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Grok disagrees, chatGPT disagrees, freaking google disagrees. Could you provide names please?

Your Google skills may need some work because this is the first result for "bank CEO jailed by TARP":

https://archives.fbi.gov/archives/atlanta/press-releases/201...



I think you just perfectly demonstrated why everyone hates AI summaries.

Legal system supposed to…

Too bad it’s working only for the powerful.

Marx was right about some things…


Man, if this was irl, you'd be punched in the face or ostracized. That's a quick way to assess if your tone is right.

If you don't have a mental capacity to do that (nothing against you, some people are just born that way) — I pity you, but still, try to be 'helpful' over 'correct'. That's how civilization is built.

Wikipedia also have this problem, with moderators using some 'wiki-speak' jargon to 'win the comment battles'.


you are missing the point


And ads based on a fart! I guess you could throw in some spectrography for content aware ads too!! ‘Hmm, I sense you like onions, you would love French soup in the restaurant downstairs today!’


How hard is it to make TTS out of this? A few independent journalists from Belarus asked for TTS in their language, but I am no expert, was thinking about re-using Mozilla's work. What's the easiest way to get working TTS for a language?


EDIT: My bad, please disregard; As akreal pointed out, the MMS TTS models aren’t using the SSL models.

Original post:

You can use the OmniASR SSL models instead of their older MMS models to create TTS models: https://github.com/ylacombe/finetune-hf-vits


As far as I understand, the MMS TTS models are trained from scratch (section 7.1 of [1]), they do not employ any SSL models. So the OmniASR SSL models are not useful here.

What might be interesting is the newly released OmniASR data, because the MMS data, which was used for the MMS TTS, was never released.

Also, the OmniASR can be used to transcribe some untranscribed speech to train a TTS on it.

[1] MMS paper: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2305.13516


You’re completely right, I misremembered. I edited my post.


Meta cheated with the mms models. That is they didn’t use a phonemeizsr step. This means they just won’t work or sound very strange. ASR data is usually not quite right for tts. But anyhow - not really answering your question but many of these languages already done in mms. Try them https://huggingface.co/spaces/willwade/sherpa-onnx-tts


From TFA, it says that it’s extremely easy to add new languages with just a few examples. I didn’t see specifics on how “few” it really is, though.


This is ASR not TTS though.


I’ve started using text scaling on HN (Cmd++ on Mac, available on mobile, too) and it’s much easier to read and pleasant to the eye this way.


Oh, that's a great idea. I see Firefox also has this in the settings under Accessibility. I guess I never looked there because I don't think of myself as disabled. (Maybe I should.)


More and more - especially on Apple products - Accessibility is the "customization" menu, not the "disabled support" it used to be.

Size increases, animation decreases (when your iPhone is getting old, turn off animation and behold it operating super fast!), etc can all be found there.

I zoom websites until they "feel right" which is usually something close to "they are as wide as the window I have them in" - HN is a few taps up from "actual size".


given enough time we all become disabled


Excellent tl;dr! Would pay to get them for every worthwhile tech article.


<3


I think it’s an artifact of AI being used to write it.

I spotted a few more down the page and stopped reading.

I trust the judgment (and curation) of a person who invested significant time into learning stuff and then took even more time to write it down.

I don’t trust people who use AI to generate text.

If I want to read AI slop — I can generate one myself.

I want some soul in texts.

It is a sad day for the internet.


Same thing, thinking about reinstalling :(


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