The models are mostly user trained and submitted, and can widely in quality. Some of them are great, but many of them are not.
This one is trained on graphemes only (no Arpabet phonemes, which hinders pronunciation), and doesn't have a fine tuned vocoder (which causes spectral distortion "noise"). No notes on the data set source or quality.
Many commercial products (Descript, etc) are hella good; so is 15.ai ( https://15.ai/ )
The tinker in me wishes there existed a high quality open source voice synthesis solution, but I get it, ethical concerns (plus making $$$ if it's locked behind an API).
Right when I feel like the internet's becoming too corporate and optimized towards SEO for the sake of profit and profit alone, I land on a gem like this. Thank you brrr lords for bearing the webhosting cost for something fun.
this was cool two years ago. it needs an update for this year's situation.
how about a slow reverse mode that plays the music in reverse, runs the animation in reverse and then kicks the slider back forward as things appear to smack into a wall?
A Bitcoin based economy would be unable to handle more than an infinitesimal number of transactions that take place and would be remarkably slow handling that infinitesimal amount of transactions. Price volatility would prevent businesses from selling in Bitcoin, workers from being paid in Bitcoin, taxes being collected in Bitcoin, and international trade agreements being contracted in Bitcoin.
> A Bitcoin-based economy would not suffer from this problem.
I rather like the ability of my government to use monetary policy to create favorable environments for growth. Sometimes we get a bit ahead of ourselves and things come crashing down, but when it's good it's great.
> Additionally, behold the list of extant desirable use cases for a decentralized cryptocurrency:
There are lots of bad use cases for crypto.
1. Crypto directly enables ransomware and terrorist financing
2. Crypto creators and whales get much of the upside. Why should we reward them rather than transact with the currencies our governments use? Governments which provide an actual social safety net?
3. People can lose a lot of money with dumb mistakes. There are no support strings.
>1. Crypto directly enables ransomware and *terrorist financing*
Citation needed. Almost all terror financing happens with fiat (the data was released by the FBI last year. I'll update this when I find the PDF), drug & human trafficking all happen with fiat (U.S Dollar specifically). Maybe we should ban the Dollar since it makes so many terrible things possible?
Maybe encryption is bad too. I hear bad guys use it to hide their nefarious plots. /s
>Additionally, behold the list of extant desirable use cases for a decentralized cryptocurrency:
>1. Donating to scihub
You mustn't be aware that Bitcoin transactions are 100% traceable (and are being traced). Donating to scihub with something like bitcoin would be opening up yourself to legal trouble depending on what country you live in. You'd have more privacy using your CC.
Bitcoin is utterly useless as a form of currency. It's non-fungible, and your entire transaction history is open to the whole public to see.
inflation due to overprinting of money, as evidenced by BTC and DJI crazy high stock values. things with known intrinsic worth continue to climb higher in USD, which, for it's part, is cheapened as part of the madness of the west careening toward annihilation. the system is a self driving Tesla car and it's about to hit a pylon / dog / human thing.
A vocal subset of cryptocurrency pushers have as twisted a view on economics as mainstream economists. This is an art piece depicting one faulty view.
bonus edit: Printing money could be a handy way to carry the country through the current deep structural change in the nature of the economy from one based on industry (putting capital to work) and finance (creating and allocating capital through loans) to one based on services. Instead, it's being used to prop up the existing system. The art piece is based on the widespread and faulty belief that a government's ability to create money is inherently bad.
Printing money addressed the immediate problem of having to save people and businesses during the pandemic. Now the mess needs to be cleaned up of course but how would one have solved that pandemic problem in a crypto currency world?
Purely hypothetically: allow large institutions with external credit-backing (in the Pratchett sense... "four gold golems") to transact when they have no money, essentially gaining a negative balance. In other words, there's technically nothing about crypto stopping a large, trusted institution from deficit-spending if people allowed the rules to allow it.
Of course, if the rules of the crypto network disallow it, then institutions can't spend on future value and you get a sovereign bankruptcy situation. Few people who have lived through one would recommend it.
This site isn't trying to say anything at all, by the way. It's been up since the original money printer meme started[0] back in March 2020, as a response to interest rates falling extremely low in an effort to stimulate the economy.
I have modern designer level BenQ 4k monitor and I watched the money go BRRRRRRR for about a minute and then when I turned off, there was burned in image still flashing. I never knew this was even possible on modern monitor. Luckily after doing couple restarts, in about 10 min it dissipated.
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The models are mostly user trained and submitted, and can widely in quality. Some of them are great, but many of them are not.
This one is trained on graphemes only (no Arpabet phonemes, which hinders pronunciation), and doesn't have a fine tuned vocoder (which causes spectral distortion "noise"). No notes on the data set source or quality.
It's about what I'd expect for a Jpow model.
The tinker in me wishes there existed a high quality open source voice synthesis solution, but I get it, ethical concerns (plus making $$$ if it's locked behind an API).
https://memetic.institute/
There's no money being made here but donations it seems.
how about a slow reverse mode that plays the music in reverse, runs the animation in reverse and then kicks the slider back forward as things appear to smack into a wall?
Additionally, behold the list of extant desirable use cases for a decentralized cryptocurrency:
1. Donating to scihub
2. Reminding HN that a list with a single element in it is still a valid list.
I rather like the ability of my government to use monetary policy to create favorable environments for growth. Sometimes we get a bit ahead of ourselves and things come crashing down, but when it's good it's great.
> Additionally, behold the list of extant desirable use cases for a decentralized cryptocurrency:
There are lots of bad use cases for crypto.
1. Crypto directly enables ransomware and terrorist financing
2. Crypto creators and whales get much of the upside. Why should we reward them rather than transact with the currencies our governments use? Governments which provide an actual social safety net?
3. People can lose a lot of money with dumb mistakes. There are no support strings.
Citation needed. Almost all terror financing happens with fiat (the data was released by the FBI last year. I'll update this when I find the PDF), drug & human trafficking all happen with fiat (U.S Dollar specifically). Maybe we should ban the Dollar since it makes so many terrible things possible?
Maybe encryption is bad too. I hear bad guys use it to hide their nefarious plots. /s
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/johntemplon/bitcoin-cry...
https://www.coindesk.com/policy/2020/08/13/us-prosecutors-se...
https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/security/north-korea-stole-reco...
https://asia.nikkei.com/Opinion/Will-North-Korea-be-the-deat...
We're in the early days of crypto being used to fund terrorists. The usage is growing rapidly.
You mustn't be aware that Bitcoin transactions are 100% traceable (and are being traced). Donating to scihub with something like bitcoin would be opening up yourself to legal trouble depending on what country you live in. You'd have more privacy using your CC.
Bitcoin is utterly useless as a form of currency. It's non-fungible, and your entire transaction history is open to the whole public to see.
Yes, it would no doubt suffer from the worse problem of deflationary episodes:
* https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2012/08/why-the...
* https://archive.fo/FWKcL
* https://www.vox.com/2014/7/16/5900297/case-against-gold-stan...
We've been here before with the gold standard and it does not work very well.
bonus edit: Printing money could be a handy way to carry the country through the current deep structural change in the nature of the economy from one based on industry (putting capital to work) and finance (creating and allocating capital through loans) to one based on services. Instead, it's being used to prop up the existing system. The art piece is based on the widespread and faulty belief that a government's ability to create money is inherently bad.
https://youtu.be/O1hCLBTD5RM & https://old.reddit.com/r/wallstreetbets/comments/l8rf4k/time... & & https://youtu.be/GI7sBsBHdCk?t=117
Of course, if the rules of the crypto network disallow it, then institutions can't spend on future value and you get a sovereign bankruptcy situation. Few people who have lived through one would recommend it.
0: https://github.com/memetic-institute/Money-printer-go-BRRR/c... - the meme https://youtu.be/O1hCLBTD5RM
I have modern designer level BenQ 4k monitor and I watched the money go BRRRRRRR for about a minute and then when I turned off, there was burned in image still flashing. I never knew this was even possible on modern monitor. Luckily after doing couple restarts, in about 10 min it dissipated.