So, on my M1 mac, did `uvx pocket-tts serve`. Plugged in
> It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of
wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair, we had everything before us, we had nothing before us, we were all going direct to Heaven, we were all going direct the other way—in short, the period was so far like the present period, that some of its noisiest authorities insisted on its being received, for good or for evil, in the superlative degree of comparison only
(Beginning of Tale of Two Cities)
but the problem is Javert skips over parts of sentences! Eg, it starts:
> "It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of
wisdom, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair, we had everything before us, ..."
Notice how it skips over "it was the age of foolishness,", "it was the winter of despair,"
Which... Doesn't exactly inspire faith in a TTS system.
Big thumbs up to the Landmark Histories project (http://thelandmarkancienthistories.com/). Excellent production value making reading these histories much more managable -- you're 100% right on the frequent maps and good appendixes.
Would also be interesting to see if this is a Java issue, or a JVM implementation issue: ie, does an OpenJ9 based JVM (Available under the weird IBM Semeru name here [1]) have similar behaviour?
Yeah, I posted a blog post [1] that explains my motivation in curating this list. Seeing the broad range of companies that do this kind of work was really helpful early in my career.
I think it's possible to join the compilers field with no previous experience if you can find the right team willing to mentor. Best would be for you to have adjacent skills that are valuable to the team; things like domain expertise, low level programming skill, or hardware knowledge.
Everyone starts somewhere. It's not the easiest thing, but I think can be done.
I also find Javert in particular seems to put in huge gaps and spaces... side effect of the voice?