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New comment by brettpro in "VibeVoice: A Frontier Open-Source Text-to-Speech Model"

brettpro — Thu, 04 Sep 2025 04:17:21 +0000

I recently implemented Fish for a project and found it adequate for TTS but wildly impressive in voice cloning. My POC originally required 3-10 audio samples but I removed the minimum because it could usually one shot it.

The model is good, but I will say their inference code leaves a lot to be desired. I had to rewrite large portions of it for simple things like correct chunking and streaming. The advertised expressive keywords are very much hit and miss, and the devs have gone dark unfortunately.

New comment by brettpro in "PYX: The next step in Python packaging"

brettpro — Thu, 14 Aug 2025 04:52:10 +0000

Welp, I guess it's time to start pulling all the uv deps out of our builds and enjoy the extra 5 minutes of calm per deploy. I'm not gonna do another VC-fueled supply chain poisoning switcheroo under duress of someone else's time crunch to start churning profit.

New comment by brettpro in "VC-backed company just killed my EU trademark for a small OSS project"

brettpro — Thu, 14 Aug 2025 04:01:37 +0000

> What I do think is important is to not disappear or go quietly when these companies attempt these things

It is exceptionally easy to tell someone else to spend time and money for a cause you philosophically agree with.

What will you, specifically, do to help this person in this case?

New comment by brettpro in "Video game workers in North America now have an industry-wide union"

brettpro — Thu, 20 Mar 2025 05:30:09 +0000

If Ashly Burch isn't on board, I'm not on board.

Look to who is benefiting. Do you see any names you recognize? Anybody you love to hear?

If you want to hear, see, mocap them more make sure they are on board before your declare a side.

Edit: typo