hmm_tts_build VS NeMo

A nice enhancement for the system is having TTS read out the currently selected text, triggered by a key shortcut.

I tried festival and it too complicated and my version was too to run the better voices model.

Instead I've used this repo to use upgraded flite: https://github.com/kastnerkyle/hmm_tts_build/

I have mapped keyboard shortcuts Win+1 for normal speed, Win+2 for faster and Win+3 for really fast reading speed. I can use it while reading, to enhance my focus. Neat.

I don't test WaveRNN but from the ones that I know the best that is open source is FastPitch. And it's easy to use, here is the tutorial for voice cloning.

Nowadays... bigger repos like https://github.com/NVIDIA/NeMo are all pytorch, lots of work also published by Meta and Microsoft is all torch. I check new work on GitHub all the time and I haven't seen a Tensorflow repo in years except one.

- https://github.com/NVIDIA/NeMo

Can’t you use the NeMo model and just strip the punctuation from the output again if you don’t want it? You can also fine tune the the model with capitalization only if you look at the examples https://github.com/NVIDIA/NeMo/blob/stable/tutorials/nlp/Punctuation_and_Capitalization.ipynb The capitalization and punctuation are annotated separately (U indicates that the word should be upper cased, and O - no capitalization ). The model seems to be a token level classifier not seq to seq so there should also be a way to get just the capitalization part but you would have to look into the model as it’s not shown in the examples.

I think there's been talk to do speaker diarization with whisper-asr-webservice[0] which is also written in python and should be able to make use of goodies such as pyannote-audio, py-webrtcvad, etc.

Whisper is great but at the point we get to kludging various things together it starts to make more sense to use something like Nvidia NeMo[1] which was built with all of this in mind and more

[0] - https://github.com/ahmetoner/whisper-asr-webservice

[1] - https://github.com/NVIDIA/NeMo

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