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GNU General Public License v3.0 only | MIT License |
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menulibre
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Menulibre regressions
So, that being said, if you have issues, bugs, suggestions and apparent gripes, I would strongly recommend you file reports either with your specific distribution who is responsible for packaging menulibre (i.e. not Xfce) or [open up an issue with Menulibre directly instead of bitching about it here.
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.desktop files become unhidden after updates
The GUI application menulibre can also be used for this process. It's in the AUR
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Help
Is this what you did to install RuneLite/get your account hacked? I've not heard of "menulibre" but upon checking its GitHub page it seems legit...
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App ideas for GNOME (GTK4) Vala?
You could take some inspiration from MenuLibre or Alacarte. It would be great to see a modern alternative that follows the GNOME Design Principles and uses GTK4+libadwaita.
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Anyone know why PackageKit blocks Zypper while updating it's cache?
I also use MenuLibre to create a shortcut to stop and start PackageKit. I hope the bug gets fixed soon.
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What beautiful Linux apps deserve more "marketing attention" for lack of a better term?
Menu Libre/ Menu Editor : Slick GUI app for editing your app icons, names etc.
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Where's the AppData??? (CrossOver for ChromeOS)
You can then use MenuLibre (sudo apt install menulibre) to add a shortcut to the launcher.
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[Mock-up] App Metadata Editor by Tobias Bernard
The mock-up is setting up Workbench as an example of app metadata editing. Ultimately this conceptual tool works like MenuLibre but for AppStream metadata XML files (those *.appdata.xml thingies) instead of XDG desktop files.
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What is the best way to edit the categories in the application menu?
Using Pop!_OS 21.10, everything pretty much is left as default except I am using Dash to Panel and ArcMenu. I am currently using the "Plasma" menu layout option in ArcMenu which shows apps you've pinned and allows you to view apps organized by catergory. I'm unsure what the best way to organize each of the menu categories is, however. I have used MenuLibre in the past, but I get weird behavior on Pop!_OS. Here is an example - what is shown in the "Systems Tools" category does not match what I have set via MenuLibre:
- My experience daily driving Linux as a beginner.
piper
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Ask HN: Open-source, local Text-to-Speech (TTS) generators
Mozilla's browser tts is kind of not bad, just parse and buffer one sentence at a time and it does all right.
For the backend, I've experimented with piper, which has a lot of voices and accents, though it's tricky to buffer and sync long texts.
https://github.com/rhasspy/piper
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ESpeak-ng: speech synthesizer with more than one hundred languages and accents
After some brief research it seems the issue you're seeing may be a known bug in at least some versions/release of espeak-ng.
Here's some potentially related links if you'd like to dig deeper:
* "questions about mandarin data packet #1044": https://github.com/espeak-ng/espeak-ng/issues/1044
* "ESpeak NJ-1.51βs Mandarin pronunciation is corrupted #12952": https://github.com/nvaccess/nvda/issues/12952
* "The pronunciation of Mandarin Chinese using ESpeak NJ in NVDA is not normal #1028": https://github.com/espeak-ng/espeak-ng/issues/1028
* "When espeak-ng translates Chinese (cmn), IPA tone symbols are not output correctly #305": https://github.com/rhasspy/piper/issues/305
* "Please default ESpeak NG's voice role to 'Chinese (Mandarin, latin as Pinyin)' for Chinese to fix #12952 #13572": https://github.com/nvaccess/nvda/issues/13572
* "Cmn voice not correctly translated #1370": https://github.com/espeak-ng/espeak-ng/issues/1370
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WhisperSpeech β An Open Source text-to-speech system built by inverting Whisper
If you're not already aware, the primary developer of Mimic 3 (and its non-Mimic predecessor Larynx) continued TTS-related development with Larynx and the renamed project Piper: https://github.com/rhasspy/piper
Last year Piper development was supported by Nabu Casa for their "Year of Voice" project for Home Assistant and it sounds like Mike Hansen is going to continue on it with their support this year.
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Coqui.ai Is Shutting Down
Coqui-ai was a commercial continuation of Mozilla TTS and STT (https://github.com/mozilla/TTS).
At the time (2018-ish), it was really impressive for on-device voice synthesis (with a quality approaching the Google and Azure cloud-based voice synthesis options) and open source, so a lot of people in the FOSS community were hoping it could be used for a privacy-respecting home assistant, Linux speech synthesis that doesn't suck, etc.
After Mozilla abandoned the project, Coqui continued development and had some really impressive one-shot voice cloning, but pivoted to marketing speech synthesis for game developers. They were probably having trouble monetizing it, and it doesn't surprise me that they shut down.
An equivalent project that's still in active development and doing really well is Piper TTS (https://github.com/rhasspy/piper).
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OpenVoice: Versatile Instant Voice Cloning
There isn't an ElevenLabs app like that, but I think that's the most expedient method, by far.
(details and warning: in-depth, opinionated take, written almost for my own benefit, I've done a lot of work near here recently but haven't had to organize my thoughts until now)
Why? Local inference is hard. You need two things: the clips to voice model (which we have here, but bleeding edge), and text + voice -> speech model.
Text to voice to speech, locally, has excellent prior art for me, in the form of a Raspberry Pi-based ONNX inference library called [Piper](https://github.com/rhasspy/piper). I should just be able to copy that, about an afternoon of work!
Except...when these models are trained, they encode plaintext to model input using a library called eSpeak. eSpeak is basically f(plaintext) => ints representing phonemes. eSpeak is a C library and written in a style I haven't seen in a while and depends on other C libraries. So I end up needing to port like 20K lines of C to Dart...or I could use WASM, but over the last year, I lost the ability to be able to reason through how to get WASM running in Dart, both native and web.
It's a really annoying technical problem: the speech models all use this eSpeak C library to turn plaintext => model input (tokenized phonemes).
Re: ElevenLabs
I had looked into the API months ago and vaguely remembered it was _very_ complete.
I spent the last hour or two playing with it, and reconfirmed that. They have enough API surface that you could build an API that took voice recordings, created a voice, and then did POSTs / socket connection to get audio data from that voice at will.
Only issue is pricing IMHO, $0.18 for 1000 characters. :/ But this is something I feel very comfortable saying wouldn't be _that_ much work to build and open source with a "bring your own API key" type thing. I had forgotten about Eleven Labs till your post, which made me realize there was an actually meaningful and quite moving use case for it.
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Hello guys, any selfhosted alternative to eleven labs?
piper (https://github.com/rhasspy/piper)
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[D] What offline TTS Model is good enough for a realistic real-time task?
I have been using piper-tts and it is GREAT and super lightweight / easy to use. On a 2080 I'm sure you can use the HQ models no worries!
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Easy implement TTS libary for cpp
So i found some library and one which is from github and have read.me or good documentation called piper (https://github.com/rhasspy/piper) so apparently this library is for rasbery pi and yes there is TXT function and i need to modify again to make it more simple but my simple project don't need this kind of big complex libary and all i need is what i said before just a function that can output sound from computer using c++ libary.
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Piper-whistle β Tool for piper TTS voice model management
piper-whistle is a tool to manage voices used with the piper (https://github.com/rhasspy/piper) speech synthesizer. Main motivation was to download and reference models in a structured way. You may browse the docs online at https://think-biq.gitlab.io/piper-whistle/
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StyleTTS2 β open-source Eleven Labs quality Text To Speech
You may want to try Piper for this case (RPi 4): https://github.com/rhasspy/piper
What are some alternatives?
PackageKit - A D-BUS abstraction layer that allows the user to manage packages in a secure way using a cross-distro, cross-architecture API.
tortoise-tts - A multi-voice TTS system trained with an emphasis on quality
subdownloader - Download and upload subtitles with ease!
TTS - πΈπ¬ - a deep learning toolkit for Text-to-Speech, battle-tested in research and production
appeditor - Edit application menu
espeak-ng - eSpeak NG is an open source speech synthesizer that supports more than hundred languages and accents.
gtk3-mushrooms - Patches to bring back a traditional experience for GTK+3
silero-models - Silero Models: pre-trained speech-to-text, text-to-speech and text-enhancement models made embarrassingly simple
imgur-screenshot - Take screenshot selection, upload to imgur. + more cool things
mimic3 - A fast local neural text to speech engine for Mycroft
pop-dictionary - Access English Language dictionary definitions from the Launcher in Pop!_OS ("define XYZ")
willow - Open source, local, and self-hosted Amazon Echo/Google Home competitive Voice Assistant alternative