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What would Alan Watts say if he were here with us today?

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What would Alan Watts say if he were here with us today?

“This is the real secret of life -- to be completely engaged with what you are doing in the here and now. And instead of calling it work, realize it is play.”

Goal

Alan Watts' synthesized voice over an autogenerated text sample about the state of the modern world.

Data/Labels

Alan Watts' lectures, essays, and books

Phase I - Voice Synthesis

  1. Process data (denoise, remove silent parts, etc.)
  2. Split recordings into audio clips
  3. Auto transcribe
  4. Create metadata files
  5. Train Tacotron 2
  6. Train Waveglow
  7. Evaluate

Phase II - Text Generation

  1. Process data
  2. Trim and combine
  3. Set up a Colab
  4. Train using aitextgen
  5. Evaluate

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