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• Post #1707630

  I want to put this out there for those who need to hear it, and as a reminder for myself. You don't need to impress people to be a good friend. You need to just be, and that is good enough.

• Post #1677037

  I swear people on social media have gotten angrier to the point that they sound like insolent children. You know you don't have to bastardize a word with "slop" or "flop" when you're angry about something. Where the hell did the adults go?

• Post #1126010

  You know what? I think I'm starting to like building text lexers over building TTS systems in general. Don't get me wrong, designing voices are cool, but designing text parsers using tools like Flex or re2c is something else. It's like designing your own text compiler.

• Post #1044045

  I got quick question for people who care to read this post. I'm thinking about doing some job hunting, and I want to know what good sites to start off with. I'm looking for something programming related.

• Post #1036435

  In Dolphin's Orpheus synthesizer, the British version of Synthetic Dave sounds awfully familiar.

• Post #1036434

  Example of Chatterbox TTS AI when Synthetic Dave with slightly altered settings is used is a voice cloning reference.

• Post #1036433

  Words of wisdom to programmers. Don't be afraid of being messy and redundant with your code when you want to try something out. Also, more often than not, you'll discover something by accident like I did tonight.

• Post #1036432

  I'm starting to realize how much energy was being sucked out of me working a hospitality job. I took the week off this week, and I finally have the energy to do things I've been putting off for at least a year. Also better self-care is now possible when it wasn't before.

• Post #979503

  Little did I know that the US survey foot was deprecated beginning in 2023. So no more foot/feet measurements. It's like how both Pluto and the U.S. penny all got decommissioned. It's weird.

• Post #979502

  @datajake1999 hey jake. is there a reason why the orpheus nvda driver needs a hook dll? I'm guessing it's just to capture sound right?

• Post #979500

  Starting to realize a good chunk of Mastodon communities are echo chambers themselves. I mean of course right since Mastodon is also a social media platform albeit a decentralized one.

• Post #979499

  After some thinking today, I'm beginning to realize how incredibly lucky I was to not fall into a life of substance abuse like my family tree has. After some schadenfreude regarding my ex step dad being charged for dealing meth some years ago, I feel a little of sadness in how life was back then and how I was treated. I'm glad these people are out of my life. However, I currently still live in the area where many of those bad memories occurred. I want to move out of the state f...

• Post #979497

  Today was a pretty lousy day at work. Employers too cheap to hire more workers to prevent preventable conflicts. The hell did they expect.

• Post #979496

  I might have found a file from a PocketPC program that uses a variant of AcuVoice. Where you at @datajake and @MutedTrampet https://discmaster.textfiles.com/browse/6078/Best%20of%20Everything%20-%20Pocket%20PC%20Magazine%20(PocketPCMag)(2003).BIN/FinWinProdCD/dl/VoiceCentral.exe/Disk1/data1.cab/UK_Roger

• Post #979495

  The System is a highly underrated 80s band, and so is this song. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h6KRMcvEaVI

• Post #979493

  After some thinking, there is absolutely no way a modern day TTS system would be able to run smoothly on a 486 computer.

• Post #815551

  That sinking feeling when an estranged mom doesn't apologize to his own son for her actions, and then for me as that son to realize she used to defend an ex step-dad who ended up being a meth head. It makes the situation worse somehow. I can't wait to leave Wisconsin one day. I got nothing here.

• Post #815550

  I just had a moment today where a guy approached me before leaving work, and he was giving me vibes that felt really off. I don't know what his deal is.

• Post #815549

  Advice to freelancers who get job offer emails. If they are asking for a partnership and don't have an online portfolio, RUN!

• Post #815548

  I was today years old when I learned that not all measurement units had unicode equivalents. That would mean a modern text to speech engine that can disambiguate all measurement types would not be possible.

• Post #751725

  This song has been on repeat for days. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-4aNotaYATc

• Post #751723

  Decided to do some searching on my state's circuit court website. I was surprised to see my ex-stepdad facing charges for meth possession and bail jumping since 2019. Today I'm a very happy man. I feel vindicated based on how he treated me a long time ago when he gave my mom I've been estranged from my phone number without asking me. Pay back is a bitch.

• Post #718811

  All languages for BeSTspeech have been found (with Arabic not working for some reason). Here's a demo of them in action.

• Post #689900

  Quick demo of Black Ice Software's SpeakEasy TTS synthesizer from 1999.

• Post #689899

  Here's what the raw data of the unit selection db file for SpeakEasy sounds like. It gives you a good idea on how unit selection synthesis works.

• Post #616084

  The phoneme dictionary for BeSTspeech has been found in the DLL. The phonemes are simply stored as indexes pointing to the phoneme inventory table within array entries for such words like "one" "two" "three" and so on. This is looking promising.

• Post #616083

  here are a couple words from the phoneme dictionary in BeSTspeech: .data:100964B4 unk_100964B4 db 0Ch ; jh .data:100964B5 db 28h ; O .data:100964B6 db 36h ; ' .data:100964B7 db 12h ; r .data:100964B8 db 0Ch ; jh .data:100964B9 db 0h ; .data:100964BA db 0h ; .data:100964BB db 0h ; .data:100964BC unk_100964BC db 1h ; f .data:100964BD...

• Post #600694

  Someone confused my github profile as a business yesterday. Had a freelancer send me an email introducing himself. I assumed he was looking for a freelance gig.

• Post #600693

  So turns out BeSTspeech has a couple feature translation tables for ASCII. One of them being a bit masked letter class feature. That class table determines whether an ASCII symbol is a vowel, letter, number, or punctuation.

• Post #600692

  This was quite amusing. BeSTspeech would work well as a wolf simulator.