Narrator

It's been a while since I worked on KoboldAI models but that does not mean I have been busy behind the scenes. One of my goals my the "bucket list" is to have an AI give a TED talk, most likely about questioning the philosophy of an AI being a "sentient being". COVID and all other things pushed this to the back of my head, but it recently got back thanks to someone who pointed me to the InMoov project, which I loved, but I felt like it lacked the open-source ability that I needed (for example the ability to alter parts to my liking).

To make sure that the robot functions the way I want it to, I consider AI to be the most important part of this process. We already created a "robot", with its input and output, but I want to expand on this. Because of the mentioning of the InMoov, I came across one of my old projects: A project aimed at listening to someone and responding to that person. It used an old version of KoboldAI and was more like a chatbot without a proper brain, but the way it was built was pretty simple: You have a speech recognition part, a "brain" (in my case blenderbot) and a TTS (Microsoft Cortana). Just recently I found a new TTS that is not only more humanoid than everything I heard before, but it's also a really good example of how humanoid TTS actually can be.

A couple of things that I noticed, the most noticeable one of them, is that the implementation is really slow... So, I cannot simply use it for KoboldAI. The quality however is really good, and I think I might use it in combination with something like Tacotron to generate samples to finetune a KoboldAI voice. However, if you think you have a wonderful voice and like to be a narrator for KoboldAI, let me know. I might spin up a common-voice server where people can literally "donate" their voice. I do need to say that this is purely "experimental" and that it's not the goal for now.

Regarding the new 13B models, I found a treasure trove full of fan fiction, which I am currently combing through, to see if I can make a blend of fanfiction, Janeway and some Shinen. I feel like making coffee with an AI.