I agree with the comment above. I have not logged into hacker news in _years_ but did so today just to weigh in here. If people are saying that the audio sounds great, then there is definitely something going on with a subset of users where we are only hearing garbled words with a LOT of distortion. This does not sound like natural speech to met at all. It sounds more like a warped cassette tape. And I do not mean to slight your work at all. I am actually incredibly puzzled here to understand why my perception of this is so radically different from others!

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guerrilla a day ago | parent [-]

Thank you for commenting. I wonder if this could be another situation like "the dress" (2015) or maybe something is wrong with our codecs...

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Mashimo 21 hours ago | parent [-]

No, nothing wrong with your codecs. It's sounds shitty. But given the small size and speed it's still impressive.

It's like saying .kkrieger looks like a bad game, which it does, but then again .kkrieger is only 96kb or whatever.

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guerrilla 20 hours ago | parent [-]

How big are TTS models like this usually?

.kkrieger looks like an amazing game for the mid-90s. It's incomprehensible that it's only 96kb.

	▲	Mashimo 19 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Here is an overview: https://www.inferless.com/learn/comparing-different-text-to-... Also keep in mind the processing time. The ^ article above used a NVIDIA L4 with 24-GB VRAM. Sopro claims 7.5 second processing time on CPU for 30 seconds of audio! If you want to get real good quality TTS, you should check out elevenlabs.io Different tools for different goals.