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What I love about OpenClaw is that I was able to send it a message on Discord with just this github URL and it started sending me voice messages using it within

by kevin42 6mo ago

What I love about OpenClaw is that I was able to send it a message on Discord with just this github URL and it started sending me voice messages using it within a few minutes. It also gave me a bunch of different benchmarks and sample audio. I'm impressed with the quality given the size. I don't love the voices, but it's not bad. Running on an intel 9700 CPU, it's about 1.5x realtime using the 80M model. It wasn't any faster running on a 3080 GPU though.

rohan_joshi 6mo ago
yeah we'll add some more professional-sounding voices and also support for diy custom voices. we tried to add more anime/cartoon-ish voices to showcase the expressivity. Regarding running on the 3080 gpu, can you share more details on github issues, discord or email? it should be blazing fast on that. i'll add an example to run the model on gpu too.
- nine_k 6mo ago
  I wonder if it's possible to guide the intonation in any way.
nsnzjznzbx 6mo ago
Oh that is a good use case. Don't connect to email and all that insecure stuff. But as a sandbox for "try this out and deploy a demo". Got me thinking!
Aerroon 6mo ago
I'm jealous. It took me far longer and much more frustration to get it to run. Had to get the right Python version and make sure it didn't break anything with the previous Python version. A friend suggested using Docker, so I started down that path until I realized I'd probably have to set the whole thing up there myself. Eventually got it to run and I think I didn't break anything else. I hate Python so much.
- RobertoG 6mo ago
  why you don't use some kind of environment, Conda or something like that?
  - sysworld 6mo ago
    Even the built in venv would've solved most of his issues too. But I agree with him in that Python documentation could be better. Or have a more unified system in place. I feel like every other how to doc I read on setting something Python up uses a different environment containment product.
  - Aerroon 6mo ago
    Because I need a new version of python very rarely (years go by). I don't remember all the arcane incantations to set everything up. I did eventually do that though, and I'm pretty sure I had to mess about with installing and uninstalling torch. I dread using anything made in python because of this. It's always annoying and never just works (if the version of python is incompatible, otherwise it's fine) .
    - RobertoG 6mo ago
      I don't know, I'm pretty happy with Conda. I just create a new environment and install on it. It normally works. Even if you have to install using pip it just affect the active environment. Maybe I'm only trying simple things.
  - deathanatos 6mo ago
    I used uv, which should have generated a stable environment. No dice. There's a bug in spacey. I suspect success is highly variable on macOS vs. Linux; the spacey bug is only in newer (3.14 only or later) Pythons, which Linux will have.
    - rohan_joshi 6mo ago
      thanks for pointing these errors out. we're looking into this and will help fix this.

by kevin42 6mo ago

rohan_joshi 6mo ago

yeah we'll add some more professional-sounding voices and also support for diy custom voices. we tried to add more anime/cartoon-ish voices to showcase the expressivity. Regarding running on the 3080 gpu, can you share more details on github issues, discord or email? it should be blazing fast on that. i'll add an example to run the model on gpu too.

nine_k 6mo ago
I wonder if it's possible to guide the intonation in any way.

nsnzjznzbx 6mo ago

Oh that is a good use case. Don't connect to email and all that insecure stuff. But as a sandbox for "try this out and deploy a demo". Got me thinking!

Aerroon 6mo ago

I'm jealous. It took me far longer and much more frustration to get it to run. Had to get the right Python version and make sure it didn't break anything with the previous Python version. A friend suggested using Docker, so I started down that path until I realized I'd probably have to set the whole thing up there myself. Eventually got it to run and I think I didn't break anything else. I hate Python so much.

RobertoG 6mo ago
why you don't use some kind of environment, Conda or something like that?
- sysworld 6mo ago
  Even the built in venv would've solved most of his issues too. But I agree with him in that Python documentation could be better. Or have a more unified system in place. I feel like every other how to doc I read on setting something Python up uses a different environment containment product.
- Aerroon 6mo ago
  Because I need a new version of python very rarely (years go by). I don't remember all the arcane incantations to set everything up. I did eventually do that though, and I'm pretty sure I had to mess about with installing and uninstalling torch. I dread using anything made in python because of this. It's always annoying and never just works (if the version of python is incompatible, otherwise it's fine) .
  - RobertoG 6mo ago
    I don't know, I'm pretty happy with Conda. I just create a new environment and install on it. It normally works. Even if you have to install using pip it just affect the active environment. Maybe I'm only trying simple things.
- deathanatos 6mo ago
  I used uv, which should have generated a stable environment. No dice. There's a bug in spacey. I suspect success is highly variable on macOS vs. Linux; the spacey bug is only in newer (3.14 only or later) Pythons, which Linux will have.
  - rohan_joshi 6mo ago
    thanks for pointing these errors out. we're looking into this and will help fix this.