The Communication Cube

[Null]

I use ai mainly as a better google and suspect must people do too.

I'm using it to be lazy by having books read to me.

Software: Lector + SherpaTTS

 

[pyrat]

NOYB is asking the EU comission to orderly repeal the EU-US Data Privacy Framework because the US supreme Court just ruled that the FCC can't be independent because of the US Constitution. Since the EU legislation requires an independent data protection authority and the US had nominated the FCC, which can't be independent, the privacy framework won't comply with EU law, just like Privacy Shell and Safe Harbour were shot down in the courts. Well I doubt anyone really believed it was solid, given incompatible legislations, but this moves the courtain we're not supposed to look behind...

 

[kuru]

I'm using it to be lazy by having books read to me.

Software: Lector + SherpaTTS

How's the performance, does your phone get hot/bog down, or are there long pauses between the chunks where it has to compute before the next output?
And how is the quality, does it sound natural/better than the google network voices?

I've been using google network voices in FBReader, but was never really happy with the quality. The offline ones are worse, rather robotic.
Piper-TTS is quite performant running on Rk3588, it runs in real time, but it's about the same quality as the google online stuff.
Kokoro-TTS on the other hand is a big difference, the voices sound very natural. But it's quite a lot slower and fully loads all eight cores all the time. I'll try to convert the ONNX file to RKNN format with the rockchipNPU-toolkit2 to hopefully make it run on the NPU.

 

[Null]

How's the performance, does your phone get hot/bog down, or are there long pauses between the chunks where it has to compute before the next output?

There are noticeable pauses. But then I am running the apps on a phone that was released in 2022, and it has never been the most powerful of devices.

Oukitel WP18 - Specifications

Specifications of the Oukitel WP18. Dimensions: 83 x 174.8 x 18.5 mm, Weight: 380 g, SoC: MediaTek Helio A22 (MT6761), CPU: 4x 2.0 GHz ARM Cortex-A53, GPU: IMG PowerVR GE8300, 660 MHz, RAM: 4 GB, 1600 MHz, Storage: 32 GB, Display: 5.93 in, IPS, 720 x 1440 pixels, 24 bit, Battery: 12500 mAh...

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And how is the quality, does it sound natural/better than the google network voices?

The voices sound pretty natural to me. You can test them out at https://huggingface.co/spaces/willwade/sherpa-onnx-tts