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Please please release an open model for text to speech. State of the art text to speech is amazing, but it’s still all being gatekept by Eleven.ai and OpenAI

What’s your take on Coqui-TTS?

Today is your lucky day:

WhisperSpeech – An open source text-to-speech system built by inverting Whisper

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39036796

Yes, tel scammer will surely love it.

We should ban computers because it allows scammers to scam people.

Since when pointing out something’s bad characteristics means to “ban” it? What the hell is going in your head, for god’s sake??

Facebook's future is dead unless they can get into hardware.

They are? See: https://about.fb.com/news/2023/05/metas-infrastructure-for-a... They also make other hardware like the Quest and the Meta Raybans.

Excited to see this after seeing FB's work in the past few years to advance cryptocurrency and NFT.

I mean they put out Llama and Llama 2 which kind of kickstarted the whole “open” LLM world.

How Meta is advancing GenAI