KarlLimbo

joined 1 year ago
[–] KarlLimbo@lemmy.world 3 points 7 months ago

@ikidd@lemmy.world pointed me to piperTTS and i ended up with a python virtual enviroment, pip install piper-tts and de_DE-thorsten-high.onnx+json to be able to run echo "{{ $json.state}}" | piper -m ./de_DE-thorsten-high.onnx -f voice.wav && aplay voice.wav

and indeed that sounds much better than pico and espeak

[–] KarlLimbo@lemmy.world 3 points 7 months ago (1 children)
[–] KarlLimbo@lemmy.world 1 points 7 months ago (2 children)

my use case is that n8n sshs into a remote machine with low specs and a connected speaker to read out information sent from n8n so i can do stuff like: pico2wave -l de-DE -w /tmp/warn.wav "Es ist {{ $json.Hour }} Uhr." && aplay /tmp/warn.wav And as you might have guess by now german language would be appreciated. I'm not going to run any additional docker containers for voice generation or invoke remote services. also the speaker is as dirt cheap as the rest of the setup so any output from espeak was basically killing my eardrums.

 

so i yes, espeak exists and still sounds terrible even worse than picoTTS (last update 4 yrs ago?). so what else is there? i look at mimic3 and it says they are dead and one should go for piper here: https://github.com/MycroftAI/mimic3 the link to piper followed I get: https://github.com/rhasspy/piper "This repository was archived by the owner on Oct 6, 2025. It is now read-only. "

ok, so coqui? https://github.com/coqui-ai/TTS no update in over 12 months..how bad can it be? https://coqui.ai/ ...great it is a page for gambling now.

so, what are you using? gTTS is not offline.

[–] KarlLimbo@lemmy.world 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

while borgbackup is superior I'd like to hear your thoughts on that whole restic thing, e.g. backrest.

[–] KarlLimbo@lemmy.world 8 points 8 months ago

i am using https://freedns.afraid.org/ for over a decade now and problems occured less than 5 times over that period. all others i ever tried were worse over time.

[–] KarlLimbo@lemmy.world 1 points 8 months ago

in time before the release of "Anno 117" but too early for jokes in this imbecile community.

[–] KarlLimbo@lemmy.world 1 points 9 months ago

they are westerners...so sure they get their own title. but mali, pfff....thats a DLC. maybe posdts need to be shittier for this sub.

[–] KarlLimbo@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

true. but man it was late so like at the worst time... just hate it so much when that happens.

[–] KarlLimbo@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago (2 children)

borking your system using a terminal is just a right of passage

I'll borrow that mate!

[–] KarlLimbo@lemmy.world 37 points 1 year ago (7 children)

apk del --purge $(apk info -R | awk '{print $1}')

(1/243) Purging alpine-base (3.16.9-r0)

(2/243) Purging alpine-baselayout (3.2.0-r23)

(3/243) Purging alpine-baselayout-data (3.2.0-r23)

(4/243) Purging apk-tools (2.12.9-r3)

....

it took me that time to restore the system ...obviously not being able to boot it anymore. i feel deeply ashamed.

[–] KarlLimbo@lemmy.world 21 points 1 year ago (1 children)

it was late. i "thought" i might free up space inside that alpine lxc. i wasnt. i just like a moran wiped all the apps. then went to bed. i cant even recall what i thought would prevent this from destroying everything. at least it wasnt a closed OS...that would have cost me 51yrs.

 

:-( brain didnt work.

 

Dumbness is the core value here:

Refactor code with Copilot because you dont understand. Bam, "successfull" vibecoder.

Ask questions like "why has rainbow colors?" or whatever joe rogan said...bam "podcaster"/influencer.

None of them has contributed to the advancement of humanity; instead, they are the loudest grunting in herds.

 

again. and again they screw it up.What a piece of shit software this has become? Everything, seriously... the design is a waste of whitespace - this has not been designed but forced on humans by unhuman devs that are sick.

Thunderturd also decides if a plugin is compatible or not but this has gotten out of hand because ppl develop plugins in their spare time and these assholes at TB expect ppl to work for them for free. Fuck Thunderbird and the people behind it. Like anything Moz touched! Mozilla is the EA of web.

Constant mocking by the devs: "Your plugin has been deactivated" and offer a button "search for alternatives" well knowing there arent any.

The number of plugins for TB will decrease because of the decisions made by ppl that work on thunderbird. The quality of the plugins will decrease as so often proven by the TB devs - threaded view is a stolen idea they fucked up.

This is the equivalent of a dictatorship. Person 1 invents a nice plugin, moz devs are butt hurt, steal function claiming it is beneficial if it is part of the core app. that is a lie! fuck those devs.

feel free to downvote, ban or whatever...this is an echochamber that has proven over and over again that any criticism is met with downvotes and yet thunderbird has not gotten better at any point in time! if you are using thunderbird in 2025 you are sick and pathetic.

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