There's a number of recent, good quality, small TTS models.

If the author doesn't describe some detail about the data, training, or a novel architecture, etc, I only assume they just took another one, do a little finetuning, and repackage as a new product.

Any recommendations?

Depends how small or complex you want a TTS, as flite + flitevox voice packages worked on pi or zynq ARM cpu just fine. =3

Also:

https://github.com/sparkaudio/spark-tts

You should put examples comparing the 4 models you released - same text spoken by each.

great idea, let me add this. meanwhile, you can try the models on our huggingface spaces demo here: https://huggingface.co/spaces/KittenML/KittenTTS-Demo

If you don't limit code size, you could just put weights in there.

As mentioned elsewhere, you can type anything in the Language box:

Language: "a dumb guy"

Input: Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.

Output: So, like, a long-ass time ago, our great-granddads or whatever started this new country right here. They were all about being free and stuff, and they figured that everyone is, you know, pretty much the same.

Bet on high job-growth market: Security guard for data centers.

Stand in front with a gun while mobs come to burn down the data center that took their jobs.

(I think I'm half joking).

Too late!

1: https://www.businessinsider.com/robot-dogs-quadruped-data-ce...

> Stand in front with a gun while mobs come to burn down the data center that took their jobs.

I doubt it'd be old hit-and-run, more like small scale Ukraine with drones filled with explosives.

Still need rocket defense though.

Oh please that will be done by drone and killer robots.

Drones took the jobs of angry mobs and the world will never be the same.

And what's the price if you want to stop at all 12 cities listed there?

If that's your actual goal sure.

I’m not convinced you read the post. I believe the author makes quite explicit their goal was to actually visit these cities, noting this is far from the most efficient bus route. Their itinerary also shows long stays in several spots.

Yes. I am just saying what an amazing thing air travel is when this is your baseline.

There are great mid-sized towns along the the route, especially in Parana and Sao Paulo. I'd have liked to read about any impressions.

Everyone is complaining about movie theater prices. But, I'll also complain about streaming prices. I want to watch The Secret Agent and it's $9.99 to rent on Apple TV. It doesn't seem to make sense in comparison to month all-you-can-watch subscription prices.

never brought a streaming subscription to anything in my life and never will. been torrenting all my life from 2000s

Presumably, the business goal is to steer you toward (recurring) subscription rather than (one-off) pay-to-watch activities.

This is one thing I really despise about the streaming world. When rental stores were a thing you could grab older movies from the bargain bin to rest for $1 or less. Now all movies are the same price no matter if it's new or 30 years old.

> The establishment folks are mostly sensible.

The establishment has been replaced by MAGA and The Heritage Foundation extremists. The "data collection", surveys, remote-sensing etc are things they all want to get rid of and are doing so.

Here's one article from last year about climate datasets being disappeared,

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20250422-usa-scientists-r...

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