Thank you! Oh wow, espeak-ng is way better then Festival, tho it's not that bad itself. Is there a reason to use the latter over the former? I'm only just using these tools for the first time.
You have a point with all this, but we should all be able to agree that a speech synthesis program made prior to the big AI invasion 1. did not make use of large-scale data scraping, nor were they the product of stealing anyone and everyone's voices without a second thought, and 2. was likely made with much better intentions in mind then anything large companies are pushing currently, and 3. has far less of a negative impact on society and the environment at large. Even if the second one isn't true, what does that mean for all of us? Should we refuse to run a piece of open source software because one singular person on the dev team turned out to be a shithead? That's the direction I see this mindset going. Yes, we all should minimize the harm we do, as I am trying to do right now. I refuse to use any modern-day form of "generative" AI, so I decided to ask a community opposed to AI if there are any older, open source programs that could lend me a helping hand. No, I can't confirm that every single line of code was written with good intentions, but how could anyone, for anything? I'm pretty shocked to see this take on an anti-AI community, because this is one step away from "well, we can't stop it so lets just use it reluctantly instead of searching for other methods" which is the kind of idea that I think rarely holds water.
That's a damn quote.
Wait so if the Lemmy devs are transphobic... Should there not be a fork at this rate? Also, I've heard a lot of shit talked about .ml and seemingly for good reason but what's the story with all this? How did it get this bad?
As a Canadian, yeah, our wait times are rancid and they often get glossed over because of how bad America's healthcare is in comparison. Don't get me started on how Canadians will excuse any issue with the country because "at least we're not as bad as America" and shit like that.
But damn it, I'd still take our busted healthcare system over virtually NO healthcare system. Fuck paying to live. Oh wait, that's just capitalism.
To be fair, most people who use AI already are.
I read the last sentence as "these boys will pound you."
Fuck yeah, how can I acquire this kind of ban streak?
Eww "generative" AI get that shit away from me
Why are they all so fucking stupid?
Missed opportunity for the title of "penis_irl"
I love how this is my first Lemmy comment ever.
I have that too and it's so weird. I've always had the "ringing ears of silence" since I was little, where if I just sit there, eventually I'll hear some high ringing. Nowadays it only gets bad if I TRY to focus on it. I never exposed myself to much loud noise without hearing protection (I've always had sensitive ears anyway) and I try not to listen to music too loud, so idk why once or twice a month I just get this louder ringing that you describe for a minutes that goes away afterwards.