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I think we need more neurons in the human brain than parameters in this model for speech. I wonder what it says about the human brain vs LLM efficiency.
by da-x
this is extremely encouraging for individuals/small companies being able to train pareto-frontier TTS models (specifically compute required to run vs quality of model output)
by sudb
How heavy in inference on this? The model would easily fit on many microcontroller modules, I wonder if they could run it?
by K0balt
I keep seeing tts stories here. Is it just an interesting subset of the llm world, or is there a huge use case I’m somehow missing?
by billdueber
This is impressive. I wish there were a voice clone option.
by tmaly
The inflections are weird but this doesn't sound like a robot. Not bad!
by NetOpWibby
Couple highlights:
> Complete local text-to-waveform speech synthesis under 10M parameters.
In case, like me, you hoped "complete" voice might mean both stt and tts. Not to speak poorly of it, just clarifying.
> English only, with one fixed male voice. This is not zero-shot voice cloning.
(And then a bunch of statements on limitations that I read as 'quality can be spotty but if you play with it it should be fine') But like. In <10M params I'm not judging:)
by yjftsjthsd-h
This is amazing, the quality blow my mind for such small model! I just replaced my old onnx model with yours!
here my implementation with speech dispatcher and server: https://github.com/skorotkiewicz/inflect-speechd
thanks for shearing!
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- Hacker News
- I think we need more neurons in the human brain than parameters in this model for speech. I wonder what it says about the human brain vs LLM efficiency.by da-x
- this is extremely encouraging for individuals/small companies being able to train pareto-frontier TTS models (specifically compute required to run vs quality of model output)by sudb
- How heavy in inference on this? The model would easily fit on many microcontroller modules, I wonder if they could run it?by K0balt
- I keep seeing tts stories here. Is it just an interesting subset of the llm world, or is there a huge use case I’m somehow missing?by billdueber
- This is impressive. I wish there were a voice clone option.by tmaly
- The inflections are weird but this doesn't sound like a robot. Not bad!by NetOpWibby
- Couple highlights:
> Complete local text-to-waveform speech synthesis under 10M parameters.
In case, like me, you hoped "complete" voice might mean both stt and tts. Not to speak poorly of it, just clarifying.
> English only, with one fixed male voice. This is not zero-shot voice cloning.
(And then a bunch of statements on limitations that I read as 'quality can be spotty but if you play with it it should be fine') But like. In <10M params I'm not judging:)
by yjftsjthsd-h - This is amazing, the quality blow my mind for such small model! I just replaced my old onnx model with yours!
here my implementation with speech dispatcher and server: https://github.com/skorotkiewicz/inflect-speechd
thanks for shearing!
by modinfo