Comment: Morning explorations of phonemes
Transcript: So I just ate lunch and had a chicken bake and some cheese. And the morning time was mostly spent on trying to get phonemes out of the existing Piper model. And yeah, it doesn't look like it's super easy. You know, the model basically outputs. It's not like there's a deterministic time where the phonemes generate. You know, like this phoneme isn't going to generate the same thing every time. So as a result of this, kind of, yeah, I don't know. The output is kind of just what it is for now. And like, that's just how it's going to be. Like without training a model, like I don't know how this is done. I mean, there's some other hacky ways to get it done, like calling to another model, like WAV to VEC to phoneme. But yeah, like this problem needs to be more well-defined and then we could probably build something for it. But until then, yeah, I want to spend some time on some other problems.
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