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so I timed each chiming of the "8" bell to a further 'stoopening' of the TTS into dysfunction. by the 6th one, it begins trying to say "666 s8n".
the bell, of course, chimes 8 times.
all of the non-TTS sounds from this are derived from the "I broke IKEA." voicemail, run through DSP, paulstretch, and then re-encoded to µ-Law 8192hz for "that authentic telephone feel". Even the dissonant choir bit came from the voicemail.
None of the 666 stuff was prompted - that was coming from the TTS engine fully losing context window and doing what 'AI' does best. :)
@petterroea @catsalad @internetarchive oh I have no qualms with what cohost is doing, that's unquestionably a good thing honestly
I wouldn't use IA as a primary place to store my blog posts though, and I'd like to collect them somewhere within reach
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@petterroea @catsalad @internetarchive I'd never abuse the Archive that way.
I'm probably going to reflect a selection of my Cohost posts on my own website in the near future, though.
I managed to break Google TTS in a similar manner with a very long string of '88888888' on repeat, and had some fun making an ambient phonepunk spooky track out of it.
You should see: https://web.archive.org/web/20250106181512/https://cohost.org/sirocyl/post/5201099-i-broke-google-tts
Content notice: Spooky audio, some possibly annoying binaural telephone noises. Mixed for stereo separation. Listen through headphones or a good room-size stereo monitor. Using psychoactive substances while listening is not a good idea whatsoever. I take no responsibility for you having such a bad trip. I uh, put the transcript of the call from "I broke IKEA" into Google TTS, including all the 8's I cut out from that audio (it was 2:24 before editing, just for comparison.) I was fighting with the API sometimes, it would 400 out because my "sentences" were "too long" or "produced too much audio", lol. Got some fun results, so I threw this together. Hope it turned out alright. Thanks to this post for the idea: https://cohost.org/SnepShark/post/5195186-real-i-broke-ikea [https://cohost.org/SnepShark/post/5195186-real-i-broke-ikea] For a transcript, see the original post, "I broke IKEA." [https://cohost.org/sirocyl/post/2891449-i-broke-ikea]
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