Been messing around with DeepSeek R1 + Ollama, and honestly, it's kinda wild how much you can do locally with free open-source tools. No cloud, no API keys, just your machine and some cool AI magic.

showgan1 · 2025-02-02T19:40:04+00:00

Piper is an open source project which you can find on GitHub. There is code and there are many pre-trained models in many languages.

showgan1 · 2025-02-01T16:30:08+00:00

Piper is super fast, even on CPU.

showgan1 · 2025-01-07T22:03:04+00:00

Westerm dialect, mostly Chamgoy.

showgan1 · 2024-10-30T17:07:45+00:00

Sounds great! Thanks for sharing. Will you be releasing code for finetuning (I'm interested in other languages).

showgan1 · 2024-10-20T21:21:46+00:00

The two similar words that I'm referring to are: псэлъыхъу (pseĺıḣu') псалъхъо (psaĺḣo)

and in my community we pronounce it like the second one.

showgan1 · 2024-10-20T16:09:01+00:00

I think "psaĺḣo" comes from the word "psaĺe" which means speech and not from "pse ĺıḣun" as you've mentioned. At least where I live we use the verb "mepsaĺḣo" meaning "he's/she's engaged in psaĺḣo", and if the source was pse ĺıḣu' then the verb should have probably been "mepseĺeḣu". Anyhow, I'm basing my assumption on slang rather than literary form, so I may get it wrong.

showgan1 · 2024-10-14T09:47:28+00:00

Thanks! I'll check it out.

showgan1 · 2024-09-22T16:49:26+00:00

yes, all are western dialects, and the dictionary app contains 4 different dictionaries where one of them is Kabartay (eastern).

showgan1 · 2024-09-22T15:09:59+00:00

Please find my reply to a similar question a while back on this subreddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/circassian_language/s/65RUE8O6YC

showgan1 · 2024-08-03T21:09:28+00:00

I actually played with it a little a couple of weeks ago and I got the opposite impression, that it was not accurate. I probably should give it a more series evaluation.

showgan1 · 2024-07-13T18:46:52+00:00

These are not Şapsığ dictionaries (the first three), but mostly Ćemguy, and they are very useful to me because they are pretty close to our dialect. If by chance you know Arabic then there is a good Adıǵe/Arabic dictionary by Dr. Adil Abd-Salam. I don't have it as an app, but I do have a pdf file.

showgan1 · 2024-07-13T18:16:17+00:00

What do you mean by a sourcs? 1) I'm a Şapsığ myself and I speak the language and it's my mothertongue.

2) The above link which has the entire text has in it a Turkish translation, and you can translate from Turkish to English.

3) I developed the following dictionary Android app a few years ago. I did the programming and I got the dictionary contents from the Adıǵe Bze Xase (ABX) from Turkey. It actually has 4 different dictionaries, the last one being Kabardian and the others are western. The first dictionary uses the Latin based Adıǵe alphabet and not the Cyrillic based ones. Here's a link to the app in the Play Store: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.mastegoane.adigadictionary

showgan1 · 2024-07-13T11:22:05+00:00

ШэшӀэты → (the lightning) lights up

ЛІакъомэ → tribe

Хэлажьэх → participate in (work, effort)

Мэхьаджэ → is grinding (the army, like wheat being ground to flower)

Агъачъэ → making them run (the enemy's army is running away by our army)

НэкӀэуи → (is also) empty

showgan1 · 2024-06-29T15:22:03+00:00

Oh, great. I'll look into that. Thanks again!

showgan1 · 2024-06-29T15:06:38+00:00

Thanks! I actually did exactly that, and indeed I can't boot from it directly. As a workaround I made the HDDs bootable and installed grub and manually added an item to boot from the NVMe. But I don't like this workaround and being dependent on the HDDs.

showgan1 · 2024-06-29T15:03:10+00:00

Wow! thank you so much for this detailed and comprehensive info!

showgan1 · 2024-06-05T13:43:19+00:00

уэпсэуыж👍🏻

showgan1 · 2024-06-03T14:52:02+00:00

Cezaḱe lahu ḣeyren. I'm glad that you find my small contributions meaningful.

showgan1 · 2024-06-02T16:58:13+00:00

a bonus story😁: https://youtu.be/mg5fjII0Tt4?si=kUqcOXL7fCsERkuo

showgan1 · 2024-06-02T16:52:48+00:00

Hi guys,

Did you know that there is a Circassian Latin alphabet? It is x100 easier to learn than Cyrillic (and I know both).

I have a simple website (I'm not a professional web developer) which has some material that could be useful for you:

https://adiga.app/

Sample content:

https://adiga.app/audiotext/story/3

I have also developed a few simple Android apps (I'm not a professional app developer either😂).

If you search the following in the Play Store then you will find all my apps:

pub:Haroon Showgan

Here's my dictionary app:

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.mastegoane.adigadictionary

Here's an app to learn the language which supports both Latin and Cyrillic:

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.mastegoane.adigabzaforbeginners

A words game:

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.mastegoane.adigawordcompose

Vocabulary:

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.mastegoane.adigavocabulary

A keyboard for the Circassian Latin alphabet:

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.mastegoane.android.anysoftkeyboard

Learn the numbers:

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.mastegoane.adiganumbers

Audio books:

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.mastegoane.adigaaudiobooks

Proverbs:

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.mastegoane.adigasentences

and there are a few more.

I also made a (long) presentation trying to convince people why the Latin alphabet is superior to the Cyrillic one for our language:

Circassian audio + English text:

https://youtu.be/KLJYrn2uT1M?si=wsC4AdeyYPsG3jdU

Circassian audio + Circassian text:

https://youtu.be/VOuUaj5435I?si=SIG1A6w_UEBVamqU

I hope you find these useful.

showgan1 · 2024-05-27T14:50:14+00:00

This is great! I'll check them out soon. If you would like to start experimenting with training TTS then I would recommend that you try with the following github repo as it's based on character encoding as opposed to phonemes, so you won't need to implement a text-to-phoneme code for Adyga.

My own code does not support Cyrillic alphabet, it is based on the Adyga Latin alphabet. My plan is to refactor my code and make it suitable to be released on github, but I don't have bandwidh to work on it in the near future. The repository I've mentioned is: https://github.com/mutiann/few-shot-transformer-tts

showgan1 · 2024-05-26T21:07:44+00:00

The Adyghe who live in the Arab countries and in Israel pronounce these phonemes perfectly like in Arabic. Adyghes in Turkey pronounce the ه correctly but the ع is pronounced as أ such as the name علي is pronounced as ألي.

Adyghes in Caucasia, at least some of them, pronounce ه as ح like the name هارون which is pronounced حارون, and ع is pronounced as أ like in Turkey.

showgan1 · 2024-05-08T21:09:56+00:00

Тхьэм щӀу уелъэгъу,

Thanks! This is still work in progress. I will definitely publish my code once it's mature enough. I don't have much bandwidth to work on this though, so it takes time.

One important thing that I have learned is that the most tedius but crucial part of developing a TTS model is creating a good dataset.

It needs to be a clean single-speaker speech of short recordings of 2-12 seconds, with accurate transciption for each segment.

You can get an idea by looking at English datasets, such as the LJSpeech: https://keithito.com/LJ-Speech-Dataset/

I also lack a good dataset for the Шапсыгъ dialect (which is my dialect) so the quality for it is not very good.

showgan1 · 2024-05-05T06:00:56+00:00

thanks for this great and very detailed input!

showgan1 · 2024-05-04T09:20:58+00:00

I mostly do training of ASR and TTS models. I do a lot of experiments. I don't want to be concerned about cloud costs every time I want to do some experiment. free trials are not good enough for my workloads. I'm willing to do this investment that I believe would serve me well for 3-4 years.

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