synesthesiam

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by synesthesiam 4mo ago
On my list to check out tomorrow :D
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by synesthesiam 2y ago
As the sibling comment mentions, the next version of Piper will no longer use espeak-ng to avoid potential GPL licensing issues.
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by synesthesiam 3y ago
Yes, it is possible by installing the Wyoming Satellite software on the Mark II. All the pieces are there, it's just missing some easy-to-install firmware. Source: I worked at Mycroft on the Mark II and am now the voice guy for Nabu Ca
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by synesthesiam 3y ago
Look into training a Dreambooth model. Huggingface has a guide for this.
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by synesthesiam 3y ago
You may want to try Piper for this case (RPi 4): https://github.com/rhasspy/piper
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by synesthesiam 3y ago
Thank you for the kind words, @follower! I'm the author of Piper; it is a successor to Larynx (originally named Larynx 2). Piper uses the same underlying model as Mimic 3, which I developed before joining Mycroft. However, Piper uses a
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by synesthesiam 3y ago
Neon AI and OVOS are taking over development of Mycroft Core and the Mark II: https://www.reddit.com/r/Mycroftai/comments/1212h87/neon_ai_...
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by synesthesiam 3y ago
Coauthor of the blog post here. You're right, I said it on the live stream we had today but forgot to mention it in the blog post: the i5 is from a Lenovo ThinkCentre M72e. They're available refurbished for less than the cost of a
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by synesthesiam 3y ago
I used to work for Mycroft, so I'm hoping to eventually create an image that's compatible with Home Assistant pipelines. For now, though, you may want to check out OVOS: https://openvoiceos.com/
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by synesthesiam 3y ago
Home Assistant and Rhasspy 3 will be able to share voice services thanks to the shared Wyoming protocol. Rhasspy 3 will have more options, including lots of experimental services.
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by synesthesiam 3y ago
Mark I or Mark II?
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by synesthesiam 4y ago
I'm working right now on adding voice control to Home Assistant: https://www.home-assistant.io/blog/2022/12/20/year-of-voice/ Our goal is local voice control of your devices in your native lang
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by synesthesiam 4y ago
Have you tried whisper-cpp? https://github.com/ggerganov/whisper.cpp/tree/master/example...
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by synesthesiam 4y ago
This has always been a struggle. Rhasspy can gather lists of songs, artists, etc. but it will have to guess many of their pronunciations. And it seems artist/band names often purposely thwart conventional pronunciation rules :P
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by synesthesiam 4y ago
They share a lot of the same pieces, but voice2json is meant to work in Unix-style pipelines. Rhasspy has MQTT/HTTP/Websocket APIs instead.
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by synesthesiam 4y ago
Sorry about that. I'm going to be working more closely with native German speakers to get it right!
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by synesthesiam 4y ago
This was the reason I designed voice2json [1] :) [1] https://voice2json.org/
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by synesthesiam 4y ago
You're welcome! What sort of hardware did you settle on for the satellites?
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by synesthesiam 4y ago
Rhasspy author here, thanks for posting! Just wanted to mention that I've joined Nabu Casa (creators of Home Assistant) this month, so Rhasspy will be receiving updates again and be a major part of Home Assistant's "Year of V
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by synesthesiam 4y ago
Is there a good guide for writing Rust-like C++, e.g. using stuff in the recent standards to avoid the many footguns?
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by synesthesiam 4y ago
The amount of data depends on if there's a voice for the language already. If so, about 2 hours of data is usually good enough. Otherwise, 10-20 hours usually does it.
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by synesthesiam 4y ago
The voices are under a CC-BY-SA license, so you can generate all the audio you want (offline), even for commercial usage.
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by synesthesiam 4y ago
Hi all, author here. Besides the tech of Mimic 3 itself, I'm interested in training voices in as many (human) languages as possible. All it takes is one person willing to donate a dataset for everyone to benefit! ...well, that and a bu
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by synesthesiam 4y ago
I believe I fixed the bean bug ;)
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by synesthesiam 4y ago
Python is only really the glue here. The models are trained in PyTorch and exported to Microsoft's Onnx runtime (C++). So the bulk of the inference CPU cycles are outside Python.
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by synesthesiam 4y ago
Author of Mimic 3 here. Thanks! Hoping to release the first version this month :)
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by synesthesiam 4y ago
Sure. I joined the company last year, and Joshua has mainly been busy appearing in court to fight the patent troll. With that fight effectively over, Joshua and Kris are focusing on something new (not sure what specifically). Michael Lewis
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by synesthesiam 4y ago
It's a reference to the sentient computer from: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Moon_Is_a_Harsh_Mistress
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by synesthesiam 4y ago
I'd normally agree, but Joshua (the founder) has been minimally involved for years outside of the patent lawsuits. With that mostly resolved (in Mycroft's favor), he's moving on to the next thing.
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by synesthesiam 4y ago
Joshua Montgomery founded Mycroft AI, but Michael Lewis has been running the company for 2 years as CEO. Joshua recently "resigned", though his day to day involvement has been minimal.

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