[HN Gopher] Coqui, a startup providing open speech tech for ever... ___________________________________________________________________ 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. ___________________________________________________________________ (page generated 2021-04-14 23:01 UTC)