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I'm curious, how did you generate the David Attenborough voice? The repo says:

> Bark tries to match the tone, pitch, emotion and prosody of a given preset, but does not currently support custom voice cloning.

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>I'm curious, how did you generate the David Attenborough voice? The repo says: >> Bark tries to match the tone, pitch, emotion and prosody of a given preset, but does not currently support custom voice cloning

Check back later in the week, I'll have a bit more on that later after I catch up on actual work and can write a bit.

Thanks!

https://github.com/serp-ai/bark-with-voice-clone

Not used at all, at least in my case.

I understand you didn't use that repo but did you do something other than change the audio prompt ?

Yeah, it's kind of hand crafted. There's more to the story and more results. I would normally just Tweet but I think it's actually so interesting that it deserves more than a tweet, at least a thoughtful writeup or a youtube video. (And I need to catch up on real work this week first, so end of week at best.)

Replying to myself in an old thread as a little easter egg. Bark is just so fun I can't resist a teaser.

Suno is seriously underselling the power of the fully operational Bark model. I'm already cranking out "French Obamas" and I didn't know anything about TTS a month ago. Heck, I still barely know anything. (Obama has been annoyingly resistant to gender flipping though.)

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ZbJYXoH8gmrEyMe1AJ0VdwzZkf_...

could you share a few resources on it. looking forward to your writeup

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