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The inability to train custom voices makes this useless for anything except generic TTS.

Why do AI devs keep shooting their own projects in the foot? This trend is upsetting me so much.

This is a fair point that should not have been downvoted. I was looking for yhe training code to train a voice for Arabic text after they removed the language from their list.

Hopefully someone standard defuse this model so that we can train the models that others aren't willing to train.

Probably because if they are seen as enablers of scams, they'll be shot by someone else.

nobody is suing elevenlabs

You don't need court order to be banned from GitHub.

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What are you talking about? It's MIT licensed.

there is no training code and devs don't plan on ever releasing it

It's only a matter of time.

It’s mostly there in https://github.com/lucidrains/audiolm-pytorch#hierarchical-t.... They just used FAIRs EnCodec (https://github.com/facebookresearch/encodec) instead of soundstream.

The voices aren’t the model; while the model takes cobventional training for which code is not provided, voices are, or at least can be, built by what could be described as “accumulated in-context learning”. Every time you run text with a voice (which can be null) through the inference process, the result is an audio waveform and an updated history prompt.

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