Meanwhile USA surpases G7 in GPTGDP growth

✨ Supervoice

I have published results of last two months of work, the Supervoice - natural sounded voice synthesis using modern SOTA architectures, trained from scratch. It is beta because: it doesn't work for large sentences, it doesn't support number literals (you have to write them using letters) and it works only with english (but i have explored options of training other languages and nothing really stops to do so, except less data). Almost anyone can run it anywhere where you can install pytorch and torchaudio (no other dependencies).

https://github.com/ex3ndr/supervoice

Я думал будет застой в политической жизни, а путин опять взрывает дома.

В один день:
- Письков говорит что россия воюет с украиной (впервые)
- Через 5 часов появляются первые уведомления что начали рассылать электронные повестки в москве
- Вечером (москвы) терракт

Ну да ну да, чистая случайность.

Кстати заходите в наш чатик - https://t.me/founders_chat

Remember there were app Amo, by Zenly founders?

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Dataset with phoneme-aligned librilight datasets for voice training at scale.

Dataset has almost 60k hours of english audio in 2TB Tar file, which i have processed with whisper and then aligned with MFA.

I am planning to train a base model for voice processing using this dataset and then finetune it to provide high quality voice, diarization and voice enhancement models. May be you will find it useful too!

https://github.com/ex3ndr/supervoice-dataset/

Recently i tried to login to my Heroku account and it wasn't working. I was paying like $100/mo for zero users. No notification, no explanation, account is still running i just doesn't have an access to it.

God i hate clouds.

One of the biggest news for startups in US: non-compete agreements are no longer valid for anyone in US!

https://x.com/unusual_whales/status/1782853997164130591?s=46&t=A1zE0kfmZyf1QVe55CmQQA

The Flutter community on X is super annoying. They smash half-backed solutions and then start to scream how React Native is bad. Last humorous example is the OTA updates, which bypasses appstore review and allows you to update you app instantly. What's the fun part? It will be 100x slower (literaly stated in docs).

And today we got:
https://www.reddit.com/r/FlutterDev/s/l67wYdcGq6

Already jailbroken
https://www.youtube.com/@chainedtears/shorts

Looking for product-focused cofounder

I have decided to change my strategy and started to look for a product co-founder, not a business one.

I have figured out that business part can be learned, but product one cannot.

I don’t believe that any venture can figure out what they are actually doing in a first two years, you will be a very lucky to make it sooner. Therefore I will define what I am interested in, not the something too specific.

I think it is possible to launch a new product that focuses only on tech (founders?) form mostly Bay Area. Right now I am working on a mobile app for open source AI wearables. What I have found that it is possible to capture everyday experiences of people and put it to the app. Also right now many people (here) are very open to try new cheap hardware much easier than just an app. I don’t see the need to focus on other markets for next year or two since people a too sceptical right now out of bay’ bubble.

What is everyone in AI in Bay Area are missing is the good product. Customers are ready to pay, a lot of investors are ready to invest. But it seems no one has a taste anymore and all MVPs are in fact too broken, too shallow or does not deliver.

I think community here have a good MVPs, but they all need a strong product.

My app is here: https://getbubble.org

What it is doing is building a feed of your experiences, right now (except basic product things) it is quite expensive to run (~2$ per day per user), but this could be solved.

Unfortunately I can’t focus on both tech and product!

Therefore if someone knows anyone please, share this post with them!

gm