[HN Gopher] Coqui, a startup providing open speech tech for ever...
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Coqui, a startup providing open speech tech for everyone
Author : doener
Score : 74 points
Date : 2021-04-14 17:16 UTC (5 hours ago)
(HTM) web link (github.com)
(TXT) w3m dump (github.com)
| andrewfromx wrote:
| I think it's like https://www.descript.com/
| jsnk wrote:
| Descript doens't look like it's open source though.
| andrewfromx wrote:
| exactly, that's why this is exciting!
| rafaeltorres wrote:
| Just a note: the colorful frog pictured on the website
| (https://coqui.ai/) is not a coqui. Coquis are usually brown and
| tiny.
| https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/62/Coqui_Fr...
| explorigin wrote:
| I'm glad to see this. I hope they can get the TTS to sound more
| conversational and less like a newscaster...that being
| said...free is nice.
| EMM_386 wrote:
| The sample links are impressive to me. I don't follow the space
| closely but they sound conversational.
|
| https://soundcloud.com/user-565970875/pocket-article-wavernn...
| indigochill wrote:
| The quality is also miles better than the last open source TTS
| I've heard that wasn't just an Amazon SDK. I'll take
| newscaster-voice over robot-from-the-early-00's.
| trowngon wrote:
| Looks like a fork of Mozilla DeepSpeech by former DeepSpeech
| developers. What is the relation to the original project?
| basaltbeach wrote:
| tl;dr:
|
| - Mozilla fired the developers and mothballed the project
|
| - But wants to keep it around as a museum piece
|
| All ongoing development is happening in the fork.
| caddemon wrote:
| Nothing to do with the tech, but I love your name! I'm just a
| tourist in Puerto Rico but I've been a number of times and it
| always warms my heart to hear the Coqui frogs at night. I even
| play the recordings at home sometimes if I'm having trouble
| falling asleep.
|
| For anyone that hasn't heard of Coqui frogs before, they are
| pretty cool animals. Little guys, but a single one can be
| surprisingly loud and throw its voice pretty effectively. AFAIK
| they're only really found in Puerto Rico - apparently they can
| survive in other warm climates but will not sing? Maybe that's an
| urban legend though.
|
| Anyway I know the sound is a little contentious (some hotels get
| cats to cut down on guest complaints about the Coqui) but I'd
| recommend checking it out: https://musicofnature.com/coqui-magic-
| nightscapes/
| icedchai wrote:
| Unfortunately, it is a bad name because, right or wrong, it
| will be easily mispronounced. Cocky AI? Who wants that?
| spoonjim wrote:
| Kind of an Americentric perspective and also doesn't give
| people the benefit of the doubt. I'm an American who only
| speaks English but I think it's an awesome and interesting
| name compared to most of the lame product names out there.
| rhn_mk1 wrote:
| The computing industry could get less sensitive and accept
| that other languages than English exist.
| resoluteteeth wrote:
| In case it helps clarify what this is, I think the reason this is
| getting posted is because it was discussed earlier as a
| continuation of Mozilla's TTS work:
| https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26790281
| topicseed wrote:
| What is open speech tech? Clicked twice (GitHub, website's
| homepage) and didn't really get much out of it.
| amelius wrote:
| I'm not sure but in any case they have a great collection of
| papers and talks in that repository.
| Miraste wrote:
| They have text-to-speech software and speech-to-text software,
| both of which are open source.
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