There are great advancements in Text to Speech (as well as dictation) software (such as Piper, Mimic3), including free software, but standard packaging for it is missing. I'd love to use my years of packaging experience to work on it, delivering packages for major distros, as well as Termux and TTS Engine APK, the end goal being having them all accepted into the distros (including F-Droid). Would you join funding this work?
#pipertts #mimic3 #tts #termux #fdroid #debian #ubuntu #fedora #gentoo
@dominick @GustavoM My existing ticket suggesting #Mimic3 to be used for #texttospeech in #Firefox on #Linux: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1847459
Moreover I learned I can host #mimic3 as a server using the aptly named `mimic3-server` command!
Additionally, the marytts integration in #homeassistant will work when pointed at a mimic3-server! 🎉
This is all shaping up nicely!
The picture shows my entire TTS relevant configuration on my #homeassistant server.
(next post will have some downsides though...)
Ce week-end, je me suis amusé sur mon poste avec #mycroft et #mimic3 (text to speech) en français. Bon, on va pas se mentir, ce n'est pas parfait mais j'arrive à interroger wikipedia et lancer des musiques sur spotify. La prochaine étape est de changer le "wakeword" puis peut etre la partie "speech to text" qui est encore celui de google indirectement. Le plus bizarre / marrant est la lecture de mot anglais en français 🥖
I'm looking through the #Mimic3 voices for #MyCroft on the mycroft.ai website, and it's vast. There's so many languages and accents to find. What I find odd, though, is that German language speech synthesizer has emotions on it. The system can speak in a drunken, sleepy, or amused tone. We have truly come a long way with this technology. (BTW, no one needs to tell me about the origins of these samples.) #TextToSpeech #TTS
#Linux and #Python available? Then let us have some fun with #Mimic3 #TTS Text-To-Speech #AI.
Mimic3: https://github.com/MycroftAI/mimic3
>> sudo apt-get install libespeak-ng1
>> git clone https://github.com/MycroftAI/mimic3.git
>> cd mimic3
# recommended: Python virtualenv for the mimic3 directory
>> pip3 install mycroft-mimic3-tts[all]
>> mimic3 'Hi. Do you have Linux and Python available? Then let us have some fun with Text-To-Speech.' | aplay
>> mimic3 --help
SEPIA #OpenAssistant v2.7.0 has been released earlier this month ✌️🤖 and comes with a theme editor to build custom skins 🖌️🎨 long awaited support for #HomeAssistant to control your #smarthome 🗣️🏠💡 the ability to swap #speechrecognition models on-the-fly, support for #Mimic3 #TTS and much more! Check out: https://github.com/SEPIA-Framework/sepia-installation-and-setup/releases #opensource #robots #ai
I've seen some pretty nifty #homelab network maps on here, I need to get around to making something like that.
I'm kind of addicted to spinning up and hosting cool and useful services in #Docker at home (and/or on a #VPS).
Here are a few of them I use on a regular basis:
Anything super nifty y'all think I'm missing?
@oss Yea, not to go into complete shill mode here (I am a fan though, so no promises) the software is currently available on GitHub (https://github.com/MycroftAI/mycroft-core), and I've had a lot of success just basically running it on anything I try. Even got it to work on my #PinePhone. It's also been integrated with the new KDE Plasma Bigscreen for the voice control aspects.
If you want to test it out, it runs on as little as a Pi3, though you can't really get the #Mimic3 with that.
@mahmoudajawad Hardware wise, they've been abysmally slow. Software wise, they've been OK. They've recently put out #Mimic3, which is really good actually. It's separate from #Mycroft, so it can be used for pretty much anything, and its quality is up there with any TTS solution I've heard running on a local machine.
Hey Mycroft community, what platform would you like us to host an AMA (Ask Me Anything) with #mimic3 maker, Mike Hansen?
We had over 1000 downloads of #mimic3 on the first day :dab:
We want to know what you guys are creating with it :badabing: Let us know!
#Mimic3 supports over 25 languages, new models trained in a week, needs only 70 MB install space, and works offline 😏
Have a look: https://mycroft.ai/mimic-3/
@pixelherodev I haven't tried this personally, so grain of salt here, but it's my understanding that the entire stack CAN run offline now. The #Selene part is still the biggest PITA as they don't have easy configuration to use it and it's setup is a pretty big pain. It's also not a turn key thing to switch #Mycroft installations from the default cloud version to the locally hosted version. #Mimic3 is by far the easiest to use. Despite all that, it is an option to run everything fully on prem.
