Mar 17
How's your week going?
I just decided to try my hand at coding last week and today I just finished homegrowing an ethical text-to-speech voice model from scratch and I finally got an output that sounds somewhat decent.
Now I'm making my own audiobooks because it helps with my audio processing and I can consume more literature :>
#5ider Speaks#It Came from Hadal Forest#I might upload a couple chapters from the novel I'm writing later... if I feel particularly froggy 🤭#piper#powershell#All jokes aside I'm sure I have so much more to learn than what I have even scratched the surface and my output is far from ideal#but I honestly would say it's comparable with a lot of actual vocal models on the market.#I have multiple voices too#male and female. different accents. multiple registers.#I can't figure out how to intone emotion and stress but I think that might just be endemic to a logic-based neural system#But I love my freakshow amalgam narration surrogate :> missing phonemes and all 😭#computer science#ethical ai#machine learning#beginner programming#Literature#Text-to-Speech#accessibility#disabilities#I'm just in awe of how quickly I took to this medium like a fish to water. Art is pain all my skills have been hard-fought until now#Actual programmers don't flame me I come in peace#You all are wizards and I'm just opening my first grimoire#being like wow THAT'S what mana looks like!#I feel like I'm cheating somehow like I don't deserve having something this good emerge after under a week of sleepless nights and sweat#Stolen Valor
