Favorite thing lately is finding an article I wish were in podcast form, saving the text to a .txt file, then having TTS Util use RH Voice to convert the file into an audio reading, and listen to my own little robotic FOSS nanny read me the stories I want to hear in my headphones as I do yardwork.
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@netzpolitik_feed seitdem ich die Stimme von Thorsten mit Sherpa-TTS auf Android nutzen kann, funktioniert die Navigation endlich, auch auf googlefreiem Gerät, mit verständlicher Ansage. Ebooks vorlesen hört sich damit auch deutlich besser an, als mit anderen quelloffenen Lösungen. Danke dafür Thorsten! 
#tts #osm #osmand #organicmaps #grapheneos
It's talking like a human!
Have a call with Sesame's demo—their TTS model with fine-tuned Gemma3:27B
https://www.sesame.com/research/crossing_the_uncanny_valley_of_voice#demo
SesameCrossing the uncanny valley of conversational voiceAt Sesame, our goal is to achieve “voice presence”—the magical quality that makes spoken interactions feel real, understood, and valued.
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In an email to workers at the agency’s #Technology Transformation Services, Thomas Shedd, a fmr #Tesla engineer who is now the division’s dir, said that #18F had been identified as noncritical & would be cut.
“This decision was made with explicit direction from the top levels of leadership within both the administration & #GSA,” Shedd said in the email…. He added that while no other #TTS programs had been affected, “we anticipate more change in the future.”
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A letter to the American People:
https://18f.org/
"18F was doing exactly the type of work that #DOGE claims to want – yet we were eliminated.
When former #Tesla engineer Thomas Shedd took the position of #TTS director... he acknowledged that the group is the “gold standard” of civic #technologists... He repeatedly emphasized the importance of the work, and the value of the talent that the teams bring to #government"
Sidan Mona er ein iOS-app, er det takk og farvel ved overgang til /e/OS på Fp5. Mastodon ser grei ut i Vivaldi også, so det skal nok gå seg til!
Eg har blitt veldig glad i Vivaldi, det einaste eg manglar er TTS. Har prøvd ulike addons, utan ynskt resultat.
A worker at the General Services Administration resigned in protest rather than giving Elon Musk ally Thomas Shedd access to Notify.gov, the system used to send mass text messages to the public, which they said would allow him to see "all personally identifiable information moving through the Notify system, including phone numbers.” @404media reports:
https://www.404media.co/musk-ally-demands-admin-access-to-system-that-lets-government-text-the-public/
404 Media · Musk Ally Demands Admin Access to System That Lets Government Text the PublicA worker resigned in protest rather than giving Thomas Shedd access to Notify.gov, which they said would allow him to see "all personally identifiable information moving through the Notiy system, including phone numbers," 404 Media has learned.
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D’oh!: Musky Clown Show Temporarily Disrupts Firings at TTS
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/doh-musky-clown-show-temporarily-disrupts-firings-at-tts
"And they couldn’t easily ask their supervisors what was up since their supervisors hadn’t been looped in on the fact that members of their teams had been fired...
... #ThomasShedd, the #Musk associate appointed as the new head of #TTS, sent a message this afternoon to the whole team that it turns out … well, they’re not quite fired yet. “We don’t yet have the go-ahead from HR”
SherpaTTS für #Android. Verfügbar auf F-Droid. Relativ gute Text-to-Speech Engine wenn ihr mich fragt. 
f-droid.orgSherpaTTS | F-Droid - Free and Open Source Android App RepositoryText-to-Speech engine based on Next-gen Kaldi
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Privacy? Data Protection? Respect for Civil Liberties? "404 Not Found" when it comes to scumbags who love scifi dystopias...
"Thomas Shedd, a Musk-associate and now head of the General Services Administration’s Technology Transformation Services (TTS), told government tech workers in a meeting this week that the administration plans to widely deploy AI throughout the government. Shedd also said the administration would need help altering login.gov, a government login system, to further integrate with sensitive systems like social security “to further identify individuals and detect and prevent fraud,” which employees identified on the meeting as “an illegal task.”
Shedd, who is a former Tesla engineer, said the government should “try to get consent,” regarding login.gov changes but that “we should still push forward and see what we can do.”
WIRED and the New York Times previously reported on aspects of the meeting. 404 Media has now obtained audio of the full meeting and quotes it extensively below. Shedd told TTS workers that the administration would need help making radical changes to various government systems: “Things are going to get intense,” he said."
404 Media · ‘Things Are Going to Get Intense:’ How a Musk Ally Plans to Push AI on the Government404 Media has obtained audio of a meeting held by Thomas Shedd, a Musk-associate who is now heading a team of government coders. In the call one employee pushed back and said one of the planned moves is an “illegal task.”
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@MXC48 @publicvoit
Sherpa #tts is now available on F-Droid
#fdroid
SherpaTTS (Text-to-Speech engine based on Next-gen Kaldi)
https://f-droid.org/packages/org.woheller69.ttsengine/
f-droid.orgSherpaTTS | F-Droid - Free and Open Source Android App RepositoryText-to-Speech engine based on Next-gen Kaldi
For all you retro text to speech nerds out there, here's a recording of Superior Software's "Speech" for the Amstrad CPC computer (1986). This was a small piece of Z80 machine code that played phonemes through the computer's AY-3-8912 sound chip
It sounds pretty harsh, and there are a number of hard clicks in the output I couldn't easily fix.
I've included what I think is the spoken script as alt text
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Ahhh shit it's December 21st, got like 5 hours to finish reading this bad bitch
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So like I know there's non-lesbian reasons women got sent to convents but I don't think Cassandra's worried about those
![An excerpt from “Rapunzel and the Lost Lagoon” Chapter 15 by Leila Howland.
A basic transcript of the excerpt follows.
What was the point of staying in Corona? I couldn’t trust my best friend. I couldn’t go on even one little adventure without risking being sent to a convent. [...]
What kind of life was this for me?
I opened my weapons closet and picked out the most essential items to bring with me.
Why would Rapunzel do this when she knew the consequences for me? The blue silk dress hung like a ghost of her.
“What were you thinking?” I asked the dangling dress. “You just had to tell your boyfriend? What about our friendship? Doesn’t it mean anything to you?”
How could I have been so stupid as to trust her? And what else had she told him? Did he know about the lagoon? Had he known all this time about the swimming?](https://doesstuff.social/cdn/cf-r2/media_attachments/files/113/591/681/318/179/312/original/3cca8a093d21a27c.jpg "An excerpt from “Rapunzel and the Lost Lagoon” Chapter 15 by Leila Howland.
A basic transcript of the excerpt follows.
What was the point of staying in Corona? I couldn’t trust my best friend. I couldn’t go on even one little adventure without risking being sent to a convent. [...]
What kind of life was this for me?
I opened my weapons closet and picked out the most essential items to bring with me.
Why would Rapunzel do this when she knew the consequences for me? The blue silk dress hung like a ghost of her.
“What were you thinking?” I asked the dangling dress. “You just had to tell your boyfriend? What about our friendship? Doesn’t it mean anything to you?”
How could I have been so stupid as to trust her? And what else had she told him? Did he know about the lagoon? Had he known all this time about the swimming?")
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Rapunzel and Cassandra's character arcs were always meant to mirror Herz Der Sonne and General Shampanier's and THIS IS THE HILL I WILL DIE ON
![An excerpt from “Rapunzel and the Lost Lagoon” Chapter 13 by Leila Howland.
A basic transcript of the excerpt follows.
“More than two hundred years ago, the king of Corona, Herz Der Sonne, created a system of tunnels to move knights and supplies around the kingdom,” Xavier said. “We were at war with Saporia, after all, and these tunnels gave us a strategic advantage.”
[...]
“He had kept detailed maps of these tunnels in a book,” Xavier said.
“And General Shampanier, the ruler of Saporia, stole it. She was a serious warrior, and was going to use the tunnels to attack Corona. She probably would have conquered us—but at the end of the book she discovered Herz Der Sonne’s love confession. He was head over heels for this strong, intelligent woman.”](https://doesstuff.social/cdn/cf-r2/media_attachments/files/113/585/605/707/506/275/original/8a67eaf21a67b8e2.jpg "An excerpt from “Rapunzel and the Lost Lagoon” Chapter 13 by Leila Howland.
A basic transcript of the excerpt follows.
“More than two hundred years ago, the king of Corona, Herz Der Sonne, created a system of tunnels to move knights and supplies around the kingdom,” Xavier said. “We were at war with Saporia, after all, and these tunnels gave us a strategic advantage.”
[...]
“He had kept detailed maps of these tunnels in a book,” Xavier said.
“And General Shampanier, the ruler of Saporia, stole it. She was a serious warrior, and was going to use the tunnels to attack Corona. She probably would have conquered us—but at the end of the book she discovered Herz Der Sonne’s love confession. He was head over heels for this strong, intelligent woman.”")
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Trying really hard not to read gay subtext into platonic midnight swims in just your underwear but struggling
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Aaand I think I've had enough tortured sword lesbian simulator for now lmao
![An excerpt from “Rapunzel and the Lost Lagoon” Chapter 6 by Leila Howland.
A basic transcript of the excerpt follows.
And yet here I was, doomed to babysit the world’s peppiest princess.
How was I going to train? How was I going to live the life I was born to live?
Fury heated my blood as I stared down the moon.
[…]
“There’s nothing I can do,” I said […].
This was a decision that had bars around it. I couldn’t protest without falling out of favor with the king and queen, and then there would be no way I’d ever be allowed in the guard. I couldn’t argue my way out of this with my father. A royal assignment was the final word. My fate had been sealed. I fell to my knees and stifled a scream.](https://doesstuff.social/cdn/cf-r2/media_attachments/files/113/577/652/120/774/572/original/67a2e7035198a2b2.jpg "An excerpt from “Rapunzel and the Lost Lagoon” Chapter 6 by Leila Howland.
A basic transcript of the excerpt follows.
And yet here I was, doomed to babysit the world’s peppiest princess.
How was I going to train? How was I going to live the life I was born to live?
Fury heated my blood as I stared down the moon.
[…]
“There’s nothing I can do,” I said […].
This was a decision that had bars around it. I couldn’t protest without falling out of favor with the king and queen, and then there would be no way I’d ever be allowed in the guard. I couldn’t argue my way out of this with my father. A royal assignment was the final word. My fate had been sealed. I fell to my knees and stifled a scream.")