Pocket TTS: A high quality TTS that gives your CPU a voice
https://kyutai.org/blog/2026-01-13-pocket-tts
#HackerNews #PocketTTS #TTS #Voice #Technology #HighQuality #CPU #VoiceAssistant
Em :official_verified:
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Calls to fast track Bill to criminalise harmful misuse of someone’s voice or image-IrishTimes
… introduced Protection of #Voice & #Image Bill in April, which would criminalise what are colloquially known as “deepfakes” - when someone’s voice or image is used to generate a false photo or video with #AI.
It follows concerns over Elon #Musk ’s AI tool #Grok being used to digitally undress women & children for distribution on his social media channel X.
#privacy #deepfake
Calls to fast track Bill to criminalise harmful misuse of someone’s voice or image-IrishTimes
… introduced Protection of #Voice & #Image Bill in April, which would criminalise what are colloquially known as “deepfakes” - when someone’s voice or image is used to generate a false photo or video with #AI.
It follows concerns over Elon #Musk ’s AI tool #Grok being used to digitally undress women & children for distribution on his social media channel X.
#privacy #deepfake
Wow.
(Went down a rabbit hole of looking up Turkish songs to vocal coach reactions to famous Turkish singers to… well… this.)
Evil-Man (Py-Ron)
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PSA for any trans+ person looking to start, or currently doing, any kind of voice training
Seattle Voice Lab has broken their silence over a former employee of theirs (Jimmy Chen), who set up his own voice coaching service called Trans Voice Lab.
We need to address Trans Voice Lab.
We highly recommend watching / listening to the whole video, but here are some key points within their video:
- Jimmy's employment was terminated for "manipulative teaching practices and dishonesty towards" their students.
- He downloaded their bespoke training materials (SVL's intellectual property) and client lists (!!!), then used these to set up his own voice coaching service and write a book.
- SVL didn't want to have to make the video, but has felt obliged to do so.
- SVL is pursuing "legal counsel" over Jimmy's actions.
tl;dr
- Avoid any videos or guides from Jimmy Chen.
- Avoid using Trans Voice Lab at all costs.
Boosts and crossposts very welcome, as we need to make more folks aware of this 
#trans #transgender #enby #NonBinary #voice #VoiceTraining #VoiceTherapy #VoiceCoaching #VoiceFeminization #VoiceFeminisation #VoiceMasculinization #VoiceMasculinisation #SeattleVoiceLab #TransVoiceLab #JimmyChen #PSA #queer #LGBTQ+ #LGBTQIA+ #BoostsWelcome
PSA for any trans+ person looking to start, or currently doing, any kind of voice training
Seattle Voice Lab has broken their silence over a former employee of theirs (Jimmy Chen), who set up his own voice coaching service called Trans Voice Lab.
We need to address Trans Voice Lab.
We highly recommend watching / listening to the whole video, but here are some key points within their video:
- Jimmy's employment was terminated for "manipulative teaching practices and dishonesty towards" their students.
- He downloaded their bespoke training materials (SVL's intellectual property) and client lists (!!!), then used these to set up his own voice coaching service and write a book.
- SVL didn't want to have to make the video, but has felt obliged to do so.
- SVL is pursuing "legal counsel" over Jimmy's actions.
tl;dr
- Avoid any videos or guides from Jimmy Chen.
- Avoid using Trans Voice Lab at all costs.
Boosts and crossposts very welcome, as we need to make more folks aware of this
#trans #transgender #enby #NonBinary #voice #VoiceTraining #VoiceTherapy #VoiceCoaching #VoiceFeminization #VoiceFeminisation #VoiceMasculinization #VoiceMasculinisation #SeattleVoiceLab #TransVoiceLab #JimmyChen #PSA #queer #LGBTQ+ #LGBTQIA+ #BoostsWelcome
Delighted to provide expert commentary for this article about automated accent bias in #voice #AI systems, by Joshua Gliddon for @smartcompany
https://www.smartcompany.com.au/artificial-intelligence/how-your-aussie-accent-could-trip-up-ai/
Neil Brown
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Microsoft Releases AI Call Center Stack with Voice, SMS, and Memory
https://github.com/microsoft/call-center-ai
#HackerNews #Microsoft #AI #Call #Center #Voice #SMS #Memory #Technology
Russ Sharek
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I'm also looking for a singing voice coach who is reasonably trans and queer competent.
Is this you? Are you accepting new students? PM me?
I'm not presently looking to present my voice as any perceived gender, my voice is a woman's voice in whatever timbre I sing, but I do sing in roughly the tenor range.
I recently reached out to a few who advertise as such but haven't heard back as yet.
I'm also looking for a singing voice coach who is reasonably trans and queer competent.
Is this you? Are you accepting new students? PM me?
I'm not presently looking to present my voice as any perceived gender, my voice is a woman's voice in whatever timbre I sing, but I do sing in roughly the tenor range.
I recently reached out to a few who advertise as such but haven't heard back as yet.
Wu-Lee
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this is thi
six a clock
news thi
man said n
thi reason
a talk wia
BBC accent
iz coz yi
widny wahnt
mi ti talk
aboot thi
trooth wia
voice lik
wanna yoo
scruff. if
a toktaboot
thi trooth
lik wanna yoo
scruff yi
widny thingk
it wuz troo.
jist wanna yoo
scruff tokn.
—Tom Leonard, “The Six O’Clock News”
🎂 Tom Leonard, 22 Aug 1944
#Scottish #literature #poem #poetry#Glasgow #Glaswegian #voice#Scots#Scotslanguage#TomLeonard
this is thi
six a clock
news thi
man said n
thi reason
a talk wia
BBC accent
iz coz yi
widny wahnt
mi ti talk
aboot thi
trooth wia
voice lik
wanna yoo
scruff. if
a toktaboot
thi trooth
lik wanna yoo
scruff yi
widny thingk
it wuz troo.
jist wanna yoo
scruff tokn.
—Tom Leonard, “The Six O’Clock News”
🎂 Tom Leonard, 22 Aug 1944
#Scottish #literature #poem #poetry#Glasgow #Glaswegian #voice#Scots#Scotslanguage#TomLeonard
Tom Leonard reads “The Six O’Clock News”
🎂 Tom Leonard, 22 Aug 1944
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sZaxEbhibdw
#Scottish #literature #poem #poetry#Glasgow #Glaswegian #voice#Scots#Scotslanguage#TomLeonard
this is thi
six a clock
news thi
man said n
thi reason
a talk wia
BBC accent
iz coz yi
widny wahnt
mi ti talk
aboot thi
trooth wia
voice lik
wanna yoo
scruff. if
a toktaboot
thi trooth
lik wanna yoo
scruff yi
widny thingk
it wuz troo.
jist wanna yoo
scruff tokn.
—Tom Leonard, “The Six O’Clock News”
🎂 Tom Leonard, 22 Aug 1944
#Scottish #literature #poem #poetry#Glasgow #Glaswegian #voice#Scots#Scotslanguage#TomLeonard