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Ok so. The story so far:

  • Late December I have an idea for a kinda-funny Web Art project I could make. It would require me to be able to "tokenize" a 4 hour video by word, that is, I'd need timestamps of the beginning of each word.
  • I assume this means using a text-to-speech library.
  • However, I don't want to use software that runs not-on-my-computer, or which is made by methods I consider unethical. This means using only old discontinued libraries, since all new ones are cloud-based. (1/3)
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  • In January, I try using "PocketSphinx". This is an old, discontinued speech-recognition library by CMU. It runs for six hours and forty minutes and produces extremely low quality output. https://cohost.org/mcc/post/4147939-hbomberguy I decide it's not good enough for what I'm doing.
  • Today, I come back to this, and try running "DeepSpeech", an old, discontinued library by Mozilla. After much DLL hell, I get it to run. It runs for seventeen minutes and produces no output. None at all. (2/3)
mcc, to random
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Today, in poorly considered UI messages:

"Loaded model in 1.43e+02s"

mcc, to random
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I would like to suggest you watch the part of this Commodore 64 demo from 5:06 on

https://youtu.be/9RVLPgfkXb4?t=306

mcc,
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@falken i like cube

whitequark, to random
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none of these words are in the bible

mcc,
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@whitequark tries actually looking in the Bible ahem https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Job%2030%3A15%2D17&version=NIV

mcc, to random
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This is yuri to me https://mastodon.gamedev.place/@lritter/112445486017734742

mcc, (edited ) to random
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If a program says it wants CUDA 10 can I get away with installing CUDA 12 or does CUDA 10 mean "CUDA 10 exactly"

It's specifically asking for "cudart64_101.dll"

mcc,
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NVIDIA: To convince you to buy our video cards and not AMDs, we're going to create high-quality support libraries which are exclusive to our GPUs.

ME: Okay, I bought an Nvidia card. Can I download these fancypants helper libraries now

NVIDIA: Welcome, traveler. Such wares we have… but first you must solve our labyrinth

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I wonder which is the worse possibility… that NVidia Omnisphere can't install these libraries for me, or that NVidia Omniworld can install the libraries and I'm over here fighting with the website anyway

mcc,
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@swelljoe Don't worry— I've got a linux laptop with an AMD chipset and it is giving me so many troubles

mcc,
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CUDA 10 installer is offhandedly mentioning that "overwrites the current display driver". Cannot wait to find out what horrible dll hell consequences I'm setting myself up for in about a year by clicking "OK"

mcc,
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@darkling Good name for it

mcc,
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Oh. I … oh. Oh

mcc,
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@filenine In the final pane there was a tiny note hidden at the bottom of a long scroll indicating it refused to install the display driver because there was already a newer one installed. Which, good, but why'd they have to scare me like that :(

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@ramsey apparently ?!?

not pictured: before entering this screen you have to select if you want CUDA 10.0, 10.1, 10.2, 11.0, or 12.0

mcc,
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It said it couldn't find "cudart64_101.dll" so I I installed CUDA 10.2 and that didn't work so I realized "_101" might mean 10.1 so I uninstalled it and installed CUDA 10.1 and it still didn't work and then I closed my cmd.exe window and opened a new one and now it works, and I wonder if CUDA 10.2 would have worked if I'd stuck with that one. On the other hand, CUDA 10.2's installer claimed it had failed to install about 50% of its components and 10.1 gave no errors, so… I know nothing.

mcc,
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@ale scratches head I'm on Windows. I thought Docker was Linux. Can a Linux docker image running on a Windows machine actually make use of the video card?

mcc,
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@anyprophet oh no

mcc, to random
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Note: My Python version/packaging problems from earlier actually got worse after my last post on the subject, I just decided to stop posting updates because it was making me too sad

mcc,
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@ohmrun I ran into this problem and I found the solution was to use "pipx" which is a special kind of pip that installs the packages in a weird way that works around Ubuntu's pip hobbling, but also it does not require you to set up a venv. It just works like pip.

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Somebody should make an OS-agnostic program that searches the hard drive and returns a count of how many versions of Python you have installed

mcc,
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@jleedev if you want a substitute reason to dunk on Google Cloud, they refused to let me delete my account unless I agreed to the service T&Cs first

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Thinking about how Mozilla is "pivoting to AI" but DeepSpeech, one of the very few "AI" products you could possibly find a positive use for (pure-local speech recognition), is not only a Mozilla product but so abandoned that you actually have to downgrade to Python 3.9 to run it

mcc,
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@depereo I am concerned by the extent to which they keep abandoning the well-thought-out programs they do make to chase new trends

mcc,
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@actualwitch That's very interesting, but this appears to be a text-to-speech library, whereas deepspeech is a speech-to-text library?

mcc,
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@melanie @dragonfrog People love to say this while hitting me on the head with a shovel

mcc,
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@fabrice @actualwitch I see. Do I read correctly that all the stuff Coqui leaves behind is text to speech, not speech recognition?

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