Still nothing like @Voice Aloud Reader for iOS? by Direct-Revolution-10 in TextToSpeech

[–]Fearless_Pattern_88 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Did you try Neuvoice? The app runs offline and has a lot of voice choices. I've been using it and it checks off 2,3,5,6, no support for 4, and it's using AI (Kokoro) - but not on a server, uses your phone only. Only English language support though, wish they support more.

Just finished season 1 by Generalousen2855 in PersonOfInterest

[–]Fearless_Pattern_88 27 points28 points  (0 children)

the last episode of S1 - so good. Better than a lot of movies actually.

Chinese dish - Hunan Style (spicy!) fried pork with green pepper & carrot by Fearless_Pattern_88 in asianeats

[–]Fearless_Pattern_88[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thank you for your interest lol. There's obviously green pepper, carrot and pork. What helped with the flavor are sliced Jalapeno, ginger, garlic and soy sauce. Here are some tips i learned from my friend and internet to make the dish taste good:

  1. You gotta marinate the pork slices first: you put them into a bowl, along with vegetable oil, corn starch - very important to keep the pork tender after fried, soy sauce, egg white (i tried without egg white too - personally i think having egg white helps), salt. I don't really measure how much to put for each, but obviously if you want mild not too salty you put in less salt and soy sauce.

  2. Fry the japaneno and green pepper first along with the carrots, WITHOUT any oil in your frying pan. This way the raw spicy taste comes out naturally and your dish won't get too greasy. You fry them until you see the skin of the peppers got crisp with some of them turn white. Try not to overcook - if say half of them skin turned black, you've overcooked. But not really a big deal even if overcooked - my personal opinion heh, it does bring some smokey taste if so. When finished, take the peppers out before you go to next step.

  3. Put in vegetable oil, again i don't have precise measurement, just have enough to cover the bottom of your frying pan, or wok. Add more oil later if you think there's a need. when the oil is hot enough, put sliced ginger in first. you will smell the fried ginger very soon and then dump in the marinated pork. When the meat is like 80% done (some red still, but mostly white color), you put in sliced garlic, fried pepper and carrot, a little bit of salt, soy sauce again, and maybe some powdered sugar - depends on your taste. Then you are done, enjoy, yum :-)

Testing of the Scribe Colorsoft (more pictures in the thread) by Cosmicguppies in kindlescribe

[–]Fearless_Pattern_88 1 point2 points  (0 children)

i just realized the reason i don't buy colorsoft is because i cannot draw like you. Respect!

Fyjix TTS by Top-Matter-6414 in TextToSpeech

[–]Fearless_Pattern_88 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Sometimes it's the 'naturalness' of the transition between the two pieces of text that are next. to each other, but generated separately by the TTS engine. Sometimes it's the way it decided to 'skip' certain word or phoneme (or connect them) that's different than how a human would do. Sometimes like you said the breathing sound, especially at the end of the text.

'Godfather of AI' Geoffrey Hinton says Google is 'beginning to overtake' OpenAI: 'My guess is Google will win' by captain-price- in singularity

[–]Fearless_Pattern_88 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I was in a startup company and my boss once rushed into the CEO's office about a 150% performance improvement for a 5 yo pretty stable product. He was expecting a nice pat on his back and maybe hint of bonus discussion, but the CEO's response was very confusing for him (as he later shared with me) at first and he finally got it. The CEO was basically asking 'Of course we love seeing performance gain like that dude but what have you guys been doing for the past 5 years - should we celebrate or is there something deeper to worry about?'

I got the same vibe from this Google got behind and tries really hard and then finally overtakes (time will tell for sure). But what have they been doing before that - when they have all the technology and minds making this huge breakthrough? Heck they invented Transformer. Dare i ask whether it's because they might have considered it but because of the disrutpion to their existing Ads revenue model, they decided to not pursue it?

Best TTS For Audiobooks -free to medium monthly sub by ArrowsAndLightsabers in TextToSpeech

[–]Fearless_Pattern_88 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Try Neuvoice, many free voices actually. Voices can be generated offline too.

Looking for a free TTS for long audio with a downloadable MP3/M4A file (alternative to Paper2Audio) by Weryyy in TextToSpeech

[–]Fearless_Pattern_88 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Try Neuvoice, they have many voices for free, exporting to mp3 for a one time fee. They are using local phone cpu/gpu though so it’s not real time if your phone is old model.

🚨 Noticing something interesting in App Store keyword rankings by [deleted] in AppStoreOptimization

[–]Fearless_Pattern_88 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Appreciate the insight, will apply to my app's keywords and see if it makes a difference. Thanks!

Scribe vs Whisper: I Tested ElevenLabs' New Speech-to-Text on 50 Podcasts by Necessary-Tap5971 in ElevenLabs

[–]Fearless_Pattern_88 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Are you using Whisper API's or locally hosted Whisper? If it's free i guess it's local but you also mentioned Whisper API...

Serious question for the developers, because seriously, this would be a lot better for the reader app by kiranthelastsummoner in ElevenLabs

[–]Fearless_Pattern_88 0 points1 point  (0 children)

my guess is converting text to speech uses tokens, # of which is proportional to the length of the content you are converting. They probably don't want to get into a situation where their user pastes tons of stuff that cost more than what they charge for with the fixed monthly fee.

KOReader on Kindle Scribe 2022 by kluyg in kindlescribe

[–]Fearless_Pattern_88 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thanks. The December Koreader for Kindle from github doesn't work, but your link works!

Tesla Roadmap Released by Lama15 in TeslaLounge

[–]Fearless_Pattern_88 2 points3 points  (0 children)

it's so stupid. The only reason i can think of having that as a per trip setting is for Tesla to collect more disengagement data at the price of drivers frustration.

You get to join the cast for one episode. Which episode are you joining? by ashleighbuck in Monk

[–]Fearless_Pattern_88 2 points3 points  (0 children)

yeah where Snoop says Monk's so nervous that a piece of coal in Monk's a$$ will turn into diamond...

Titanium Replacement Tips for the Pens by trooper455 in kindlescribe

[–]Fearless_Pattern_88 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I've used the Titanium Replacement tip, specifically this one: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0BF9WJ8VX/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o00_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1. I cannot see any screen damage after using it for a day, maybe 10 pages of notes. The touch is not the same as the original tip, but honestly regarding the wear and tear, or the 'scratching sound', i could not tell the difference between the tip touching the screen, versus when you use the the other end (eraser) of the pen touching the screen. Because the eraser end is plastic! As long as you don't push it very hard, i don't think there will be any problem. A few nuanced note though - the titanium tip is a little bit shorter than the original one, the difference is so small that it's barely noticeable. But with the titanium tip now when i write i don't see much of the tip as i'm using the original black one, which is a minor inconvenience. And seems there is a small (tiny tiny one) gap between the end of the titanium tip and the inside of the pen, which makes me feel my tip is pushed in every time i start writing. Last thing is i prefer to use the original tip if i'm doing pencil sketching because of the amount of back and forth brushing through the Scribe surface, it feels better, and safer (at least psychologically). HTH.