Mastodawn

Heading down to the MIDI room to pull another file off the shelves.
Today's file: etglory.
Internal title: Heroes Of The Lost Valley～Eternal Glory.
A symphonic metal track. Starts out with an orchestral intro, with bird and water ambience in the background, which is the "Heroes Of The Lost Valley" section, then continues to "Eternal Glory," a faster metal track which is then finished with another orchestral solo.
Note that the MIDI is somewhat incomplete, it skips the narration section from the album and goes straight from "Heroes Of The Lost Valley" to "Eternal Glory," but it's otherwise complete.
Composed by Rhapsody of Fire, under their old name Rhapsody, and arranged by lantis.
MIDI: https://drive.google.com/uc?id=1J2_A-Ap3ovvVKJyKnwHRExmU5dPZ3Sdv.
Original LZH: https://web.archive.org/web/19990423214814if_/http://user.shikoku.ne.jp:80/nakami/mididata/toko/etglory.lzh.
Original song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6aX02uBJNjQ.

Jake Gross 5h ago

Jack-Frostodon 9h ago

Today saw the introduction of something ntruly worthy of celebration: a modern, 64bit, truly responsive formant-neural sapi voice for Windows. Today also saw the introduction of a recording that is based around the fact that that demo of the voice does actually downsample after a minute of audio. However, it does not do the impending craziness that I put it through before activating the license.

Jake Gross 5h ago

Kara Goldfinch 6h ago

I've just tried Blastbay Libby.
Initial thoughts. These voices are formant based and there's some sort of neural network. The really technical discussion on the forum lost me a bit. but the point is that they're designed to be similar to something like Eloquence, DECtalk, Orpheus etc with all the advantages you get from that kind of thing, rather than something really natural sounding. And for that, with a few niggles it does the job it's designed to.
My niggles are that commas, full stops and exclamation marks all sound the same, also there are no pauses or anything when reading text in parentheses.
Hopefully those will be dealt with.

Jake Gross 6h ago

Miakoda 7h ago

Something I'm seeing from some who voted Trump is "I didn't vote for this!".
Yes, you did. It might not be what you actually wanted but it is what you voted for, and it's important you recognize that. All the information was there, handed to you on platters by people begging you to listen. You proceeded anyway.
You did vote for this, all of this.

Jake Gross 6h ago

Col 5d ago

Your fingers have fingertips but your toes don’t have toetips, yet you can tiptoe but not tipfinger! 🤔

Jake Gross 6h ago

Thaqib 10h ago

***taken from audiogames.net forum***
Philip says: Hello all,

Blastbay Studios is proud to announce the release of our first US English text to speech voices for Windows. These voices work with both 32 and 64 bit versions of SAPI 5, and they are responsive enough to be used comfortably with screen readers and games.

When you download a voice, you can either install it as a trial, or unlock the full version if you own a serial number for it.

In trial mode, the voice will function normally for the first minute of audio that it generates. After this, the audio quality will be degraded and you will hear background noise. When you restart the application with which you are using the voice, the clock will reset and you will hear the normal output for an additional minute before it reverts back to the degraded quality mode.

Please note that the serial number that you receive when purchasing a voice is not tied to your hardware. This means that you can use it to activate the voice on as many of your own machines as you like, even machines without an Internet connection.

A common request from users has been support for a custom lexicon. The voices do have support for this, but we will be publishing a separate download with a user lexicon that will apply to all US English voices in the next few days.

Please visit www.blastbay.com to listen to audio samples and/or download the voices.

On a personal note, I would like to thank all of you who have given me feedback and encouragement throughout the development of these voices. It has meant a lot. I hope you enjoy testing the voices, and I look forward to your feedback!

Jake Gross 6h ago

lproven 8h ago

The OpenAI Files

https://www.openaifiles.org/

The OpenAI Files is the most comprehensive collection to date of documented concerns with governance practices, leadership integrity, and organizational culture at OpenAI.

The OpenAI Files

The OpenAI Files is the most comprehensive collection to date of documented concerns with governance practices, leadership integrity, and organizational culture at OpenAI.

Jake Gross 10h ago

Buffy Hartland 3d ago

A quote from a very good friend of mine. As long as you are living and breathing, you are on this earth for a reason. Everyone have the best day you can and please never ever forget, YOU MATTER.

Jake Gross 11h ago

404 Media 2d ago

40,000 Cameras, From Bird Feeders to Baby Monitors, Exposed to the Internet

🔗 https://www.404media.co/cameras-exposed-to-the-internet-report/

40,000 Cameras, From Bird Feeders to Baby Monitors, Exposed to the Internet

Tens of thousands of security cameras in businesses, CCTV cameras, and cameras from commonplace internet-connected devices were found vulnerable to dark web actors, a new report shows.

404 Media

Jake Gross 14h ago

Andre Louis 15h ago

#AudioMo Day 20: I've heard a few other chiming clock recordings posted, so here's mine from September of 2006. I put two small diaphragm mics inside my wall-clock and we get a very boxy inside recording of it striking 12.
HQ download: https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/hkww04sq4ji5hxhg3wye2/Clock-strikes-12.flac?rlkey=ly25g1fxrqppzoc9vef0c2zmo&dl=1