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@gothpanda that's interesting and i'll take a look at it but i'm looking more for voice synthesizers than anything that uses recorded speech as a source

that could've been clearer in my first post

thank you

in fact i recall once finding the link to that compilation again at some point and finding out it got taken down

hopefully i'll get to listen to the MD again and make a proper tracklist of what was on it

some time around near 10 years ago or so when i first got a netmd player i bodged together some scripts to allow me to write minidiscs under linux (well before web-based, ugh, solutions made it "easier") and wrote a, i think 2 hour long or so, youtube citypop compilaion to a single LP2 MD

i can't find that particular compilation anymore and i'm separated from that MD by the atlantic ocean, which is a shame

yes the idea is to find voices that sound robotic, synthesized

i know that's not what most people using TTS want them to sound like, that's why it's so hard for me to find what i want

yes i already know about dectalk. i know there are many other TTS engines from the 80s and 90s and those all feel like vapourware now because you can't find anything on them anymore

i want recommendations for free text to speech interfaces like those used for speech impaired people (screens of icons for quick vocabulary, customizable, with option for full text input)

bonus points for something with a highly customizable voice, or also seeking recommendations for any tts voice that's local, customizable, not genAI, runs on old hardware. i don't want solutions that only work with the system's black box TTS i have to find arcane packs for

please boost! ​

TIL one form of CDDA copy protection is intentionally corrupted error correction codes causing audible glitches in ripped copies which explains a lot of MP3s i downloaded as a teenager sounding the way they did

@arielmt we revived a very cheap very shitty android tablet a few days ago by replacing the battery and the moment it turned on the boot noise sounded like it was about to blow out the speakers

in fact once we got into the system proper anything above the very lowest non-mute volume setting was deafening

@eltonfc i repaired a couple before i left brazil :)

there's something about "computers built by companies who wanted to use up their inventory of VCR chassis" that really appeals to me

lol @ this post not having an embed because my instance does not take remote webp media

QRT @kajer https://infosec.exchange/@kajer/115426518652685730

so much for communication, lmfao

saw something cool on another account and wanted to boost here but that's how i found out someone i never talked to has me blocked so whatever