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Exciting news on open-source neural voices!
Our first experiment is complete with fantastic results! Check out the audio sample attached to this post.
For this month, @pneumasolutions provided GPU resources for training. I really appreciate their contribution.
This is just the beginning. To keep training going, I'm still accepting donations. Any amount helps.
I'm happy to receive your donations via PayPal:
paypal.me/geotts
Please mention mush42/tts in the notes.

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@mush42 @pneumasolutions may i have a link to your optispeech hfc female checkpoint? I'd like to test this, i am really intreagued

Musharraf :verified:

@spacepup @pneumasolutions
Glad to hear this!
For now, I'm not making checkpoints available due to them being unstable.
While initial results are promising, I discovered an issue with FFT parameters. Fixed it, and currently waiting for the server to become available to fine-tune with corrected data.
Upon getting consistent output quality, I'll publish an online demo, and make the pretrained checkpoints available via HuggingFace.