Gentle Alternatives

gentle reviews and mentions

• I'm looking for a way to automate an animation based on an audio file, so that it "flipbooks" a character's mouth just by flipping between a handful of frames based on the audio file's volume.
  1 project | /r/learnpython | 16 Feb 2023

  Gentle actually works on Linux, there's just no pre-built binary: https://github.com/lowerquality/gentle

• Looking for a tool that can synthesis my own voice in text to speech.
  1 project | /r/VocalSynthesis | 25 Jan 2023

  I just found Gentle yesterday and it looks like it might be a free tool to do what you’re looking for: https://lowerquality.com/gentle/

• YouTubeTranscript.com
  8 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 18 Dec 2022

  Thank you!

  Yes, exactly. We do forced alignment when you edit your transcript. The new words don't have any timestamps, so we need to align them. For short sections we use interpolation. If we need align whole sections we use Gentle[^1].

  [^1]: https://github.com/lowerquality/gentle

• [D] Voice recording to phonemes with timestamps? (Colab notebook, or...?)
  1 project | /r/MachineLearning | 18 Nov 2022

  Gentle also has web interface, only for English. Uses DNN acoustic models.

• Could I use modern voice-to-text tools to generate LIP files?
  1 project | /r/skyrimmods | 7 Jul 2022

  I found this old wiki page about the LIP file format used in Fallout 2: https://falloutmods.fandom.com/wiki/LIP_File_Format. FO2 != SSE, but it seems like a LIP file is primarily: what phonemes to use, and when. That could be pretty easily generated by a modern tool like Gentle (built on Kaldi). The trick would then be to tranform Gentle's output to whatever Skyrim expects in a LIP.

• The HTML Element
  1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 4 Dec 2021

  This is neat, and immediately made me think of the annotations that show up when you hit the play button on https://lowerquality.com/gentle/ , but it turns out those are made with absolutely-positioned divs and a lot of offline-precalculated px math.

• Automatic lip-sync test, I love how easy it is to hack stuff like this together using the Python API.
  1 project | /r/blender | 8 Jun 2021

  More info: I used gentle to convert the audio (and a text document with what was said) into a list of phonemes and the times at which they were said. I then used a Python script inside Blender to convert this list into an animation by smoothly gliding to whichever shape key has the current phoneme in its name.

• Can anyone please translate this circular writing? Thanks!
  1 project | /r/learn_arabic | 4 May 2021
• Any software that can annotate (grapheme/phonogram) in a word with the matching phoneme?
  1 project | /r/LanguageTechnology | 3 May 2021

  Gentle by lowerquality didn't help? (https://github.com/lowerquality/gentle) It returns time aligned phoneme sequences for each word, like 'ice' -> 'ai': t0, 's': t1. I suppose it doesn't tell you which exact letters are paired, but it matches individual words with phonemes using a set vocabulary, the CMU one. (http://www.speech.cs.cmu.edu/tools/lextool.html)

• Has anyone used aeneas or Festival TTS for word-level forced alignment? Struggling to get accurate results. Does Festival need to be installed?
  1 project | /r/speechrecognition | 12 Apr 2021

  We’ve had good results with gentle force alignment. https://github.com/lowerquality/gentle

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