There is a dolphin language model project from Google and Georgia Tech: https://blog.google/technology/ai/dolphingemma/

That's exactly the kind of thing I was hoping people were working on!

As far as I understand, the MMS TTS models are trained from scratch (section 7.1 of [1]), they do not employ any SSL models. So the OmniASR SSL models are not useful here.

What might be interesting is the newly released OmniASR data, because the MMS data, which was used for the MMS TTS, was never released.

Also, the OmniASR can be used to transcribe some untranscribed speech to train a TTS on it.

[1] MMS paper: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2305.13516

You’re completely right, I misremembered. I edited my post.

How is/was the data written to disks? Something like rsync/netcat?

We use the same nginx rust server to do file writes, it's done via web requests

Probably a mix-up with the recently released Huawei model:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44441447

What is the motivation to move startup from Canada to Germany, if I may ask?

I would be interested to see this reproducibility study.

Could this (or something similar) be found in public access/some libraries?

There is only a single paper that has published a similar derivation but with a critical mistake. To be fair there are many documented examples of how to derive parametric relationships in linkages and can be quite methodical. I think I could get Gemini or 3.5 to do it but not single shot/ultra fast like here.

Telegram?

Doesn't moving air help evaporation anyhow?

If evaporation is possible, yes.

The infrastructure problem should also have a relatively cheap technical solution. I assume the major bottleneck is bureaucracy, which largely has no technical workarounds so far.

It's not a problem of bureaucracy, but rather efficiency. Urban centers emerge because they make sense - grouping together labor, production, and consumption. If we just equally distribute people across the country our economy would implode on itself. How do you get to work? Where do you work? Where does your work go once you've worked on it? Who buys your work? And what work do you buy?

I'm not going to build a doctors office, or a train, or a corner store next to 10 people. I'm gonna build it next to 100,000 people. And now here we are, where we have space but not really because most of the space is worthless.

There are plenty of thriving towns in America with 5k-10k people. I think you need to just get out more. I grew up in one and it was fine. I now live in a slightly larger city (in the low hundred thousands) and enjoy the low cost of living with a high salary. But I'd never live in a major metro area, that's nuts.

> There are plenty of thriving towns in America with 5k-10k people

Very, very few. Rural areas are disproportionately impoverished. It's just statistical, not personal, and it makes complete sense once you consider what an economy is.

> But I'd never live in a major metro area, that's nuts

Those major metro areas make up the vast majority of the US' economic prowess. You don't have to live in them of course, but you should be aware that the American suburbs and rural areas are essentially on the welfare of more economically successful areas.