TrK said:

    @allthemtings said:

    @noob404 said:

    @allthemtings said:

    @noob404 said:

    @allthemtings said:
    @noob404 POV

    Sorry, dude. Has been the trend this year. Welcome to the thread

    As an avid shitposter myself i respect the grind

    What where though? You mean the megathread? Let me know if myself services are needed elsewhere as well.

    I am just kidding, going all out this time for the gaming pc and also because this is gonna be my last participation for the social butterfly prolly

    Yup on the megathreads, I'm not on your level though

    No one is...

    Where have I seen this guy?

    On the throne?

    Sitting on it.

    Oh yes. Ofcourse, where else?

  • noob404noob404 Member

    @Saragoldfarb said:

    @noob404 said:

    @TrK said:

    @noob404 said:

    @TrK said:

    @allthemtings said:

    @noob404 said:

    @allthemtings said:

    @noob404 said:

    @allthemtings said:
    @noob404 POV

    Sorry, dude. Has been the trend this year. Welcome to the thread

    As an avid shitposter myself i respect the grind

    What where though? You mean the megathread? Let me know if myself services are needed elsewhere as well.

    I am just kidding, going all out this time for the gaming pc and also because this is gonna be my last participation for the social butterfly prolly

    Yup on the megathreads, I'm not on your level though

    No one is...

    You'll miss me when I am gone :(

    That was meant as a complement.....

    I know, bro. Was just kidding. But, yeah, I will prolly most prolly retire from hyperactive participation with this thread.

    Noooo9o9oo

    Yesssssss!! Health > Gaming PC!

  • noob404noob404 Member

    @Saragoldfarb said:

    @TrK said:

    @noob404 said:

    @TrK said:

    @noob404 said:

    @TrK said:

    @allthemtings said:

    @noob404 said:

    @allthemtings said:

    @noob404 said:

    @allthemtings said:
    @noob404 POV

    Sorry, dude. Has been the trend this year. Welcome to the thread

    As an avid shitposter myself i respect the grind

    What where though? You mean the megathread? Let me know if myself services are needed elsewhere as well.

    I am just kidding, going all out this time for the gaming pc and also because this is gonna be my last participation for the social butterfly prolly

    Yup on the megathreads, I'm not on your level though

    No one is...

    You'll miss me when I am gone :(

    That was meant as a complement.....

    I know, bro. Was just kidding. But, yeah, I will prolly most prolly retire from hyperactive participation with this thread.

    Any specific reason?

    Sleep.

    YOu know me well at this point, sara.

  • noob404noob404 Member

    @Saragoldfarb said:

    @noob404 said:

    @TrK said:

    @noob404 said:

    @allthemtings said:

    @TrK said:

    @allthemtings said:

    @noob404 said:

    @allthemtings said:

    @noob404 said:

    @allthemtings said:
    @noob404 POV

    Sorry, dude. Has been the trend this year. Welcome to the thread

    As an avid shitposter myself i respect the grind

    What where though? You mean the megathread? Let me know if myself services are needed elsewhere as well.

    I am just kidding, going all out this time for the gaming pc and also because this is gonna be my last participation for the social butterfly prolly

    Yup on the megathreads, I'm not on your level though

    No one is...

    Where have I seen this guy?

    On the throne?

    Yah, that smirk definitely is royal British family if I am not wrong. But, forget his name.

    @ralf 's Master.

    Not sure if he listens to them though.

  • noob404noob404 Member

    @Saragoldfarb said:

    @TrK said:

    @noob404 said:

    @TrK said:

    @noob404 said:

    @allthemtings said:

    @TrK said:

    @allthemtings said:

    @noob404 said:

    @allthemtings said:

    @noob404 said:

    @allthemtings said:
    @noob404 POV

    Sorry, dude. Has been the trend this year. Welcome to the thread

    As an avid shitposter myself i respect the grind

    What where though? You mean the megathread? Let me know if myself services are needed elsewhere as well.

    I am just kidding, going all out this time for the gaming pc and also because this is gonna be my last participation for the social butterfly prolly

    Yup on the megathreads, I'm not on your level though

    No one is...

    Where have I seen this guy?

    On the throne?

    Yah, that smirk definitely is royal British family if I am not wrong. But, forget his name.

    Charles the Third?

    His majesty

    That's just top cringe material to me.

  • noob404noob404 Member

    @Saragoldfarb said:

    @noob404 said:

    @TrK said:

    @noob404 said:

    @TrK said:

    @noob404 said:

    @TrK said:

    @allthemtings said:

    @noob404 said:

    @allthemtings said:

    @noob404 said:

    @allthemtings said:
    @noob404 POV

    Sorry, dude. Has been the trend this year. Welcome to the thread

    As an avid shitposter myself i respect the grind

    What where though? You mean the megathread? Let me know if myself services are needed elsewhere as well.

    I am just kidding, going all out this time for the gaming pc and also because this is gonna be my last participation for the social butterfly prolly

    Yup on the megathreads, I'm not on your level though

    No one is...

    You'll miss me when I am gone :(

    That was meant as a complement.....

    I know, bro. Was just kidding. But, yeah, I will prolly most prolly retire from hyperactive participation with this thread.

    Any specific reason?

    The health concern and time it requires. And you know me. I usually go overboard with these competitions as I am very competitive. You can't blame me cause the fate of a gaming PC I can't otherwise afford, hangs in the balance.
    This year, finally, I felt my body ageing and showing me actual signs that I should prolly slow down with avoiding lsoign sleep and everything that's gonna harm me in the long run

    Dude.. youll be fine. Take a day.

    I prolly will. But, with atleast 11 days now, have to account for rainy days as well.

  • noob404noob404 Member

    @Saragoldfarb said:

    @TrK said:
    I meant King Charles the Third!

    King Kong

    Can't say I see the similarity. Enlighten me.

  • noob404noob404 Member

    @Saragoldfarb said:

    @noob404 said:

    @TrK said:

    @noob404 said:

    @TrK said:

    @noob404 said:

    @allthemtings said:

    @TrK said:

    @allthemtings said:

    @noob404 said:

    @allthemtings said:

    @noob404 said:

    @allthemtings said:
    @noob404 POV

    Sorry, dude. Has been the trend this year. Welcome to the thread

    As an avid shitposter myself i respect the grind

    What where though? You mean the megathread? Let me know if myself services are needed elsewhere as well.

    I am just kidding, going all out this time for the gaming pc and also because this is gonna be my last participation for the social butterfly prolly

    Yup on the megathreads, I'm not on your level though

    No one is...

    Where have I seen this guy?

    On the throne?

    Yah, that smirk definitely is royal British family if I am not wrong. But, forget his name.

    Charles the Third?

    Oh yah, they all look the same to me, atleast the ones in his generation. No offence meant, but, I am not a huge fan of monarchy anywhere.

    I can relate

    Oh yes. Someone I can gree with .

  • noob404noob404 Member

    @Saragoldfarb said:

    @noob404 said:

    @TrK said:
    I meant King Charles the Third!

    Yah yah, I know :lol:
    Somehow calling someone "king" in literal sense of the word, in 21st century feels weird, if not superfluous.

    Hehe, guess so.

    I believe that strongly.

  • noob404noob404 Member

    @Saragoldfarb said:

    @noob404 said:

    @TrK said:

    @noob404 said:

    @TrK said:

    @noob404 said:

    @TrK said:

    @noob404 said:

    @TrK said:

    @allthemtings said:

    @noob404 said:

    @allthemtings said:

    @noob404 said:

    @allthemtings said:
    @noob404 POV

    Sorry, dude. Has been the trend this year. Welcome to the thread

    As an avid shitposter myself i respect the grind

    What where though? You mean the megathread? Let me know if myself services are needed elsewhere as well.

    I am just kidding, going all out this time for the gaming pc and also because this is gonna be my last participation for the social butterfly prolly

    Yup on the megathreads, I'm not on your level though

    No one is...

    You'll miss me when I am gone :(

    That was meant as a complement.....

    I know, bro. Was just kidding. But, yeah, I will prolly most prolly retire from hyperactive participation with this thread.

    Any specific reason?

    The health concern and time it requires. And you know me. I usually go overboard with these competitions as I am very competitive. You can't blame me cause the fate of a gaming PC I can't otherwise afford, hangs in the balance.
    This year, finally, I felt my body ageing and showing me actual signs that I should prolly slow down with avoiding lsoign sleep and everything that's gonna harm me in the long run

    Sounds rough, man, take care of your health.

    Will do. After 23rd maybe, I am planning to get a full body checkup done or something. It's been really long since I had one of those done.

    @dude

    Yah, it's gonna be sweet :lol: hope my blood isn;t/

  • noob404noob404 Member

    @Saragoldfarb said:

    @TrK said:

    @noob404 said:

    @TrK said:
    I meant King Charles the Third!

    Yah yah, I know :lol:
    Somehow calling someone "king" in literal sense of the word, in 21st century feels weird, if not superfluous.

    well he is a king nonetheless and holds supreme power in the britsh commonwealth.

    Not when @ralf is around.

    The king of rats!

  • noob404noob404 Member

    @Saragoldfarb said:

    @noob404 said:

    @TrK said:

    @noob404 said: Oh yah, they all look the same to me, atleast the ones in his generation. No offence meant, but, I am not a huge fan of monarchy anywhere.

    We used to be like that too, too many kings running around like kids fighting for toys and ending up destroyed from the third parties...

    Oh yes, but, we moved on from that years ago. I personally don't think there's any place for royalty or monarchy in the 21st century.
    No offence to anyone from a country with monarchy, but that's just my opinion

    We have a king. He has no power though. Kinda like the British I think?

    What about his hold on general lawmaking?

  • noob404noob404 Member

    @Saragoldfarb said:

    @bchot said:

    @BasToTheMax said:
    eh i'm back!

    yep..

    Hiya sidebitch!

    Oh, I see how that is now.

  • noob404noob404 Member

    @Saragoldfarb 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?

    Yes, all day any day!

    No, we weren't :lol:

  • noob404noob404 Member

    @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!

    To Korea? The only Korea we would have to go undercover is NK.

  • noob404noob404 Member

    @Saragoldfarb said:

    @noob404 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..

    Oh yes. Glass skin I guess it's called.

    Oh that, yeh that's a real thing. Ugly as hell.

    Well, that's well-reguarded in Korea and several other countries. All the magic of SM!

  • noob404noob404 Member

    @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.

    Yup, we do, I can concur.

  • noob404noob404 Member

    @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 :lol:

    TTS = Text to speech

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

    Lol, that made me chuckle.

    I was sure, it'd make you chuckle.

  • noob404noob404 Member

    @Saragoldfarb said:

    @noob404 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!

    Caught red handed. Pardon me. Given there are gonna be 90 winners, your math is definitely mathing!

    Booyah!

    Yah, noob's math wasn't mathing at the point. Good that bchot corrected mine.

  • noob404noob404 Member

    @Saragoldfarb said:

    @noob404 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 :lol:

    TTS = Text to speech

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

    Not on this thread hopefully. Sup? Excited about day after tomorrow's draw?
    Also got your daily bonus for today on the December giveaway?

    Why not. Tits would be an interesting topic to discuss.

    Not on this thread though, not for me. You guys continue.

  • noob404noob404 Member

    @Saragoldfarb said:

    @bchot said:
    BTW if you lookign for a crazy comedy series, i recommend this

    Like that's probably half of my office. Somehow they make it work so....

    LOL! Guessing you work with gen-z/

  • noob404noob404 Member

    @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?

    Yah, it's good from what bchot says.

  • noob404noob404 Member

    @Saragoldfarb said:

    @noob404 said:

    @bchot said:

    @noob404 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 :lol:

    TTS = Text to speech

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

    Not on this thread hopefully. Sup? Excited about day after tomorrow's draw?
    Also got your daily bonus for today on the December giveaway?

    yep, got it all sorted.. thanks.

    I almost missed getting mine today.

    Close call, thank god!

    Yah, don't want bchot to go without any competition :lol:

  • noob404noob404 Member

    @Saragoldfarb said:

    @noob404 said:

    @bchot said:
    BTW if you lookign for a crazy comedy series, i recommend this

    Isnt this British? I think I saw a few episodes on Comedy Central an year or so ago.

    Thought so too.

    Yah, didn't find it really good a few years ago. might be time for a rewatch.

  • noob404noob404 Member

    @Saragoldfarb said:

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

    Wicked name!

    Much like fluffy

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