I can't find anything about this from googling - but, does anyone know/have any good sources on how the TikTok text-to-speech narration was developed, specifically the voice inputs* that were used to develop it?
*Prob not the right term - I mean, I think, the training data that informs the sound of the synthetic voice output
Marjorie Tayor Greene claimed 9/11 did not happen --now the GOP has put her on the Homeland Security Committee. Today's GOP is a threat to our nation's safety! https://www.mediamatters.org/congress/qanon-candidate-marjorie-taylor-greene-911-conspiracy-theorist-who-claimed-theres-no
Okay. Migrated from masthead.social to mastodon.social. Meanwhile, here's the Substack on my decision to leave Twitter.
Let's put it bluntly: the Democratic Governor of New York can't team up with MAGA to push her conservative nominee through the Senate by suing her own party and attacking her own base. It simply can't happen. #LaSalle
"What is the city today, for us? I believe that I have written something like a last love poem addressed to the city, at a time when it is becoming increasingly difficult to live there. It looks, in-deed, as if we are approaching a period of crisis in urban life; and Invisible Cities is like a dream born out of the heart of the unlivable cities we know."
RT @RonFilipkowski@twitter.com
George reportedly stole the GoFundMe money raised to remove a stomach tumor from a disabled vet’s dog. The dog died. New member of the House Small Business Committee, from your 2023 Republican Party! https://patch.com/new-york/oysterbay/disabled-veteran-george-santos-took-3k-dying-dogs-gofundme
🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/RonFilipkowski/status/1615502603382845440
Revealed: more than 90% of rainforest carbon offsets by biggest provider are worthless, analysis shows
I never believed in offsets anyway. It's like trying foist your debt onto someone else's credit card. #climatechange #climate #politics
This is not "one lone senator submitting a crazy bill" anymore, and I want to confront that line of logic early.
We are now at 7 states with proposed drag bans.
Most have multiple sponsors.
This bill has 4 senate sponsors.
“Someone with a 1-hr car commute needs to earn 40% more to be as happy as someone with a short walk to work. On the other hand, if someone shifts from a long commute to a walk, their happiness increases as much as if they’d fallen in love.” #CityMakingMath
Just one of 50 reasons why everyone should want more walkable streets. In Fast Company Magazine.
https://www.fastcompany.com/3062989/50-reasons-why-everyone-should-want-more-walkable-streets
37 years ago, there were 50 companies in charge of most American media
Today,90% of the media in the U.S is controlled by just 6 corporations,
Bloomberg, Hearst, Newhouse, Murdoch, and Ochs-Sulzberger,plus various billionaires.
Now includes elon musk..
There's always an agenda
#thinkingcap
Grand Prismatic Spring at #Yellowstone
This hot spring -- is the largest in the US and third-largest in the world -- runs at an average of 160ºF.
Read more about this beautiful hot spring @ https://fullsuitcase.com/grand-prismatic-spring-yellowstone/
Photo credit Ignacio Palacios
#Google street view: https://goo.gl/maps/88H2w9ym5EwcBQYu9
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